126 REPORT—1868. 
where Livingstone’s course was now directed, is over 700 miles, and by a letter 
received from himself, dated Bemba, lst February, 1867, and brought to Zanzibar 
by traders, we know of his safety up to that date; he had then 400 miles to travel 
before reaching Ujiji, which he expected to doin June. He described in this 
letter the hardships he and his seven natives had suffered from hunger, the loss of 
his medicines, which was a real loss, and, to use is own words, he was little more 
than a bag of bones; still he wrote hopefully and in good spirits, as no one ever 
knew him otherwise, and this is the last positive information we have of 
Livingstone. , 
An ivory trader, who left Ujiji on October 6, 1867, and arrived at Zanzibar early 
in February 1868, reports that Livingstone had not reached that place when he left, 
but that he was expected, and that ten days afterwards he heard from native report 
that he had aoe a few days subsequently ; therefore we have indirect informa- 
tion of his having reached Ujiji about the middle of October 1867. Before we specu- 
late on his subsequent operations we may premise that he would have lost no op- 
portunity of writing to Zanzibar an account of his discoveries up to that time with 
his future intentions, and this is the first information we must look for, and most 
anxiously we do look for it. 
Assuming, however, that he did reach Ujiji during October 1867, he would have 
found there the medicines and other small supplies which were sent him at his own 
request by Dr. Kirk, our consul at Zanzibar; he would also have learned the dis- 
coveries of Sir Samuel Baker, and received his map, by which he would see that he 
knowledge there, and the prospect of its future, I must revert briefly to the past. 
So early as the middle of the sixteenth century the efforts of Englishmen were — 
directed to the discovery of a passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific by the north, 
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