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May, Beginning to grow anxious respecting Murphy, I sent back 



^^'^^- several small parties to try and obtain news of him, and at 

 length, on the 20th of May, I received a letter from him dated 

 at Mohali, on the 16th. He there stated that both he and Mof- 

 fat had suffered from several attacks of fever, and Moffat was 

 very ill indeed. 



Some days elapsing without hearing any thing further, I 

 again endeavored to communicate with him, and then received 

 a report from an up caravan that he was about to cross the 

 Makata. 



On the 26th, a caravan hove in siglit, headed by a white man 



riding a donkey ; but only that one white man could be seen 



among the crowd of dusky figures by which he was surrounded. 



" Where is the other ?" was the simultaneous ejaculation of 



Dillon and myself, and " Who is the missing one V 



As the party approached nearer, we became still more anx- 

 ious ; and at last, unable longer to bear the suspense, I limped 

 down the hill to meet it. 



I then recognized Murphy, and to my question, "Where is 

 Moffat *" the answer was, " Dead !" 



"How? when? where?" was quickly asked, and then the sad 

 tale was told of his having fallen a victim to the climate at a 

 camp about a couple of hours' march from Simbo. 



His remains rest beneath a tall palm-tree at the commence- 

 ment of the Makata plain. His name is added to that glorious 

 roll of those who have sacrificed their lives in the cause of 

 African discovery. Mackenzie, Tinne, Mungo Park, Yan der 

 Decken, Thornton, are a few of that noble company in which, 

 too — though we did not know it at that time — the name of his 

 uncle, Livingstone, holds a most distinguished place. 



Poor boy ! He came to Bagamoyo so full of hope and as- 

 pirations for the future, and had told me that the day he re- 

 ceived permission to join the expedition was the happiest of 

 his life. 



Murphy's entire party did not come up until the following 

 day, when they arrived in charge of Issa. Immediately tliey 

 were settled in camp, I numbered and served out the loads, 

 making a list of the contents of each, so that it might be possi- 

 ble to find at once any thing that was required. 



