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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 work-

shops, 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