 Stanley wrote with some measure of satisfaction when describing how Captain John Hanning Speke, the first European to visit Uganda, had been punched in the teeth for disobedience to Mbarak Bombay, a caravan leader also employed by Stanley, which made Stanley claim that he would never allow Bombay to have the audacity to stand up for a boxing match with him.In the same paragraph, Stanley described how he several months later administered punishment to the African.William Grant Stairs found Stanley during the Emina Pasha expedition to be cruel, secretive and selfish.