CHAPTER XXXIV. 



THE LAST JOURNEY. 



The Plans of Livingstone — Route Proposed — The March Begun — Livingstone's 

 Carefulness of Observation — A Reliable Observer — Indifference of Livingstone 

 to Danger — A Charmed Life — Better Judges — A Midnight Encounter — The 

 Old Disease — The Shores of Tanganyika — Cotton Cultivated — Hunting a 

 Business — Ominous Silence — Lake Liemba — The Slave Trade — Zombe — Be- 

 neficent Disappointments — Donkeys and the Tsetse — The Kalongosi — Nsama 

 and Casembe — Flood and Flowers — Beautiful Emblems — A Flooded Country—. 

 Great Hardships — Fording Rivers — Livingstone Carried by his Men— Island 

 Villages — The Last Birthday — Resolution — Sufferings and Longings — Six Feet 

 Rain-Fall! — Fishes — Sinking Rapidly — Utterly Exhausted — Kindness of Mu- 

 anazawamba — The Last Written Words — Carried on a Kitanda — The Last 

 Mile— The Last Words— Death. 



We are not left in any uncertainty about the plans of Dr. 

 Livingstone when he set out on the last journey of his life, or 

 the hopes which inspired him ; and we can hardly find in the 

 history of human effort a grander instance of courage and perse- 

 verance than is exhibited in the deliberate and joyous under- 

 taking, when we remember that the route marked out for 

 himself by this great maa was perhaps as extensive as all his 

 journeys since he entered Africa in 1866. 



"It is all but certain," he writes, "that four full-grown 

 gushing fountains rise on the watershed eight days south of 

 Katanga, each of which at no great distance off becomes a large 

 river ; and two rivers thus formed flow north to Egypt, the 

 other two south to Inner Ethiopia; that is, Lufira or Bartle 

 Frere's river, flows into Kamolondo, and that into Webb's 

 Lualaba, the main line of drainage. Another, on the north 

 side of the sources, Sir Paraffin Young's Lualaba, flows through 

 Lake Lincoln, otherwise named Chibungo and Lomame, and 

 that too into Webb's Lualaba. Then Liambai Fountain, Pal- 

 merston's, forms the Upper Zambesi ; and the Lunga (Lunga), 

 Oswell's Fountain, is the Kafue; both flowing into Inner 



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