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the Lualaba. This leads to weeks and months of weary 

 waiting, and yet all in vain ; but afterwards he finds 

 some consolation on discovering that the navigation was 

 perilous, that a canoe had been lost from the inexperience 

 of her crew in the rapids, so that had he been there, 

 he should very likely have perished, as his canoe would 

 probably have been foremost. 



A change of plan was necessary. On 5 th July he 

 offered to Dugumbe £400, with all the goods he had 

 at Ujiji besides, for men to replace the Banian slaves, 

 and for the other means of going up the Lomame to 

 Katanga, then returning and going up Tanganyika to 

 Ujiji. Dugumbe took a little time to consult his friends 

 before replying to the offer. 



Meanwhile an event occurred of unprecedented horror, 

 that showed Livingstone that he could not go to Lomame 

 in the company of Dugumbe. Between Dugumbe's 

 people and another chief a frightful system of pillage, 

 murder, and burning of villages was going on with 

 horrible activity. One bright summer morning, 15 th 

 July, when fifteen hundred people, chiefly women, were 

 engaged peacefully in marketing in a village on the banks 

 of the Lualaba, and while Dr. Livingstone was sauntering 

 about, a murderous fire was opened on the people, and a 

 massacre ensued of such measureless atrocity that he 

 could describe it only by saying that it gave him the 

 impression of being in hell. The event was so superla- 

 tively horrible, and had such an overwhelming influence 

 on Livingstone, that we copy at full length the descrip- 

 tion of it given in the Last Journals : — 



" Before I had got thirty yards out, the discharge of two guns in 

 the middle of the crowd told me that slaughter had begun : crowds 

 dashed off from the place, and threw down their wares in confusion, 

 and ran. At the same time that the three opened fire on the mass of 

 people near the upper end of the market-place, volleys were discharged 

 from a party down near the creek on the panic-stricken women, who 

 dashed at the canoes. These, some fifty or more, were jammed in the 



