CHAPTER XXXIII. 



A JOURNEY AND A DELAY. 



From Ujiji to Unyanyembe — Livingstone a Companion — Route Adopted — Forest 

 Entertainment— Methods of Hunting — Makombwe Hunting Hippopotamus — 

 Baker's Rhinoceros Hunt — Wild Race — "A Horse! a Horse!" — Sword wins 

 the Day — Stanley as Hunter — Tent-Life — Arrive at Kwihara — Home-Life — 

 Busy Preparations — Livingstone Abundantly Provided for — Farewell of Wan- 

 yamwezi — A Wild Dance — The Farewell Song — The Parting — Bagarnoyo 

 Again — The English Expedition — Oswald Livingstone — Caravan Sent Back — 

 The Mission Completed — England, Livingstone, Stanley, the World — Comfort 

 in Disappointment — Livingstone in Unyanyembe — His Occupation — His 

 Modesty — His Zeal for Missions — The Country Inviting — A Robinson Crusoe 

 Life — The Mothers of the Country — The Call to Missionaries — 'Advice to 

 Missionaries " — " No Jugglery or Sleight-of-hand " — Livingstone's Interest 

 General — Grasp and Minuteness — Suspense Ended — Stanley in England — The 

 Queen's Acknowledgment. 



The journey from Ujiji to Unyanyembe occupied nearly 

 seven weeks. Much of the country traversed passed under our 

 eye as we traced Mr. Stanley's march to the lake. Those 

 splendid park lands which so charmed him then were the same 

 matchless theatres for wild adventure, and his spirit, doubly 

 buoyant in the joy of his success, revelled peculiarly in the 

 wealth of incident which each day afforded. And the old 

 traveller, whose heart had become very tender toward the 

 young man whose noble mission had revived his hope and 

 " put new life " into his feeble frame, enjoyed the enthusiasm 

 which reminded him of the years long ago when he travelled 

 with his friend Oswell, and witnessed the delight of Gordon 

 Cumming in his wonderful engagements with the monsters of 

 the forest. Dr. Livingstone had already endeared himself to 

 his companion by the exhibition of many lovely traits; his 

 kindness and gentleness were always conspicuous, and the 

 interest which he manifested in the successes or failures of the 

 young Nimrod, the zest with which he participated in all the 

 adventures of the journey — which to him must have been com- 

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