ELEPHANT HAUNTS. 



CHAPTER I. 



The Livingstone Search Expedition — Difference of Opinion as to Living- 

 stone's Fate — Extracts from Dr. Kirk's Letters — Inconsistency of 

 Moosa's Story — Boats for the Expedition — My First Adventure — 

 Departure from Southampton — Purchase of a Piano for the 

 Voyage — A Newspaper on Board — Anchor in Table Bay — Heavy 

 Gale — The Expedition ridiculed at Cape Town — Arrival at Simon's 

 Town — A Series of Gales — Off the Bar of the Kongoni River — Na- 

 tives engaged to take the Boats up the Zambesi — Mazura — Shupanga 

 — Mrs. Livingstone's Grave — Senna — Tette — The Nyanza Pangono, 

 or Little Lake — Skianda — Bad Snakes. 



HAVING heard that an Expedition was about to 

 be sent to south-east Africa in search of the 

 great traveller, Dr. Livingstone, whose murder by the 

 Mavite had been reported at the Consulate at Zan- 

 zibar, by the Johanna men who had accompanied 

 Livingstone, when he last started from the east coast 

 with the intention of reaching Lake Tanganyika via 

 the north of Nyassa, I applied to Sir Roderick Mur- 

 chison, Bart., President of the Royal Geographical 

 Society, for the actual command of the parxy. I 

 was, however, late in the field, as a leader had been 

 already chosen, in the person of Mr. E. D. Young, 

 a gunner in the Royal Navy, he having served un- 

 der Livingstone on the Zambesi and Shire Rivers on 



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