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LIVINGSTONE'S LAST JOURNALS. 



[Chap. I. 



2oth March. — I hired a house for four dollars a month 

 and landed all our goods from the dhow. The bay gives off 

 a narrow channel, about 500 yards wide and 200 yards long, 

 the middle is deep, but the sides are coral reefs and shoal : 



Dhow used for Transport of Dr. Livingstone's Camels. 



the deep part seems about 100 yards wide. Outside in the 

 Bay of Mikindany there is no anchorage except on the edge 

 of the reef where the Penguin got seven fathoms, but further 

 in it was only two fathoms. The inner bay is called Pemba, 

 not Pimlea, as erroneously printed in the charts of Owen. It 



