j!l6 LIVINGSTONE'S LAST JOURNEV. 



shadovv of the Victoria Nyanza, drawn from native report, and it 

 was joined to the long "chanter" of Tanganyika as actually seen by 

 Burton's party. Livingstone was strongly convinced that the outlet 

 of the lake would be found at the extreme northern end, and that 

 its waters went to reinforce the Nile. 



Seeing, however, is believing; and from Ujiji he set out in com- 

 pany with Stanley to discover the "connecting link." The voyage 

 was not without its dangers and excitements. The dw^ellers on the 

 lake shores showed themselves several times to be hostile. A^ one 

 place they shouted to the boatmen to land, and rushed along the 

 shore, slinging stones at the strangers, one of the missiles actually 

 striking the craft. 



AVhen night fell, and the crew disembarked to cook their supper 

 and to sleep under the lee of a high crag, the natives came crowding 

 around, telling them with a show of much friendliness to rest 

 securely, as no one would harm them. The doctor was too old a 

 bird to be caught by such chaff. The baggage was stowed on board, 

 ready for a start, and a strict watch was kept. Well into the night, 

 dusky forms w^ere noticed dodging from rock to rock, and creeping 

 up towards the fires; so, getting quietly on board, the party pulled 

 out into the lake, and the skulking enemy rushed out upon the strand, 

 howling furiously at being balked of their prey. 



AN IMPORTANT DISCOVERY. 



The first geographical surprise was met with a little beyond 

 the turning-point of Burton and Speke. These latter investigators 

 coasted the lake until, as they thought, they saw its two bounding 

 ranges meet, and there they drew the extremity of Tanganyika, and 

 returned. This appearance, however, was found by Livingstone 

 and Stanley to be caused by a high promontory which juts out from 

 the western shore overlapping the mountains on the east. Beyond 

 this narrow strait Tanganyika again opens up, and stretches on for 

 sixty miles further, overhung by mountains rising to a height of 

 seven thousand feet above sea-level, and some four thousand three 

 hundred feet above the surface of the lake. At last the actual 

 extremity of the long trough-like body of water came in view. 



