"l BECAME WEARY INDIFFERENT." 683 



and in spite of everything." Like them, Dr. Livingstone took 

 it as an omen of good success to crown him yet, for which his 

 faith gave thanks to the "Almighty Preserver of men." 



They had five hours of running the gauntlet, waylaid by 

 spearmen, who all felt that if they killed the doctor they would 

 be revenging the death of relations. From each hole in the 

 tangled mass a spear could be expected ; and each moment they 

 expected to hear the rustle which told of deadly weapons hurled 

 at them. " I became weary," he says, " with the constant strain 

 of danger, and, as I suppose happens with soldiers on the 

 field of battle, not courageous, but perfectly indifferent whether 

 I were killed or not." 



When at last they got out of the forest and crossed the Liya 

 on to the cleared lands near the villages of Monanbundwa, and 

 lay down to rest, they soon saw Muanampunda coming, walking 

 up in a stately manner unarmed to meet them. He had heard 

 the vain firing into the bush, and came to ask what was the 

 matter. Dr. Livingstone explained the mistake that had been 

 made by the assailants in supposing that he was Kolokolo, the 

 deeds of whose men he knew, and then they went on to his 

 village together. 



In the evening the chief sent to say that if the doctor would 

 give him all his people who had guns, he would call his own 

 people together, burn off all the vegetation they could fire, and 

 punish the offenders. This was not consistent with the feelings 

 of Dr. Livingstone. He felt very grateful that God had delivered 

 him, and had saved him from shedding blood when it seemed 

 impossible to do otherwise, and, declining the offered service, he 

 pursued his way. He was too ill to take much notice of the 

 country, too ill, indeed, to realize the dangers surrounding him. 

 In all his wanderings no journey had been performed with 

 greater suffering. The country was not only the abode of wild 

 men, but the forests and jungles through which they passed 

 afforded hiding-places to most ferocious beasts, whose presence 

 always calls for vigilance on the part of such individuals as in- 

 vade their precincts. The leopard, whose habits have not come 

 so conspicuously before us as many of the monsters of the land, 

 is a serious scourge in Manyuema. One day a goat, an humble 

 but very important member of the caravan, was surprised by 



