LIVINGSTONE'S LAST JOURNEY. 



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Arrived at last at Chitambo's, the party found the house their 

 fellow-servants were building still unfinished, and were therefore 

 compelled to lay their master "under the broad eaves of a native 

 hut" for a time. Though the village was then nearly empty, a num- 



CHARMING AWAY EVIL SPIRITS. 



ber of natives soon collected about the litter, to gaze "in silent 

 wonder upon him whose praises had reached them in previous 

 years." 



When the house was ready, our hero's bed was placed inside 

 it, "raised from the floor by sticks and grass;" bales and boxes. 



