4 LIVINGSTONE'S LAST JOURNALS. [Chap. I. 



15th February. — The cough and chest pain diminished, 

 and I feel thankful ; my body is greatly emaciated. Syde 

 came to-day, and is favourable to sending me up to Ujiji. 

 Thanks to the Great Father in Heaven. 



21th February. — We had remarkably little rain these two 

 months. 



25th February. — I extracted twenty Funyes, an insect 

 like a maggot, whose eggs had been inserted on my 

 having been put into an old house infested by them ; as 

 they enlarge they stir about and impart a stinging sensa- 

 tion; if disturbed, the head is drawn in a little. When a 

 poultice is put on they seem obliged to come out, possibly 

 from want of air : they can be pressed out, but the large 

 pimple in which they live is painful ; they were chiefly in 

 my limbs. 



2Qth February. — Embark, and sleep at Katonga after 

 seven hours' paddling. 



21th February. — Went If hour to Bondo or Thembwe 

 to buy food. Shore very rough, like shores near Caprera, 

 but here all is covered with vegetation. We were to cross 

 to Kabogo, a large mass of mountains on the eastern side, 

 but the wind was too high. 



28th February. — Syde sent food back to his slaves. 



2nd March, 1869. — Waves still high, so we got off only 

 on 3rd at lh. 30m. a.m. 6 J hours, and came to M. Bog- 

 harib, who cooked bountifully. 



6th March. — 5 p.m. Off to Toloka Bay — three hours ; 

 left at 6 a.m., and came, in four hours, to Uguha, which is 

 on the west side of Tanganyika. 



1th March. — Left at 6 p.m., and went on till two canoes 

 ran on rocks in the way to Kasanga islet. Rounded a point 

 of land, and made for Kasanga with a storm in our teeth ; 

 fourteen hours in all. We were received by a young Arab 

 Muscat, who dined us sumptuously at noon : there are 

 seventeen islets in the Kasanga group. 



