556 TURNING TOWARD UJIJI. 



and did not know that I was walking on water till I saw them 

 in the maps." 



The letter breaks of here abruptly. In reading it how we 

 are tempted to lament the dispensation which called him from 

 earth before he had been allowed to present to the world from 

 his own pen the connected story of this great expedition. 



After spending a month in his town the doctor said good-bye 

 to Casembe, and set out on the 22d of December, in company 

 with Mohamad bin Saleh, for Ujiji. Making several days 

 journey from Casembe, the party halted at a little village called 

 Kabukwa, on a parallel with a large island in the lake called 

 Kirwa. It was the last day of the year, and the great man 

 looked wearily before him, oppressed with the uncertainty of 

 his living to read the letters he hoped to find at Ujiji; he was 

 sick too. His only food for some time had been coarsely ground 

 sorghum meal. How natural it was for him to make this little 

 note in his journal : 



" Mohamad presented a meal of finely ground porridge, and 

 a fowl, and I immediately felt the difference, though I was not 

 grumbling at my coarse dishes." 



