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successfully, and on December llth Livingstone, in company 

 with the Arabs and their strings of wretched slaves, yoked 

 together in heavy slave-sticks, started for Ujiji. It was with 

 great disgust and humiliation that he marched with such a motley 

 crowd, but self-preservation compelled him to, for had he under- 

 taken to go alone he would certainly have fallen a victim to the 

 furious hordes which swarmed and plundered the country. For- 

 tunately, no more enemies appeared to impede the march, but 

 owing to stoppages on account of escaping slaves, which the 

 Arabs always tried to recapture, though nearly always in vain, 

 the journey was a slow one. Many streams had to be waded, 

 and this, with the worry and lack of rest, brought the fever back 

 again on Livingstone. 



On New Year's day the party came to the Lof uko river, which 

 they crossed by wading waist deep ; this exposure, in his already 

 enfeebled condition, caused such severe illness that Livingstone 

 was unable to march any further. He was attacked by pneumonia 

 in the right lung, and soon his brain became so affected that he 

 lost count of the days of the week and month. In his delirium 

 he fancied himself lying dead on the road to Ujiji. The Arabs 

 were very kind, however, and carried him for sixteen days, until 

 they arrived at Tanganika Lake. Here arrangements were at 

 once made for transporting him by canoe to Ujiji, on the east 

 side of the lake, more than one hundred miles north of the point 

 where he now lay. 



The lake air, and some medicine administered by the Arabs, 

 revived him, and when, on February 27, 1869, he embarked for 

 Ujiji, he was able to sit up and eat a little gruel. High winds on 

 the lake proved a serious obstacle, sometimes days being spent 

 ashore on account of dangerous waves, so that it was not until 

 March 14th that Ujiji was reached. 



Great was his disappointment to find that only a small part of 

 the goods which he had ordered sent from Zanzibar had reached 

 Ujiji, the most having been stolen by the Arab who was commis- 

 sioned to bring them. This was a sad blow, at a time, too, when 

 his bodily infirmities were so great that he had to be assisted to 

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