388 DAVID LIVINGSTONE. [chap. xix. 



in a kind of litter arranged by Mohamad Bogharib — where, 

 with his face poorly protected from the sun, he was 

 jolted up and down and sideways, without medicine or 

 food for an invalid, — made the situation sufficiently trying. 

 His prayer was that he might hold out to Ujiji, where he 

 expected to find medicines and stores, with the rest and 

 shelter so necessary in his circumstances. So ill was he, 

 that he lost count of the days of the week and the month. 

 " I saw myself lying dead in the way to Ujiji, and all the 

 letters I expected there — useless. When I think of. my 

 children, the lines ring through my head perpetually : — 



' I shall look into your faces, 



And listen to what you say ; 

 And be often very near you 



When you think I 'm far away.' " 



On the 26th February 1869 he embarked in a canoe 

 on Tanganyika, and on the 14th March he reached the 

 longed-for Ujiji, on the eastern shore of the lake. To 

 complete his trial, he found that the goods he expected 

 had been made away with in every direction. A few 

 fragments was about all he could find. Medicines, wine, 

 and cheese had been left at Unyanyembe, thirteen days 

 distant. A war was raging on the way, so that they could 

 not be sent for till the communications were restored. 



To obviate as far as possible the recurrence of such a 

 disaster to a new store of goods which he was now asking 

 Dr. Kirk to send him, Livingstone wrote a letter to the 

 Sultan of Zanzibar, 20th April 1869, in which he frankly 

 and cordially acknowledged the benefit he had derived 

 from the letter of recommendation his Highness had 

 given him, and the great kindness of the Arabs, espe- 

 cially Mohamad Bogharib, who had certainly saved his life. 

 Then he complains of the robbery of his goods, chiefly by 

 one Musa bin Salim, one of the people of the Governor 

 of Unyanyembe, who had bought ivory with the price, and 

 another man who had bought a wife. Livingstone does 



