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if anything should go wrong with the engines, what was 

 to be done ? The entire crew of the vessel consisted of 

 four Europeans, namely, Dr. Livingstone — " skipper," one 

 stoker, one carpenter, and one sailor ; seven native 

 Zambesians, who, till they volunteered, had never seen 

 the sea, and two boys, one of whom was Chuma, after- 

 wards his attendant on the last journey. With this 

 somewhat sorry complement, and fourteen tons of coal, 

 Dr. Livingstone set out on 30th April, on a voyage of 

 2500 miles, over an ocean which he had never crossed. 



It was a very perilous enterprise, for he was informed 

 that the breaking- of the monsoon occurred at the end 

 of May or the beginning of June. This, as he came to 

 think, was too early ; but in any case, he would come very 

 near the dangerous time. As he wrote to one of his 

 friends, he felt jammed into a corner, and what could he 

 do ? He believed from the best information he could get 

 that he would reach Bombay in eighteen days. Had 

 any one told him that he would be forty-five days at sea, 

 and that for twenty-five of these his ship would be 

 becalmed, and even when she had a favourable wind 

 would not sail fast, even he would have looked pale at 

 the thought of what was before him. The voyage was 

 certainly a memorable one, and has only escaped fame by 

 the still greater wonders performed by Livingstone on 

 land. 



On the first day of the voyage, he made considerable 

 way, but Collyer, one of his white men, was prostrated by 

 a bilious attack. However, one of the black men speedily 

 learned to steer, and took Dr. Livingstone's place at the 

 wheel. Hardly was Collyer better when Pennell, another 

 of his men, was seized. The chief foes of the ship were 

 currents and calms. Owing to the illness of the men they 

 could not steam, and the sails were almost useless. Even 

 steam, when they got it up, enabled them only to creep. 

 On 20th May, Livingstone, after recording but sixteen 



