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And now the greater part of their task is over. The weather- 

 beaten company wind their way into the well-known settlement 

 of Kwihara. A host of Arabs and their attendant slaves meet 

 them as they sorrowfully conveyed their charge to the same 

 tembe in which the "weary waiting" was endured before, and 

 then they submitted to the systematic questioning which the 

 native traveller is so well able to sustain. 



Mirambo's war dragged on its length, and matters had 

 changed very little since they were there before, either for better 

 or for worse. They found the English officers extremely short 

 of goods ; but Lieutenant Cameron, no doubt with the object of 

 his expedition full in view, very properly felt it a first duty to 

 relieve the wants of the party that had performed this herculean 

 feat of bringing the body of the traveller he had been sent to 

 relieve, together with every article belonging to him at the time 

 of his death, as far as this main road to the coast. 



Serious doubts were entertained by Lieutenant Cameron 

 whether the risk of taking the body of Dr. Livingstone through 

 the Ugogo country ought to be run. It very naturally occurred 

 to him that Dr. Livingstone might have felt a wish during life 

 to be buried in the same land in which the remains of his wife 

 lay, for it will be remembered that the grave of Mrs. Living- 

 stone is at Shupanga, on the Zambesi. All this was put before 

 the men, but they steadily adhered to their first couviction — 

 that it was right at all risks to attempt to bear their master 

 home, and they were no longer urged to bury him at Kwihara. 



By making a ten days' detour at " Jua Singa," and travelling 

 by a path well known to one of their party through the jungle 

 of Poli ya vengi, they hoped to avoid the Wagogo and keep 

 out of harm's way, and to be able to make the cloth hold out 

 with which they were supplied. 



Making an early start, the body was carried to Kasekera by 

 Susi's party, where, from an evident disinclination to receive it 

 into the village, an encampment was made outside. A consul- 

 tation now became necessary. There was no disguising the fact 

 that if they kept along the main road intelligence would pre- 

 cede them concerning that in which they were engaged, stirring 

 up certain hostility and jeopardizing the most precious charge 

 they had. A plan was quickly hit upon. Unobserved, the 



