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moio till the 6th May, the men were sent off about the 

 25th, and they reached Unyanyembe about the 9th 

 August. A month more than had been counted on had 

 to be spent at Unyanyembe, and this delay was all the 

 more trying because it brought the traveller nearer to 

 the rainy season. 



The intention of Dr. Livingstone, when the men 

 should come, was to strike south by Ufipa, go round 

 Tanganyika, then cross the Chambeze, and bear away 

 along the southern shore of Bangweolo, straight west to 

 the ancient fountains ; from them in eight days to 

 Katanga copper mines ; from Katanga, in ten days, north- 

 east to the great underground excavations, and back 

 again to Katanga ; from which n.n.w. twelve days to the 

 head of Lake Lincoln. " There I hope devoutly," he 

 writes to his daughter, " to thank the Lord of all, and 

 turn my face along Lake Kamolondo, and over Lualaba, 

 Tanganyika, Ujiji, and home." 



His stay at Unyanyembe was a somewhat dreary one ; 

 there was little to do and little to interest him. Five 

 days after Stanley left him occurred his fifty-ninth birth- 

 day. How his soul was exercised appears from the renewal 

 of his self-dedication recorded in his Journal : — 



u \Wi March, Birthday. ^-My Jesus, my King, my Life, my All; 

 I again dedicate my whole self to Thee. Accept me, and grant, 

 gracious Father, that ere this year is gone I may finish my task. In 

 Jesus' name I ask it. Amen. So let it be. 



" David Livingstone." 



Frequent letters were written to his daughter from 

 Unyanyembe, and they dwelt a good deal upon his 

 difficulties, the treacherous way in which he had been 

 treated, and the indescribable toil and suffering which 

 had been the result. He said that in complaining to Dr. 

 Kirk of the men whom he had employed, and the dis- 

 graceful use they had made of his (Kirk's) name, he never 

 meant to charge him with being the author of their 



