CAMERON'S JOURNEY ACROSS AFRICA 36(, 



packet of letters was discovered on the body of one of the robbers who 

 had been killed. 



On the 2d of May a move was made on the westward journey. 

 After crossing the Tanganyika to Kasenge, Cameron marshalled his 

 men for the long land journey before them, and once more he had 

 to endure the old fractiousness and reckless carelessness of his men; 

 the only way of keeping them together was for him to march in the 

 rear of the party, and even then they would very often lie down in* 

 the jungle until he had passed, and so escape his notice. 



The dreaded country of the Manyuema was now entered, and 

 here the men were ordered to march in close ranks, as stragglers 

 would run the danger of being seized, killed and probably eaten by 

 the cannibal savages. Yet, as he went on, Cameron found the natives 

 decidedly -well disposed to him as a fellow-countryman of Livingstone, 

 whose gentle kindness when he passed through this country had not 

 been forgotten by them. After crossing the river Luama, which is a 

 broad tributary of the Lualaba, at last this great river was reached, 

 and Cameron and his men were taken across it in canoes to Nyangwe, 

 an important town and central depot for the traders, on its banks. 



Cameron had intended to follow the river down to the sea by the 

 route which Stanley afterwards took, but the difficulty of obtaining 

 canoes was insuperable. The people would not take cowries ; the only 

 payment that would have satisfied them was slaves, and these of course 

 he had not. Abandoning this plan, therefore, and taking three guides 

 whom Tippu-Tib provided, he struck a southerly course again, in the 

 hope of discovering some mysterious lakes of which he had heard a 

 great deal. This necessary change of plan left to Stanley the work of 

 exploring the greatest of African rivers. 



On the loth of June, after long delays, the journey to the coast 

 was actually commenced, in the company of Alvez, a rascally Arab 

 ivory and slave trader, who was going to Benguella with a troop of 

 seven hundred' slaves, augmented, before leaving the country, to one 

 thousand five hundred; and many sad and horrible sights, which he 

 was powerless to prevent, had to be endured by the heart-sick traveler. 

 Yet the small size to which Cameron's party had been reduced ren- 

 dered it necessary to accompany some large caravan. 



