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may even yet succeed, and disprove the story given us of his death 

 by the Johanna men. 



" A Banian trader at Bagamayo told me three days ago that he 

 had heard a rumour that some white man had been seen at Uemba ; 

 of this he seemed to have no doubt. To-day he brought a native 

 whom he introduced and left alone with me. I entered into a 

 conversation with him, and led him in an irregular way to give a 

 general account of his journey, without guiding his imagination by 

 any leading questions, determining to meet him again and fill in 

 the details. When I had dismissed him, after my first conversation, 

 it appeared that a ship would sail for Bombay immediately, and, 

 not to lose a chance, Mr. Churchill, the consul, to whom I gave 

 the notes, at once sent all to Bombay, and a request that the 

 substance might be telegraphed to the Foreign Office — viz., that we 

 had now some grounds for believing that a white man resembling 

 Livingstone has been seen to the south of Ujyl. 



" This native, with the rest of the caravan, left Bagamayo, and 

 passed along the usual trade route to Uemba and Marunga, where 

 they remained trading for some time, and again returned to the 

 coast, where, in one of the villages under Marunga, which is a 

 region governed by several chiefs, more or less dependent on one 

 paramount, a white man arrived with a party of thirteen blacks, 

 who spoke Supeli. All had firearms, and six carried double-bar- 

 relled guns. The white man was of moderate height, not stout, 

 dressed in white, and wore a cloth wrapped round the head. He 

 gave the chief a looking-glass, and was offered ivory, which he 

 declined, stating that he was not a trader. He then went north- 

 wards. I do not know that this man can tell much more ; he is a 

 simple carrier who formed part of a caravan, but if we can find the 

 head man of the party, it will be possible, no doubt, then to identify 

 this stranger, who seems to our hopeful imagination so like our long 

 lost friend ; and then only think of the revelation he will have to 

 make to us. 



" It is decided that we go to Bagamayo in two days to make 

 inquiries, but we must do so quietly. The story of a white man 

 having been seen at Ilruwa, to the west of the lake, is a distinct 

 thing 1 from the more definite narrative we now have. But the one 

 adds confirmation to the other, and shows that if it be Livingstone, 

 in whose track we now are, that he has more than half finished his 

 work, and is about to go to the Albert Nyanza. I may mention 

 that there is now no doubt that the white man of whom I wrote 

 formerly, long ago, as having been seen on one of the lakes by an 

 Arab, and who remained on the coast, was a Turk, one of the 

 traders who remained on the coast at Grondokoro, who have been 

 met with in Uganda by Zanzibar merchants. The description fully 

 satisfied me of this, and nothing is more probable. Thus the 

 traders of Egypt and Zanzibar have now met in the interior of 

 Africa. Speke's route has been quickly followed ; how far this has 

 been for the immediate benefit of Africa others may judge. In the 

 end Africa will be overrun with traders in all directions, and then 

 the vast resources of the continent will be shown. 



