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The caravan was forced to subsist on short rations for two days, 

 until Stanley shot a very large giraffe and some zebras, the flesh 

 of which afforded food until they reached Uganda, where they 

 were hospitably received and generously provided for. After 

 leaving Uganda the slaughter of goats and sheep commenced, 

 and these furnished abundant meat until they arrived at Unyan- 

 yembe. 



THE SEPARATION. 



THEY rested at Unyanyembe until March 18th, when Stanley 

 divided his goods with the Doctor and set out on a hurried march 

 for Zanzibar, where it was arranged that he should enlist a new 

 company and send them back to the Doctor, with such additional 

 supplies and goods as he needed. It was a sad farewell. A 

 strong mutual attachment had sprung up between the two men, 

 alone in the wilderness of Central Africa, and when the time 

 came they found it hard to separate. Stanley was going home, 

 to the comforts and pleasures of civilization, while his friend 

 would again plunge into the dark forests in search of that ignis 

 fatuus, the sources of the Nile. They walked together along the 

 homeward route for some distance ; then Livingstone stopped 

 and held out his hand. The time to part had come. Words 

 stuck fast in the throats of each during that silent, earnest grip 

 of the hands. Livingstone turned his face to the west, and 

 walked slowly back toward Unyanyembe, and descending a gentle 

 slope he disappeared forever from the civilized world, while 

 Stanley thoughtfully and sorrowfully turned his face to the east. 



THE POMP AND CIRCUMSTANCE OF WAR. 



EVERYTHING went well with the returning expedition until the 

 27th, when the village of Kiwyeh, on the borders of Ugog-o, was 

 entered. They had barely encamped when they heard the boom- 

 ing, bellowing war-horns sounding everywhere, and espied mes- 

 sengers darting swiftly in all directions giving the alarm of war. 

 When first informed that the horns were calling the people to 

 arm themselves and prepare for war, Stanley half suspected that 

 an attack was about to be made on the expedition ; but the words 

 " Urugu, warugu " (thief ! thieves I) bandied about, declared 



