the Consulate, his cheery voice ringing the salutation, "Yambo!"
to every one he met; and he had lived at Zanzibar twelve years.

I know another, one of the sturdiest of Scotchmen, a most
pleasant-mannered and unaffected man, sincere in whatever he did
or said, who has lived at Zanzibar several years, subject to the
infructuosities of the business he has been engaged in, as well as
to the calor and ennui of the climate, who yet presents as formidable
a front as ever to the apathetic native of Zanzibar. No man can
charge Capt. H. C. Fraser, formerly of the Indian Navy, with being
apathetic.

I might with ease give evidence of the industry of others, but
they are all my friends, and they are all good. The American,
English, German, and French residents have ever treated me with a
courtesy and kindness I am not disposed to forget. Taken as a
body, it would be hard to find a more generous or hospitable colony
of white men in any part of the world.



CHAPTER III. ORGANIZATION OF THE EXPEDITION.


I 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 much of it could not
be devoted to inquiry and investigation. In a case like this, it
would have been a godsend, I thought, had either of the three
gentlemen, Captains Burton, Speke, or Grant, given some information