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A few more words of good wishes on either side, another and 

 yet another clasp of the hand, and the two heroes parted, Stanley 

 liurrying back with all possible speed to Zanzibar to despatch men 

 and stores for the doctor to Unyanyembe, Livingstone to return 

 to that town to await the means of beginning yet another journey 



to the west. 



It has long been well known that Stanley found the Royal 

 Ceographical Society's Livingstone Search Expedition at Baga- 

 moyo, and that its leader. Lieutenant Dawson, threw up his com- 

 mand on hearing of the success of his predecessor. With the aid 

 of Mr. Oswell Livingstone, the son of the great explorer, the young 

 American, however, quickly organized a caravan, and saw it start 

 for the interior on the 17th of May. 



Somewhat later, the Royal Geographical Society sent out 

 another exploring party, led by Lieutenant Grandy, with orders 

 to ascend the Congo, to complete the survey of that stream, and at 

 the same time to convey succor and comfort to the great traveler, 

 who geographers already began to suspect was upon the upper 

 waters of the Congo, and not of the Nile; but this last expedition 

 utterly failed of success. 



LIVINGSTONE'S LAST LETTER. 



Not until long afterwards was the true sequel of Livingstone's 

 sad and romantic history known in England. In his last letter, 

 one to Mr. Well, Acting American Consul at Zanzibar, dated from 

 Unyanyembe, July 2, 1872, he says: "I have been waiting up here 

 like Simeon Sylites on his pillar, and counting every day, and con- 

 jecturing each step taken by our friend towards the coast, wishing 

 and praying that no sickness might lay him up, no accident befall, 

 and no unlooked-for combinations of circumstances render his kind 

 intentions vain or fruitless." 



The remainder of our narrative is culled from the latter part 

 of Livingstone's journal, brought to Zanzibar with his dead body 

 by his men, and from the accounts of his faithful followers Susi 

 and Chumah, as given in "Livingstone's Last Journals," edited by 

 Dr. Horace Waller. From these combined sources, we learn that 



