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culties, but through all, the nobility of his spirit shines 

 undimmed. To persevere in the line of duty is his only 

 conceivable course. He holds as firmly as ever by the 

 old anchor — " All will turn out right at last." 



When ready they set out, on 26th June. Most of 

 his people failed him ; but nothing daunted, he set off 

 then with only three attendants, Susi, Chuma, and 

 Gardner, to the north-west for the Lualaba. Whenever he 

 comes among Arab traders he finds himself suspected and 

 hated because he is known to condemn their evil deeds. 



The difficulties by the way were terrible. Fallen trees 

 and flooded rivers made marching a perpetual struggle. 

 For the first time, Livingstone's feet failed him. Instead 

 of healing as hitherto, when torn by hard travel, irritat- 

 ing sores fastened upon them, and as he had but three 

 attendants, he had to limp back to Bambarre, which he 

 reached in the middle of July. 



And here he remained in his hut for eighty days, 

 till 10th October, exercising patience, harrowed by the 

 wickedness he could not stop, extracting information 

 from the natives, thinking about the fountains of the 

 Nile, trying to do some good among the people, listening 

 to accounts of soko-hunting, and last, not least, reading 

 his Bible. He did not leave Bambajrre till 1 6th February 

 1871. From what he had seen and what he had heard 

 he was more and more persuaded that he was among the 

 true fountains of the Nile. His reverence for the Bible 

 gave that river a sacred character, and to throw light on 

 its origin seemed a kind of religious act. He admits, 

 however, that he is not quite certain about it, though he 

 does not see how he can be mistaken. He dreams that 

 in his early life Moses may have been in these parts, and 

 if he should only discover any confirmation of sacred 

 history or sacred chronology he would not grudge all the 

 toil and hardship, the pain and hunger, he had undergone. 

 The very spot where the fountains are to be found becomes 



