224 LIVINGSTONE'S LAST JOURNEY. 



one of the latter serving as a table, were arranged at one end ; a fire 

 was lighted outside, nearly opposite the door ; and Livingstone was 

 tenderly and reverently carried from his temporary resting-place 

 to that which was to be his last. A boy named Majwara was 

 appointed to sleep inside the house, to attend to the patient's wants. 



Chitambo came early in the morning to pay his respects to his 

 guest, but Livingstone was too ill to attend to him, and begged him 

 "to call again on the morrow, when he hoped to have more strength 

 to talk to him." In the afternoon the doctor asked Susi to bring 

 him his watch, and showed him how to hold it in the palm of his 

 hand, whilst he himself moved the key. The rest of the day passed 

 without incident, and in the evening the men not on duty silently 

 repaired to their huts, whilst those whose turn it was to watch sat 

 round their fires, w^aiting for the end which they felt to be rapidly 

 approaching. 



At about 1 1 P. M. Livingstone sent for Susi, and loud shouts 

 being at the moment heard in the distance, said to him, "Are our 

 men making that noise?" 



"No," replied Susi, adding that he believed it was only the 

 natives scaring away a buffalo from their durra fields. A few 

 minutes later, Livingstone said slowly, "Is this the Lualaba?" his 

 mind evidently wandering to the great river which had so long 

 been the object of his search. "No," said Susi, "we are in Chit- 

 ambo's village, near the Lulimala." 



THE GREAT HERO'S LAST W^ORDS. 



A long silence ensued, and then the doctor said in Suaheli, an 

 Arab dialect, "How many days is it to the Lualaba?" and Susi 

 answered in the same language, "I think it is ihree days, master." 



A few seconds later, Livingstone exclaimed, "Oh dear! oh 

 dear!" as if in terrible suffering, and then fell asleep. Susi, who 

 then left his master to his repose, was called in about an hour by 

 Majwara, and on reaching the doctor's bedside received instruc- 

 tions to boil some water, for which purpose he went to the fire out- 

 side to fill his kettle. On his return, Livingstone told him to bring 

 his medicine-chest and to hold the candle near him. These instruc- 



