The Pasha then asked if we could “in our conscience acquit him of having abandoned his people,” supposing they had not arrived by the 10th of April. We replied, “Most certainly.”
March 27th.—The couriers have left to embark for Wadelai.
They bore the following:
Notice to Selim Bey and the Rebel Officers.
Camp at Kavalli,
March 26th, 1889.
“Salaams,—The Commander of the Relief Expedition having promised to grant a reasonable time for the arrival of such people at this camp as were desirous to quit the country, notifies Selim Bey and his brother officers that this is the 30th day since they departed from the Nyanza Camp for Wadelai to assemble their people.
“The ‘reasonable time’ promised to them has expired to-day.
“However, as the Pasha has requested an extension of time, it is hereby notified to all concerned that the Expedition will make a further halt at this camp of fourteen days from this date, or, in other words, that the Expedition will positively commence the march toward Zanzibar on the morning of the Tenth of April next. All those people not arriving by that date must abide the consequences of their absence on the day of our departure.
“Henry M. Stanley.”
Notice to Shukri Agha, Commanding Mswa.