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the country. It was recorded at great length in a 

 despatch to the Foreign Secretary, and indeed, it became 

 one of the chief causes of the appointment of a Royal 

 Commission to investigate the subject of the African 

 slave-trade, and of the mission of Sir Bartle Frere to 

 Africa to concert measures for bringing it to an end. 



Dugumbe had not been the active perpetrator of the 

 massacre, but he was mixed up with the atrocities that 

 had been committed, and Livingstone could have nothing 

 to do with him. It was a great trial, for, as the Banian 

 men were impracticable, there was nothing for it now but 

 to go back to Ujiji, and try to get other men there with 

 whom he would repeat the attempt to explore the river. 

 For twenty-one months, counting from the period of 

 their engagement, he had fed and clothed these men, 

 all in vain, and' now he had to trudge back forty- 

 five days, a journey equal, with all its turnings and 

 windings, to six hundred miles. Livingstone was ill, and 

 after such an exciting time he would probably have had 

 an attack of fever, but for another ailment to which he 

 had become more especially subject. The intestinal canal 

 had given way, and he was subject to attacks of severe 

 internal haemorrhage, one of which came on him now. 1 It 

 appeared afterwards that had he gone with Dugumbe, 

 he would have been exposed to an assault in force by the 

 Bakuss, as they made an attack on the party and routed 

 them, killing two hundred. If Livingstone had been 

 among them, he might have fallen in this engagement. So 

 again, he saw how present disappointments work for good. 



The journey back to Ujiji, begun 20th July 1871, was 

 a very wretched one. Amid the universal desolation 

 caused by the very wantonness of the marauders, it was 

 impossible for Livingstone to persuade the natives that 

 he did not belong to the same set. Ambushes were 



1 His friends say that for a considerable time before he had been subject to the 

 most grievous pain from hcemorrhoids. His sufferings were often excruciating. 



