216 LIVINGSTONE'S LAST JOURNEY. 



in June, just four months after the departure of Stanley, Sangara, 

 one of his men, arrived at Unyanyembe with the news that the 

 new caravan was at Ugogo, and that on the 14th of August in the 

 same year the men actually arrived. 



Livingstone's servants now numbered some sixty in all, and 

 included the well-known John and Jacob Wainwright; two highly- 

 trained Nassick men, sent from Bombay to join Lieutenant Dawson, 

 who, with their fellow-countrymen Mabruki and Gardner, enlisted 

 in 1860; and Susi, Chumah, and Amoda, three of the men who 

 joined Livingstone on the Zambesi in 1864, and now formed a kind 

 of body-guard, protecting their master in every peril in life, and 

 guarding his body in death with equally untiring devotion. 



WITHOUT FOOD FOR EIGHT DAYS. 



On the 25th of August, 1872, the start for the south-west was 

 at last made, and after daily records in the journal of arduous 

 ascents of mountains, weary tramps through flat forests, difficulties 

 in obtaining food, in controlling men, etc., we come on the 19th of 

 September to a significant entry, to the effect that our hero's old 

 enemy, dysentery, was upon him. He had eaten nothing for eight 

 days, yet he pressed on without pause until the 8th of October, when 

 he sighted the eastern shores of Tanganyika. 



Then ensued a halt of a couple of days, when, turning due 

 south, the course led first along a range of hills overlooking the lake, 

 and then across several bays in the mountainous district of Fipa, 

 till late in October a very large arm of Tanganyika was rounded. 

 The lake was then left, and a detour made to. the east, bringing the 

 party in November to the important town known as Zombe's, built 

 in such a manner that the river Halocheche, on its way to Tangan- 

 yika, runs right through it. 



At Zombe's a western course was resumed, and passing on 

 through heavy rains, and over first one and then another tributary 

 of the lake, our hero turned southwards, a little beyond the most 

 southerly point of Tanganyika, to press on in the same direction, 

 though again suffering terribly from dysentery, until November, 

 when he once more set his face westwards, arriving in December 



