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nected with the dead. Chitambo must be kept in 

 ignorance of what had happened, otherwise a ruinous 

 fine would be sure to be inflicted on them. The secret 

 however oozed out, but happily the chief was reasonable. 

 Susi and Chuma, the old attendants of Livingstone, 

 became now the leaders of the company, and they fulfilled 

 their task right nobly. The interesting narrative of Mr. 

 Waller at the end of the Last Journals tells us how 

 calmly yet efficiently they set to work. Arrangements 

 were made for drying and embalming the body, after 

 removing and burying the heart and other viscera. For 

 fourteen days the body was dried in the sun. After 

 being wrapped in calico, and the legs bent inwards at the 

 knees, it was enclosed in a large piece of bark from a 

 Myonga tree in the form of a cylinder ; over this a piece 

 of sail-cloth was sewed ; and the package was lashed to a 

 pole, so as to be carried by two men. Jacob Wainwright 

 carved an inscription on the Mvula tree under which the 

 body had rested, and where the heart was buried, and 

 Chitambo was charged to keep the grass cleared away, 

 and to protect two posts and a cross piece which they 

 erected to mark the spot. 



They then set out on their homeward march. It was 

 a serious journey, for the terrible exposure had affected 

 the health of most of them, and many had to lie down 

 through sickness. The tribes through which they passed 

 were generally friendly, but not always. At one place 

 they had a regular fight. On the whole, their progress 

 was wonderfully quiet and regular. Everywhere they 

 found that the news of the Doctor's death had got before 

 them. At one place they heard that a party of English- 

 men, headed by Dr. Livingstone's son, on their way to 

 relieve his father, had been seen at Bagamoio some months 

 previously. As they approached Unyanyembe, they 

 learned that the party was there, but when Chuma 

 ran on before, he was disappointed to find that Oswell 



