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of boat life. Then I called Kachéché, the detective, and told him to ascertain 
the names of those young men who were accustomed to sea life, upon which 
Kachéché informed me that the young guides first selected by me at Baga- 
moyo were the sailors of the Expedition. After reflecting upon the capacities 
of the younger men, as they had developed themselves on the road, I made » 
list of ten sailors and a steersman, to whose fidelity I was grilling to ent>aist 
myself and fortunes while coasting round the Victorian Sea. 
Accordingly, after drawing up instructions for Frank Pocock and Fred 
Barker on about a score of matters concerning the wellbeing of the Expedition 
during my absence, and enlisting for them, by an adequate gift, the goodwill 
of Sungoro and Prince Kaduma, I set sail on the 8th of March 1875, eastward 
along the shores of the broad arm of the lake which we first sighted, and 
which henceforward is known, in honour of its first discoverer, as “ Speke 
Gulf.”