DE. LIVINGSTONE'S LAST JOURNALS. 



CHAPTEE I. 



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

 Complete helplessness. Arrive at Tanganyika. The Doctor is con- 

 veyed in canoes. Kasanga Islet. Cochin-China fowls. Reaches 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 depreda- 

 tions. 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 Lualaba reaches the Manyuema. Sons of Moenekuss. Sokos first 

 heard of. Manyuema customs. Illness. 



[The new year opened badly enough, and from letters 

 he wrote subsequently concerning the illness which now 

 attacked him, we gather that it left evils behind, from 

 which he never quite recovered. The following entries 

 were made after he regained sufficient strength, but we see 

 how short they necessarily were, and what labour it was 

 to make the jottings which relate to his progress towards 

 the western shore of Lake Tanganyika. He was not able 

 at any time during this seizure to continue the minute 

 maps of the country in his pocket-books, which for the first 

 time fail here.] 



1st January, 1869. — I have been wet times without num- 

 ber, but the wetting of yesterday was once too often : I felt 



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