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pany very considerably, so that he was glad to join some 

 Arabian caravans on their way to the west. Their progress, 

 however, was impeded by the opposition of Mirambo, an Af- 

 rican king, who first insisted on levying black-mail upon the 

 caravans, and finally absolutely refused permission to pass. 

 This involved a war with the potentate named, in which the 

 combined forces of Stanley and the Arabs were at first suc- 

 cessful; but, in consequence of an ambush on the part of Mi- 

 rambo, the party was demoralized and put to flight, leaving 

 Stanley ill with a fever, and with only nine attendants. 



Finding so much difficulty in traveling by the route orig- 

 inally contemplated, Stanley made a detour, and, after vari- 

 ous adventures, finally succeeded in reaching Ujiji, where, to 

 his delight, he found Dr. Livingstone, in good health and con- 

 dition, and greatly rejoiced at the meeting. The precise date 

 of the arrival of Stanley at Ujiji is not mentioned in his dis- 

 patches, although he states that on the 16th of October, in 

 company with Livingstone, he left Ujiji, and arrived Novem- 

 ber 2 at Unyanyembe, where they spent twenty-eight days 

 in exploration, returning to Ujiji and passing Christmas day 

 in company, and then leaving again for Unyanyembe on the 

 26th of December, where they arrived after fifty-four days of 

 travel. This journey was for the special purpose of enabling 

 Dr. Livingstone to obtain supplies of goods and provisions, 

 which had been sent him from the British consulate at Zan- 

 zibar, but which had been detained on the way a very unnec- 

 essary length of time. 



Stanley himself, in parting with Livingstone, turned over to 

 him large quantities of material for presents, and also a port- 

 able boat, tools, fire-arms, and ammunition, leaving him on 

 the 14th of March on his return to Zanzibar. He was com- 

 missioned by Dr. Livingstone to forward to him fifty well- 

 armed men to act as soldiers and servants to accompany him 

 on a new expedition that he is organizing, which will occupy 

 about a year and a half, to complete the problems which re- 

 main to be solved before his return. His plan is to proceed 

 to the copper mines of Katanga, then eight days south, to 

 discover the fountains of Herodotus, returning by Katanga 

 to the underground houses of Rua; thence to Lake Kamo- 

 londo, and, after making some explorations in that vicinity, 

 to go back to Lualaba, and by way of Uguhha to Ujiji, and 



