UGANDA

AND THE EGYPTIAN SOUDAN.

CHAPTEK I.

ZANZIBAR.

Welcome, welcome, ye dark blue waves ! And when you fail my sight, Welcome, ye deserts and ye caves!

My native land Good night

!

Childe Harold.

" LAND HO ! "

sung out the officer of the watch about

eleven o'clock on the morning of June 24, 1876, as

the mail steamer Putidlla was ploughing her way

through the Indian Ocean. All eyes were at once

turned eagerly to the west, where upon the distant

horizon was a dim grey line which was said to be

the island of Zanzibar. Soon the island of Pemba

was sighted, and, as the day wore on, the more

prominent features were gradually made out ; then

the cocoanut palms could be distinguished, and the

white line of surf which marked the coral reefs on

which the ocean billows break their force. An hour

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