The Last Journals of David Livingstone Volume I

After a passage of twentythree days from Bombay we arrived at this island in the Thule, which was one of Captain Sherard Osborne's late Chinese fleet, and now a present from the Bombay Government to the Sultan of Zanzibar. I was honoured with the commission to make the formal presentation, and this was intended by H.E. the GovernorinCouncil to show in how much estimation I was held, and thereby induce the Sultan to forward my enterprise.