[3] This route would be through Masai Land.
[4] See Appendix for full statement of Receipts and Expenditure.
[5] We consequently bade the tailor make long pantaloons, and they were quite six inches too long.
[6] Seyyid Barghash died six months later.
[7] She arrived on the 14th of August. Had been detained a few days by running on a snag.
[8] Tippu-Tib's 600 carriers.
[9] Was he very unfortunate? I paid Ugarrowwa for thirteen months' board, sent him to Stanley Falls, thence down the Congo and by sea to Madeira, viâ the Cape to Zanzibar, where he arrived in a state well described by "as fat as butter."
[10] In November, 1887, Emin Pasha wrote to his friend Dr. Felkin: "All well; on best terms with chiefs and people; will be leaving shortly for Kibiro, on east coast of Lake Albert. Have sent reconnoitering party to look out for Stanley, which had to return with no news yet. Stanley expected about December 15th (1887)." We arrived on the 14th.
[11] Seventy-nine miles one way, and eighty-four miles by another way.
[12] When, after reaching Zanzibar, I read Emin Pasha's letter to the Editor of Petermann's 'Mitteilungen' (see No. 4 of the 'Gotha Geog. Journal'), dated 25th March, 1888 (the same date that the above letter was written), which concluded with the significant words: "If Stanley does not come soon, we are lost," most curious thoughts came into my mind which the intelligent reader will find no difficulty in guessing. Happily, however, the Pasha kept his own secret until I was far away from Bagamoyo, and I was unable to inquire from him personally what were his motives for not coming to Kavalli, December 14th, 1887, the date he expected us; for remaining silent two months and a half in his own stations after that date, and then writing two such letters as the one above and that to Petermann's Magazine on the same date.