574 DREADFULLY RELIGIOUS. 



Arabs themselves greatly perplexed. The whole country was 

 in confusion. Casembe and Chikumbi had joined their forces 

 against the Arabs, and the Wanyamwezi, whom they classed as 

 Arabs ; and these foreigners were arranging to quit the coun- 

 try. It was clear that in this disturbed state of affairs so small 

 a party as Dr. Livingstone's could not hope to pass through the 

 country, and he could only wait until all went. While they 

 were waiting, Bin Omar, a Suaheli, came from the Chambeze, 

 and the two traders united their forces and began their retreat 

 northward, in company with about four hundred Wanyamwezi. 

 And with this party Dr. Livingstone's destiny was cast for the 

 time, and with them he reached Kabwabwati on 22d October. 

 He had spent many years in Africa, but never had endured in 

 six months so many annoyances, or faced so many dangers. In 

 compensation for these perils and troubles he had succeeded in 

 forming the connecting link between his central and more 

 southern travels by mingling again with the subjects of Mati- 

 amvo, whom we remember as the paramount chief of the 

 Balonda, and he had satisfied himself about the continuity of 

 the chain of waters from the Losanzwe range, which forms the 

 watershed south of Lake Tanganyika, extending southwest- 

 ward, first, with the Chambeze into Lake Bangweolo, thence 

 northward in the Luapula (which he named Webb's river for 

 his old friend in England), on into the Lake Moero, and away 

 northward in the Lualofu again; thus fixing, as he fondly be- 

 lieved, the sources from which he would ultimately be able to 

 descend into the great mysterious Nile, victorious over all its 

 windings. We cannot imagine, therefore, that he regretted the 

 journey, even at so great a cost of time and comfort and abso- 

 lute vitality. But his trials were not ended at Kabwabwati. 

 The men, with whom the gradual loss of his own followers and 

 the expenditure of all his goods had finally left him an involun- 

 tary associate, were far from being such specimens of humanity 

 as he would have selected. They were specimen Arab traders, 

 investing their cloth and beads in ivory and slaves. Trading 

 when they could, seizing what they dared, and fighting when 

 they must. Dreadfully religious, but seeming to find nothing 

 in their creed but covetousness, and making their confessions 

 only at the bar of self-interest. Life with them was giving the 



