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The Life of Captain Sir Richard F. Burton, volume 1 (of 2)

Chapter XIV

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CHAPTER XIV.

OUR REWARD—SUCCESS.

Scenery—In an Arab craft to Ujiji—More Scenery—After twenty-seven days Speke returns—A fight—Are received with honour—A caravan arrives—Geographical remarks—Troublesome following—Forest on fire—He sends Speke to find the Nyanza—The Chief Suna—Richard collects a vocabulary—Speke returns and the differences arose—Richard soliloquizes on Speke's change of front—For geographers—The kindness of Musa Mzuri and Snay bin Amir—Speke's illness—They cross the "Fiery Field"—An official wigging—Christmas Day, 1858—Speke leaves Richard ill, but apparently friendly.

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