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 VOL. I. B