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On the loth of November, 1871, a well-equipped caravan entered 

 Ujiji to the usual accompaniment of gun-firing, shouting and' singing. 

 Tents, saddles, kettles, and a large bath figured prominently on the 

 heads of the pagazis or carriers. In front of the advancing company 

 the American flag was carried, proclaiming to Livingstone the nation- 

 ality of the new arrival. The caravan was that which was fitted out 

 by Air. Gordon Bennett, of the New York Herald, and the white 

 man in command, who came forward with such emotion to grasp the 

 doctor's hands, was Henry M. Stanley, Welsh by birth and American 

 by adoption, and the traveling correspondent of that enterprising 

 paper. He came with unlimited resources at his back, not only to find 

 Livingstone, but to relieve him as well. 



Owing to a native war which had closed the ordinary caravan 

 route, Stanley had been obliged to leave most of his stores at Unyan- 

 yembe, the great Arab settlement between Ujiji and the east coast, and 

 reach the lake by a circuitous path. It was arranged therefore that 

 he and Livingstone should return together to Unyanyembe, and that 

 the doctor, who in spite of his many sufferings was determined not to 

 go home till he had finished his work, should there receive a sufficient 

 quantity of cloth, beads and stores for his further explorations. While 

 waiting at Ujiji, however, Stanley and he proceeded to the north end 

 of the lake to ascertain, once and for all, if the river Lusizi drained the 

 Tanganyika or merely flowed into it. The latter was found to be the 

 case and' the long-disputed question of the connection of the Tangan- 

 yika with the Victoria Nyanza or the Albert Nyanza was decided in 

 the negative. 



On returning from this discovery Mr. Stanley was prostrated 

 by fever ; and, indeed, throughout the journey to Unyanyembe, which 

 had been postponed for some weeks on account of his illness, he suf- 

 fered more or less from fever, and at times was so weak that he had 

 to be carried on the march. When Unyanyembe was reached — on the 

 1 8th of February, 1872 — Stanley handed over to the doctor a large 

 amount of stores of every description, together with some goods which 

 had been sent to Livingstone from England. The latter included four 

 flannel shirts from his daughter Agnes, and two pairs of good English 

 boots from Horace Waller. These presents were particularly wel- 



