448 DA VID LIVINGSTONE. [chap. xxii. 



Livingstone was not among them. Lieutenant Cameron, 

 Dr. Dillon, and Lieutenant Murphy were there, and 

 heard the tidings of the men with deep emotion. 

 Cameron wished them to bury the remains where they 

 were, and not run the risk of conveying them through 

 the Ugogo country ; but the men were inflexible, deter- 

 mined to carry out their first intention. This was not 

 the only interference with these devoted and faithful 

 men. Considering how carefully they had gathered all 

 Livingstone's property, and how conscientiously, at the 

 risk of their lives, they were carrying it to the coast, 

 to transfer it to the British Consul there, it was 

 not warrantable in the new-comers to take the boxes 

 from them, examine their contents, and carry off a 

 part of them. Nor do we think Lieutenant Cameron 

 was entitled to take away the instruments with which 

 all Livingstone's observations had been made for a 

 series of seven years, and use them, though only tem- 

 porarily, for the purposes of his expedition, inasmuch 

 as he thereby made it impossible so to reduce Living- 

 stone's observations as that correct results should be 

 obtained from them. Sir Henry Rawlinson seems not 

 to have adverted to this result of Mr. Cameron's act, 

 in his reference to the matter from the chair of the Geo- 

 graphical Society. 



On leaving Unyanyembe the party were joined by 

 Lieutenant Murphy, not much to the promotion of unity 

 of action or harmonious feeling. At Kasekera a spirit of 

 opposition was shown by the inhabitants, and a ruse was 

 resorted to so as to throw them off their guard. It was 

 resolved to pack the remains in such form that when 

 wrapped in calico they should appear like an ordinary 

 bale of merchandise. A fagot of mapira stalks, cut into 

 lengths of about six feet, was then swathed in cloth, to 

 imitate a dead body about to be buried. This was sent 

 back along the way to Unyanyembe, as if the party had 



