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to explore the Lualaba — Has to return to Bambarre — Letter to Thomas, 

 and retrospect of his life — Letter to Sir Thomas Maclear and Mr. Mann — 

 Miss Tinne — He is worse in health than ever, yet resolves to add to his 

 programme and go round Lake Bangweolo — Letter to Agnes — Review of 

 the past — He sets out anew in a more northerly direction — Overpowered 

 by constant wet — Reaches Nyangwe, the farthest point westward in his 

 last expedition — Long detention — Letter to his brother John — Sense of 

 difficulties and troubles — Nobility of his spirit — He sets off with only three 

 attendants for the Lualaba — Suspicions of the natives — Influence of Arab 

 traders — Frightful difficulties of the way — Lamed by foot-sores — Has to 

 return to Bambarre — Long and wearisome detention — Occupations — - 

 Meditations and reveries — Death no terror — Unparalleled position and 

 trials — He reads his Bible from beginning to end four times — Letter to 

 Sir Thomas Maclear — to Agnes — His delight at her sentiments about his 

 coming home — Account of the soko — Grief to hear of death of Lady 

 Murchison — Wretched character of men sent from Zanzibar — At last sets 

 out with Mohamad — Difficulties — Slave-trade most horrible — Cannot get 

 canoes for Lualaba — Long waiting — New plan — Frustrated by horrible 

 massacre on banks of Lualaba — Frightful scene — He must return to Ujiji 

 — New illness — Perils of journey to Ujiji — Life three times endangered in 

 one day — Beaches Ujiji — Shereef has sold off his goods — He is almost in 

 despair — Meets Henry M. Stanley and is relieved — His contributions to 

 Natural Science during last journeys — Professor Owen in the Quarterly 

 Review, ............. 391 



CHAPTER XXL 



LIVINGSTONE AND STANLEY. 



a.d. 1871-1872. 



Mr. Gordon Bennett sends Stanley in search of Livingstone — Stanley at 

 Zanzibar — Starts for Ujiji — Reaches Unyanyembe — Dangerous illness — 

 War between Arabs and natives — Narrow escape of Stanley — Approach to 

 Ujiji — Meeting with Livingstone — Livingstone's story — Stanley's news — 

 Livingstone's goods and men at Bagamoio — Stanley's account of Living- 

 stone — Refutation of foolish and calumnious charges— They go to the 

 north of the lake — Livingstone resolves not to go home, but to get fresh 

 men and return to the sources — Letter to Agnes — to Sir Thomas Maclear 

 — The travellers go to Unyanyembe — More plundering of stores — Stanley 

 leaves for Zanzibar — Stanley's bitterness of heart at parting — Living- 

 stone's intense gratitude to Stanley — He intrusts his Journal to him, and 

 commissions him to send servants and stores from Zanzibar — Stanley's 

 journey to the coast — Finds Search Expedition at Bagamoio — Proceeds to 

 England — Stanley's reception — Unpleasant feelings — Eclaircissement — 

 England grateful to Stanley, . . . . . . • . .417 



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