Africa
On the sixteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, I was in Madrid, fresh from the carnage at Valencia. At 10 A.M. Jacopo, at No.-- Calle de la Cruz, handed me a telegram: It read, "Come to Paris on important business." The tele...
On the sixteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, I was in Madrid, fresh from the carnage at Valencia. At 10 A.M. Jacopo, at No...
2. Chapter 2On the morning of the 6th January, 1871, we were sailing through the channel that separates the fruitful island of Zanzibar from Africa. The high lands of the continent loomed l...
3. Chapter 3I was totally ignorant of the interior, and it was difficult at first to know, what I needed, in order to take an Expedition into Central Africa. Time was precious, also, and mu...
4. Chapter 4The isle of Zanzibar with its groves of cocoa-nut, mango, clove, and cinnamon, and its sentinel islets of Chumbi and French, with its whitewashed city and jack-fruit odor, with...
5. Chapter 5Leaving Bagamoyo for the interior.--Constructing a Bridge.-- Our first troubles.--Shooting Hippopotami.--A first view of the Game Land.--Anticipating trouble with the Wagogo.--T...
6. Chapter 6A valley of despond, and hot-bed of malaria.--Myriads of vermin.--The Makata swamp.--A sorrowful experience catching a deserter.--A far-embracing prospect.--Illness of William F...
7. Chapter 7Mortality amongst the baggage animals.--The contumacious Wagogo--Mobs of Maenads.--Tribute paying.--Necessity of prudence.--Oration of the guide.--The genuine "Ugogians."-- Vitu...
8. Chapter 8I received a noiseless ovation as I walked side by side with the governor, Sayd bin Salim, towards his tembe in Kwikuru, or the capital. The Wanyamwezi pagazis were out by hundr...
9. Chapter 9It never occurred to the Arab magnates that I had cause of complaint against them, or that I had a right to feel aggrieved at their conduct, for the base desertion of an ally, w...
10. Chapter 10Departure from Unyanyembe.--The expedition reorganized.-- Bombay.--Mr. Shaw returns sick to Unyanyembe.--A noble forest.-The fever described.--Happiness of the camp.--A park-lan...
11. Chapter 11Happy auspices,--Ant-hills.--The water-shed of the Tanganika Lion.--The king of Kasera.--The home of the lion and the leopard.--A donkey frightens a leopard--Sublime scenes in K...
12. Chapter 12"If there is love between us, inconceivably delicious, and profitable will our intercourse be; if not, your time is lost, and you will only annoy me. I shall seem to you stupid,...
13. Chapter 13"I distinctly deny that 'any misleading by my instructions from the Royal Geographical Society as to the position of the White Nile' made me unconscious of the vast importance o...
14. Chapter 14We felt quite at home when we sat down on our black bear-skin, gay Persian carpet and clean new mats, to rest with our backs to the wall, sipping our tea with the air of comfort...
15. Chapter 15Unyanyembe was now to me a terrestrial Paradise. Livingstone was no less happy; he was in comfortable quarters, which were a palace compared to his hut in Ujiji. Our store-rooms...
16. Chapter 16At 5 P.M., on the 7th of May, 1872, the dhow which conveyed my Expedition back to Zanzibar arrived in the harbor, and the men, delighted to find themselves once more so near the...