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ENROUTE FOR ZANZIBAR. 



No journal was kept by Susi or Chuma, so that dates are no 

 longer obtainable, but it was sometime about the middle of May 

 that the party started with the body for Zanzibar. As they 

 traveled northward many of them began to succumb to fever, 

 the malaria having been absorbed into their systems during the 

 marches with Livingstone. Two of the women died, and after 

 journeying a hundred miles the entire party became so ill that a 

 stop of a month was necessary. 



Upon reaching the Luapula river, which they found to be four 

 miles wide at the village of Chisalamalama, one of the donkeys 

 was seized by a lion after breaking down an enclosure in which it 

 was confined. The donkey was killed and dragged into the 

 jungle. At the village of Chawende they had a hard battle with 

 the natives, in which several of the latter were killed and two of 

 the. funeral party wounded, but they did not abandon their 

 precious burden. 



Untold difficulties continually beset the party. Even when 

 proceeding beyond Unyanyembe the natives, hearing the news 

 of Livingstone's death, and the intention of conveying the body to 

 Zanzibar, determined to prevent its passage through the country. 

 They would no doubt have desecrated the remains had not Susi 

 and Churna taken the precaution to hide them in some bales of 

 calico, and then made up an effigy which they sent with as much 

 publicity as possible to be buried at Unyanyembe as Dr. Living- 

 stone. 



After a painful journey of six months the party reached the 

 coast town of Bagamoyo, where the English consul at Zanzibar 

 met them and received the body of Livingstone, which was sent 

 to England and buried with appropriate honors in Westminster 



Abbey. 



LIVINGSTONE'S GREATNESS. 



WE have now followed Dr. Livingstone throughout his three 



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journeys in Africa, not with perfect satisfaction, however, 

 because he was prevented from completing his purposes, and the 

 record of his travels is somewhat like an incomplete story; 



