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CHAPTER XXII. 



FROM UNYANYEMBE TO BANGWEOLO. 



A.D. 1872-1873. 



Livingstone's long wait at Unyanyembe — His plan of operations — His fifty-ninth 

 birthday — Renewal of self-dedication — Letters to Agnes— to New York 

 Herald — Hardness of the African battle — Waverings of judgment, whether 

 Lualaba was the Nile or the Congo— Extracts from Journal — Gleams of 

 humour — Natural history — His distress on hearing of the death of Sir 

 Roderick Murchison — Thoughts on mission- work — Arrival of his escort — 

 His happiness in his new men — He starts from Unyanyembe — Illness — Great 

 amount of rain — Near Bangweolo — Incessant moisture — Flowers of the forest 

 — Taking of observations regularly prosecuted — Dreadful state of the country 

 from rain — Hunger — Furious attack of ants — Greatness of Livingstone's 

 sufferings — Letters to Sir Thomas Maclear, Mr. Young, his brother, and Agnes 

 — His sixtieth birthday — Great weakness in April — Sunday services and ob- 

 servations continued — Increasing illness — The end approaching — Last written 

 words — Last day of his travels — He reaches Chitambo's village, in Ilala — Is 

 found on his knees dead, on morning of 1st May — Courage and affection of his 

 attendants — His body embalmed — Carried towards shore — Dangers and suf- 

 ferings during the march — The party meet Lieutenant Cameron at Un- 

 yanyembe — Determine to go on — Ruse at Kasekera — Death of Dr. Dillon — The 

 party reach Bagamoio, and the remains are placed on board a cruiser — The 

 Search Expeditions from England — to East Coast under Cameron — to West 

 Coast under Grandy — Explanation of Expeditions by Sir Henry Rawlinson — 

 Livingstone's remains brought to England — Examined by Sir W. Fergusson and 

 others — Buried in Westminster Abbey — Inscription on slab — Livingstone's 

 wish for a forest grave — Lines from Punch — Tributes to his memory — Sir 

 Bartle Frere — The Lancet— Lord Polwarth — Florence Nightingale. 



When Stanley left Livingstone at Unyanyembe there 

 was nothing for the latter but to wait there until the men 

 should come to him who were to be sent up from Zanzi- 

 bar. Stanley left on the 14th March ; Livingstone calcu- 

 lated that he would reach Zanzibar on the 1st May, that 

 his men would be ready to start about the 22d May, and 

 that they ought to arrive at Unyanyembe on the 10th 

 or 15th July. In reality, Stanley did not reach Baga- 



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