370 DAVID LIVINGSTONE. [chap. xix. 



CHAPTEE XIX. 



FROM ZANZIBAR TO UJIJI. 



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 altogether satisfactory station for com- 

 merce 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 Roderick 

 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 — Eeflections 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 Bangweolo 

 — 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 

 Unyanyembe — Letter to Sultan of Zanzibar — Letters to Dr. Moffat and his 

 daughter. 



On the 19 th of March, fortified by a firman from the 

 Sultan to all his people, and praying the Most High to 

 prosper him, "by granting him influence in the eyes of 

 the heathen, and blessing his intercourse with them," 

 Livingstone left Zanzibar in H.M.S. "Penguin" for the 

 mouth of the Rovuma. His company consisted of 

 thirteen Sepoys, ten Johanna men, nine Nassick boys, 

 two Shupanga men, and two Waiyau. Musa, one of the 

 Johanna men, had been a sailor in the "Lady Nyassa;" 

 Susi and Amoda, the Shupanga men, had been wood- 



