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sweet, for she said that she saw he was hungry. Seeing that he 

 did not eat for fear of the leprosy, she kindly pressed him : 

 "Eat; you are weak only from hunger; this will strengthen 

 you." He put it out of her sight, and blessed her motherly 

 heart. 



February 3d Livingstone made the following memoranda ; 

 "Caught in a drenching rain, which made me fain to sit, 

 exhausted as I was, under an umbrella for an hour trying to keep 

 the trunk dry. As I sat in the rain, a little tree-frog, about half 

 an inch long, leaped on to a grassy leaf, and began a tune as loud 

 as that of many birds, and very sweet ; it was surprising to hear 

 so much music out of so small a musician." 



After a rest of eight days, during which time he used water 

 only that had been boiled, and lived principally upon a species of 

 potatoes called nyumbo, much famed among the natives as a 

 restorative, Livingstone found his health very much improved. 

 The village in which he was resting was on the banks of a con- 

 fluent of the Lualaba, which abounded with fish ; among the sev- 

 eral species is one called mamba, which has breasts with milk, 

 and which utters a peculiar cry. Its flesh is very white and 

 savory. While here an elephant was killed which had three 

 tusks, all of good size ; the third tusk grew out from the base of 

 the trunk, midway between the other two. 



On June 26th Livingstone resolved to start again for the Lu- 

 alaba river by a northwest route, although he had been deserted 

 by all but three of his followers, Chuma, Susi and Gardner. 

 His purpose was accelerated by the fact that the Arabs had made 

 war on the Manyuema people, ostensibly on account of a string 

 of beads which had been stolen, but really because they could 

 not trade their men slaves for ivory ; forty of the natives had 

 been killed and several villages burned. Knowing that general 

 hostilities would follow, Livingstone decided that Arabs were 

 bad companions, and that he would be safer alone than with 

 them. But for once he made a mistake. After traveling several 

 days, wading rivers breast and neck deep, through awful beds of 

 mud, over fallen trees and through dense brush, he discoverd 



