CHAPTER XXXII. 



THE MEETING. 



Approaching Each Other — The Spirit of the Man — "A Good Heart" — Ade- 

 quacy of Christian Kindness — Africa for Christ — Effigies of Men — A Lesson 

 Learned — Mistake the Man— The Ambuscade — A Third Deliverance — A Good 

 Omen — Xo Vengeance — The Leopard — Weary and Indifferent — Painful Re- 

 flections— " Little Better than a Skeleton" — Drerdful Disappointment— The 

 Good Samaritan — Mr. Stanley's Caravan — "That 23d Day of October" — Good 

 News — A Forced March — The Tanganyika at Last — The First View of the 

 Lake — Special Charms for Stanley — The Approach — " Good-Morning, Sir" — 

 " Who the Mischief are You?" — The Meeting — The Conversation — The Reve- 

 lation Made — " God Never Failed Him " — The Best Medicine — A Cruise on 

 the Lake — No Outlet Found — " I Must Finish my Task." 



About the time that Mr. Stanley halted his caravan in 

 Mrera Dr. Livingstone landed on the islet Kasenge, in Lake 

 Tanganyika. They "were approaching each other. We re- 

 member how sadly the great traveller turned away his eyes 

 from the river which he believed could in one short month 

 guide him to the Nile. "We left him arranging for his return 

 to Ujiji, where he contemplated one of two evils, as the only 

 thing hopeful which awaited him there : either he must gather 

 followers from the unreliable vagabonds who might be found 

 floating about town, or be willing to wait ten months at least 

 until men could be sent from the coast. But he was not dis- 

 couraged ; the spirit of the man was indomitable, his resolute- 

 ness was astonishing. Far advanced in years, and feeling the 

 weight of age, the victim of various diseases, surrounded by 

 wars, with an experience of years confirming all the apprehen- 

 sions of dangers and want and disappointment which could 

 possibly arise in his thoughts, he calmly contemplated, first re- 

 tracing his steps at least six hundred miles, and then a long and 

 perilous circuitous route, for the purpose of reaching again, out- 

 side of the net of the slavers, the promising thread of discovery 



which he was forced for the time to relinquish. It is absolutely 

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