CHAPTER XXVII. 



UJIJI. 



Severe Illness — Thoughts and Memories — Some Good in All — Mohamad Bog- 

 harib's Kindness — Dr. Livingstone too 111 to Walk — Sufferings in being Car- 

 ried — Arrival at Ujiji — Hardships Endured — Disappointment — Goods Stolen — 

 Ujiji — Products of the District — Market-Place — Wajiji's Salutations — Head 

 Ornamentation — Formal Introductions — Tattooing — A Representative Wajiji 

 — Ornaments — Superstition — Superstitious Customs — Refusal to Carry Letters 

 — A Den of Thieves — Thani bin Suellim — Manyuema Country — Religiously 

 Villanous ? — Bambarre — Expert Hunters — The Great Chief— The Covenant 

 of Peace — How Arabs keep Covenants — Mockery of Superstition — "Liliputian 

 Monsters " — A Pygmean Battle — Amazed at Guns — An Elephant Hunt — Un- 

 satisfactory. 



The catalogue of sufferings in 1868 was finished by a dread- 

 ful wetting in the last day, and 1869 found Dr. Livingstone 

 very ill, and facing the Lofuko, thirty yards wide and waist- 

 deep. The experience of delays was too fresh in his mind to 

 allow him to run the risk of seeing this stream rise suddenly 

 out of its banks and spread across the plains, an impassable 

 barrier in his way to Tanganyika, and he resolved to cross im- 

 mediately. Across the river his strength failed more rapidly ; 

 the additional exposure only abetted the disease which had 

 seized him, and he soon sank down with pneumonia. The fever 

 raged, and his mind, no longer clear and free, became the scene 

 of confused thoughts and memories, flitting and flowing vividly 

 and rapidly. The trees about him seemed to be covered with 

 human faces; sometimes the faraway land surrounded him with 

 familiar scenes ; his old friends came about him and his children, 

 and the sad, sweet, prophetic lines were on his lips : 



"I shall look into your faces, 

 And listen to what you say ; 

 And be often very near you, 

 When you think I'm far away." 



Another time he seemed to see a grave, and he thought him- 

 self dead without having reached Ujiji, without having seen the 



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