726 THE ROUTE PROPOSED. 



Ethiopia. It may be that these are not the fountains of the 

 Nile mentioned to Herodotus by the secretary of Minerva, in 

 Sa'is, in Egypt ; but they are worth discovery, as in the last 

 hundred of the seven hundred miles of the water-shed, from 

 which nearly all the Nile springs do unquestionably arise. 



" I propose to go from Unyanyembe to Fipa ; then round the 

 south end of Tanganyika, Tambete, or Mbete ; then across the 

 Chambeze, and round south of Lake Bangweolo, and due west 

 to the ancient fountains; leaving the underground excavations 

 till after visiting Katanga. This route will serve to certify that 

 no other sources of the Nile can come from the south without 

 being seen by me. No one will cut me out after this explora- 

 tion is accomplished ; and may the good Lord of all help me to 

 show myself one of his stout-hearted servants, an honor to my 

 children, and, perhaps, to my country and race." 



Some one will enter into his labors, and the honor which his 

 unequalled self-denial and wonderful devotion to science and 

 humanity entitled him to desire; but no man will prove him- 

 self a stouter-hearted servant of God; no man can leave a 

 richer legacy to his children, his country, and his race, than is 

 bequeathed in the memory of him who crowns a life of useful 

 toil by a consecrated death. 



There was no time lost in completing the arrangements at 

 Unyanyembe, when the caravan was once at the disposal of the 

 earnest man already so weary of delay. And no day of his 

 life was brighter to him than the 25th of August, whose even- 

 ing shadows hung about his camp — an hour's march from 

 Kwihara. 



The earlier part of the journey lay along almost the same 

 route as that traversed by Mr. Stanley first, and afterward by 

 himself and Mr. Stanley, between Ujiji and Unyanyembe. The 

 journal of the days is valuable to persons contemplating travels 

 in the country, but possess very little of interest to the general 

 reader. It was the custom of Dr. Livingstone to record with 

 singular care and minuteness the most trivial variations in the 

 soil and general appearance of the regions which he traversed. 

 He could not have been more particular in these matters had 

 he been making a guide book, or charged with a survey for a 

 railroad. He was equally particular in the mention each day 



