HOME-LIFE AT UNYANYEMBE. 715 



geographers and the public generally might regard the matter, 

 that he carried in his mind and heart unquestionable assurances 

 of the appreciation of Dr. Livingstone, and he knew well that 

 he had in his possession documents which would convince even 

 theoretical geographers that he had finished his work in a 

 manner becoming a man. 



The home-life at Unyanyembe was undisturbed by the ridi- 

 cule with which the reports of Mr. Stanley's success had been 

 received, and he knew it. The picture of the old, self-forgetting, 

 persevering, noble man in the tembe of Kwihara, comfortable 

 and hopeful, was enough. We have seen enough of that Un- 

 yanyembe home, of the contents of its storeroom, the cows, fowls, 

 sheep, and the faithful servants, to enable us to understand how 

 pleasantly a man with habits or fancies suited to the latitude 

 may spend a few months quite pleasantly, particularly when he 

 has so recently obtained release from four or five years of un- 

 paralleled fatigues, deprivations and harassments. 



There was not much in the life of Dr. Livingstone during 

 those months calling for our notice now. Such observations of 

 the country and people as we find in his journal have been fore- 

 stalled by the travellers whom we have found preceding him 

 there. Much of his time was employed in calculations, which 

 would be found very unsatisfactory to the general reader. Then 

 there were days in which he occupied himself with grouping 

 various reports which he had gathered concerning the country 

 into which he proposed to go — reports which he did not live to 

 confirm. None of them were satisfactory to him ; it required 

 the clearest and most indisputable evidence to satisfy him on 

 any point of importance or general interest. He surveyed per- 

 haps more of the great water-shed of the continent than any 

 other traveller, yet he says frankly: 



" In reference to this Nile source I have been kept in perpetual 

 doubt and perplexity. I know too much to be positive. Great 

 Lualaba, or Lualubba, as Manyuema say, may turn out to be 

 the Congo and Nile, a shorter river after all. The fountains 

 flowing north and south seem in favor of its being the Nile. 

 Great westing is in favor of the Congo. It would be comfortable 

 to be positive like Baker." 



There were questions, however, about which he was more de- 



