i S66-69.] FROM ZANZIBAR TO UJIJI. 383 



Moero, believing that there the question of the watershed 

 would be decided. At Chitimba's, he is detained upwards 

 of three months, in consequence of the disturbed state 

 of the country. At last he gets the escort of some Arab 

 traders, who show him much kindness, but again he is 

 prostrated by illness, and at length he reaches Lake 

 Moero, 8th November 1867. He hears of another lake, 

 called Bembo or Bangweolo, and to hear of it is to resolve 

 to see it. But he is terribly wearied with two years' 

 travelling without having heard from home, and he thinks 

 he must first go to Ujiji, for letters and stores. Mean- 

 while, as the traders are going to Casembe's, he accom- 

 panies them thither. Casembe he finds to be a fierce 

 chief, who rules his people with great tyranny, cutting 

 off their ears, and even their hands, for the most trivial 

 offences. Persons so mutilated, seen in his village, 

 excite a feeling of horror. This chief was not one easily 

 got at, but Livingstone believed that he gained an 

 influence with him, only he could not quite overcome 

 his prejudice against him. The year 1867 ended with 

 another severe attack of illness. 



" The chief interest in Lake Moero," says Livingstone, " is that it 

 forms one of a chain of lakes, connected by a river some 500 miles 

 in length. First of all, the Chambeze rises in the country of Mambwe, 

 N.E. of Molemba ; it then flows south-west and west, till it reaches lat. 

 11° S., and long. 29° E., where it forms Lake Bemba or Bangweolo; 

 emerging thence, it assumes the name of Luapula, and comes down 

 here to fall into Moero. On going out of this lake it is known by the 

 name of Lualaba, as it flows N.w. in Eua to form another lake with 

 many islands, called Urenge or Ulenge. Beyond this, information is not 

 positive as to whether it enters Lake Tanganyika, or another lake be- 

 yond that. . . . Since coming to Casembe's, the testimony of natives 

 and Arabs has been so united and consistent, that I am but ten days 

 from Lake Bemba or Bangweolo, that I cannot doubt its accuracy." 



The detentions experienced in 1867 were long and 

 wearisome, and Livingstone disliked them because he was 

 never well when doing nothing. His light reading must 

 have been pretty well exhausted ; even Smith's Dictionary 



