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CONTENTS. 



CHATTER I. 



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Bad beginning of the new year. Dangerous illness. Kindness of 

 Arabs. Complete helplessness. Arrive at Tanganyika. The 

 Doctor is conveyed in canoes. Kasanga Islet. Cochin-China 

 fowls. Eeaches Ujiji. Receives some stores. Plundering hands. 

 Slow recovery. Writes despatches. Refusal of Arabs to take 

 letters. Thani bin Suellim. A den of slavers. Puzzling current 

 in Lake Tanganyika. Letters sent off at last. Contemplates 

 visiting the Manyuema. Arab depredations. Starts for new 

 explorations in Manyuema, 12th July, 1869. Voyage on the 

 Lake. Kabogo East. Crosses Tanganyika. Evil effects of last 

 illness. Elephant hunter's superstition. Dugumbe. The Lua- 

 laba reaches the Manyuema. Sons of Moenekuss. Sokes first 

 heard of. Manyuema customs. Illness. . . . . . . . . 1 



CHAPTER II. 



Prepares to explore River Lualaba. Beauty of the Manyuema 

 country. Irritation at conduct of Arabs. Dugumbe's ravages. 

 Hordes of traders arrive. Severe fever. Elephant trap. Sick- 

 ness in camp. A good Samaritan. Reaches Mamohela and is 

 prostrated. Beneficial effects of Nyumbo plant. Long illness. 

 An elephant of three tusks. All men desert except Susi, Chuma, 

 and Gardner. Starts with these to Lualaba. Arab assassinated 

 by outraged Manyuema. Returns baffled to Mamohela. Long 

 and dreadful suffering from ulcerated feet. Questionable canni- 

 balism. Hears of four river sources close together. Resume of 

 discoveries. Contemporary explorers. The soko. Description 

 of its habits. Dr. Livingstone feels himself failing. Intrigues of 

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