370 THE WORLD'S WONDERS. 



rise from his bed ; yet so infinite was his patience and so strong 

 his courage, that he mentions the fact only as a passing event, 

 and hopes on. 



Ujiji is an Arab settlement, and Livingstone naturally expected, 

 in view of the letter which he carried from the Sultan at Zanzi- 

 bar, to receive every attention becoming his position, but instead, 

 so vicious had been the rule of the governor at this place, that 

 he would allow no one to carry Livingstone's communications to 

 the coast, lest the injustice, brutality, and corruption of his rule 

 might be made public. Anxious to communicate with civilized 

 people, he wrote forty-two letters while in his enfeebled state, to 

 friends who had not heard from him for years, and entrusted 

 them to an Arab for conveyance to Zanzibar, but not one of 

 these precious missives reached its destination. 



While at Ujiji Livingstone conceived the idea that the Tan- 

 ganika was rather the expansion of a river than a lake, an opin- 

 ion which he formed by observing that there was a current of 

 about one mile per hour flowing northward. This led him to 

 suppose that it was connected with the Nile, and that indeed the 

 large chain of lakes in Central Africa were all connected, and 

 that the Nile derived its waters from them all. He therefore 

 determined, as soon as he was able, to explore the region around 

 Lake Tanganika, going as far south as Lake Bangweolo, and 

 westward into the Manyuema country, to ascertain if the large 

 river on that side of Lake Tanganika was the Nile or the Congo. 

 He sent again to Zanzibar for men and supplies, with little hope, 

 however, of receiving them. 



A JOURNEY INTO THE MANYUEMA COUNTRY. 



ALTHOUGH still weak and much reduced in flesh, on the 12th 

 of July he procured a boat and some rowers, also several carriers, 

 and crossing Lake Tanganika landed at Kasinge, in pursuance 

 of his intention to visit the Manyuema country, about two hundred 

 miles northwest of Ujiji. This was an unexplored district, not 

 even the Arab traders having ever visited it, chiefly because the 

 people were reputed to be cannibals. Some Arab traders became 

 so much interested in the proposed trip, that they decided also 



