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an appointment — Sets out for Zanzibar in "Thule " — Letter to Mr. James 

 Young — His experience at sea — Letter to Agnes — He reaches Zanzibar — 

 Calls on Sultan — Presents the "Thule " to him from Bombay Government 

 — Monotony of Zanzibar life — Leaves in "Penguin" for the continent, . 358 



CHAPTER XIX. 



FROM ZANZIBAR TO UJIJ1. 



a.d. 1866-1869. 



Dr. Livingstone goes to mouth of Rovuma — His prayer — His company — His 

 herd of animals — Loss of his buffaloes — Good spirits when setting out — 

 Difficulties at Rovuma — Bad conduct of Johanna men — Dismissal of his 

 Sepoys — Fresh horrors of slave-trade — Uninhabited tract — He reaches 

 Lake Nyassa — Letter to his son Thomas — Disappointed hopes — His 

 double aim, to teach natives and rouse horror of slave-trade — Tenor of 

 religious addresses — Wikatami remains behind — Livingstone finds no alto- 

 gether satisfactory station for commerce and missions — Question of the 

 watershed — Was it worth the trouble ? — Overruled for good to Africa — 

 Opinion of Sir Bartle Frere — At Marenga's — The Johanna men leave in a 

 body — Circulate rumour of his murder — Sir Eoderick disbelieves it — Mr. 

 E. D. Young sent out with Search Expedition — Finds proof against 

 rumour — Livingstone half-starved — Loss of his goats — Review of 1866 — 

 Reflections on Divine Providence — Letter to Thomas — His dog drowned 

 — Loss of his medicine-chest — He feels sentence of death passed on him — 

 First sight of Lake Tanganyika — Detained at Chitimba's — Discovery of 

 Lake Moero — Occupations during detention of 1867 — Great privations and 

 difficulties — Illness — Rebellion among his men — Discovery of Lake Bang- 

 weolo — Its oozy banks — Detention — Sufferings — He makes for Ujiji — Very 

 severe illness in beginning of 1869 — Reaches Ujiji — Finds his goods have 

 been wasted and stolen — Most bitter disappointment — His medicines, etc, 

 at TJnyanyembe — Letter to Sultan of Zanzibar — Letters to Dr. Moffat and 

 his daughter, ............ 370 



CHAPTER XX. 



MANYUEMA. 

 a.d. 1869-1871. 



He sets out to explore Manyuema and the river Lualaba — Loss of forty-two 

 letters — His feebleness through illness — He arrives atBambarre — Becomes 

 acquainted with the soko or gorilla — Reaches the Luama river — Magni- 

 ficence of the country — Repulsiveness of the people — Cannot get a canoe 



