so far as his professions went.. I saw no reason to refuse his
services, and he was accordingly engaged at $300 per annum, to rank
second to William L. Farquhar. Farquhar was a capital navigator
and excellent mathematician; was strong, energetic, and clever.

The next thing I was engaged upon was to enlist, arm, and equip,
a faithful escort of twenty men for the road. Johari, the chief
dragoman of the American Consulate, informed me that he knew where
certain of Speke's "Faithfuls" were yet to be found. The idea had
struck me before, that if I could obtain the services of a few men
acquainted with the ways of white men, and who could induce other
good men to join the expedition I was organizing, I might consider
myself fortunate. More especially had I thought of Seedy Mbarak
Mombay, commonly called "Bombay," who though his head was
"woodeny," and his hands" clumsy," was considered to be the
"faithfulest" of the "Faithfuls."

With the aid of the dragoman Johari, I secured in a few hours the
services of Uledi (Capt. Grant's former valet), Ulimengo, Baruti,
Ambari, Mabruki (Muinyi Mabruki--Bull-headed Mabruki, Capt.
Burton's former unhappy valet)--five of Speke's "Faithfuls." When I
asked them if they were willing to join another white man's
expedition to Ujiji, they replied very readily that they were
willing to join any brother of "Speke's." Dr. John Kirk, Her
Majesty's Consul at Zanzibar, who was present, told them that
though I was no brother of "Speke's," I spoke his language. This
distinction mattered little to them: and I heard them, with great
delight, declare their readiness to go anywhere with me, or do
anything I wished.