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was thrown on them by some of those best qualified to 

 judge. Mr. Edward D. Young, who had had dealings 

 with Musa, and knew him to be a liar, was suspicious of 

 the story ; so was Mr. Horace Waller. Sir Roderick 

 Murchison, too, proclaimed himself an unbeliever, not- 

 withstanding all the circumstantiality and apparent con- 

 clusiveness of the tale. The country was resounding 

 with lamentations, the newspapers were full of obituary 

 notices, but the strong-minded disbelievers were not to 

 be moved. 



Sir Roderick and his friends of the Geographical 

 Society determined to organise a search expedition, and 

 Mr. E. D. Young was requested to undertake the task. 

 In May 1867 all was ready for the departure of the 

 Exj)edition ; and on the 25 th July, Mr. E. D. Young, 

 who was accompanied by Mr. Faulkner, John Reid, and 

 Patrick Buckley, cast anchor at the mouth of the Zambesi. 

 A steel boat named " The Search," and some smaller 

 boats, were speedily launched, and the party were moving 

 up the river. We have no space for an account of Mr. 

 Young's most interesting journey, not even for the detail 

 of that wonderful achievement, the carrying of the pieces 

 of the " Search" past the Murchison Cataracts, and their 

 reconstruction at the top, without a single piece missing. 

 The sum and substance of Mr. Young's story was, that 

 first, quite unexpectedly, he came upon a man near the 

 south end of Lake Nyassa, who had seen Livingstone 

 there, and who described him well, showing that he had 

 not crossed at the north end, as Musa had said, but, for 

 some reason, had come round by the south ; then, the 

 chief Marenga not only told him of Livingstone's stay 

 there, but also of the return of Musa, after leaving him, 

 without any story of his murder ; also, at Mapunda, they 

 came on traces of the boy Wikatani, and learned his 

 story, though they did not see himself. The most ample 

 proof of the falsehood of Musa's story was thus obtained, 



