ZANZIBAR. 23 to a Komish fraternity, and is managed by a number of priests with freres and nuns who teach in the schools, instruct the freed slaves entrusted to them in various trades, and tend the sick. They have a hospital in the town of Zanzibar, and capital workshops, while at Bagamoyo they have a large estate which they have purchased, and where a number of the boys are employed in tilling the ground.

Our party was now all gathered at Zanzibar, and preparations for the start were vigorously pushed on. Our instructions were to establish a station at a place called Mpwapwa, on the western side of the Usagara Mountains, one of our number taking charge of this post while the rest proceeded to the Victoria Lake with the view of taking up stations in the countries of Karagwe and Uganda. It had been suggested by Stanley and others that the Wami river, which rises in the Usagara Mountains, might prove a useful waterway to the interior, and in hopes that this might be so, we were ordered to explore the Wami river, and should it not turn out to be navigable, to try the Kingani, another river which falls into the Indian Ocean opposite to the island of Zanzibar, and which takes its rise from the same district as the Wami. The former of these rivers was explored for a short distance from its mouth by Lieutenant Smith, the leader of our party, and Mr.

Mackay ; and the latter by Mr. Mackay accompanied by Vice-Consul Holmwood, who, during the whole