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Doctor. " The news," says Livingstone, " lie had to tell 

 one who had been two full years without any tidings 

 from Europe made my whole frame thrill. The terrible 

 fate that had befallen France, the telegraphic cables suc- 

 cessfully laid in the Atlantic, the election of General 

 Grant, the death of good Lord Clarendon, my constant 

 friend; the proof that Her Majesty's Government had 

 not forgotten me in voting £1000 for supplies, and many 

 other points of interest, revived emotions that had lain 

 dormant in Manyuema." As Stanley went on, Living- 

 stone kept saying, " You have brought me new life — you 

 have brought me new life." 



There was one piece of news brought by Stanley to 

 Livingstone that was far from satisfactory. At Baga- 

 moio, on the coast, Stanley had found a caravan with 

 supplies for Livingstone that had been despatched from 

 Zanzibar three or four months before, the men in charge 

 of which had been lying idle there all that time on the 

 pretext that they were waiting for carriers. A letter- 

 bag was also lying at Bagamoio, although several 

 caravans for Ujiji had left in the meantime. On hearing 

 that the Consul at Zanzibar, Dr. Kirk, was coming to 

 the neighbourhood to hunt, the party at last made off. 

 Overtaking them at Unyanyembe, Stanley took charge 

 of Livingstone's stores, but was not able to bring them 

 on ; only he compelled the letter-carrier to come on to 

 Ujiji with his bag. At what time, but for Stanley, 

 Livingstone would have got his letters, which after all 

 were a year on the way, he could not have told. For his 

 stores, or such fragments of them as might remain, he 

 had afterwards to trudge all the way to Unyanyembe. 

 His letters conveyed the news that Government had 

 voted a thousand pounds for his relief, and were besides 

 to pay him. a salary. 1 The unpleasant feeling he had had 



1 The intimation of salary was premature. Livingstone got a pension of £300 

 afterwards, which lasted only for a year and a half. 



