1870.] SLOW RECOVERY. 63 



of his ears and would have been killed, but Monangoi said : 

 " Don't let the blood of a freeman touch our soil." 



26th September. — I am able now to report the ulcers 

 healing. For eighty days I have been completely laid up 

 by them, and it will be long ere the lost substance will be 

 replaced. They kill many slaves ; and an epidemic came to 

 us which carried off thirty in our small camp.* 



[We come to a very important note under the next 

 date. It may be necessary to remind the reader that when 

 Livingstone left the neighbourhood of Lake Nyassa and 

 bent his steps northwards, he believed that the "Chani- 

 beze " Eiver, which the natives reported to be ahead of 

 him, was in reality the Zambezi, for he held in his hand 

 a map manufactured at home, and so conveniently mani- 

 pulated as to clear up a great difficulty by simply inserting 

 " New Zambezi " in the place of the Chambeze. As we 

 now see, Livingstone handed back this addled geographical 

 egg to its progenitor, who, we regret to say, has not only 

 smashed it in wrath, but has treated us to so much of its 

 savour in a pamphlet written against the deceased explorer, 

 that few will care to turn over its leaves. 



However, the African traveller has a warning held up 

 before him which may be briefly summed up in a caution 

 to be on the look out for constant repetitions in one form 

 or another of the same name. Endless confusion has 

 arisen from Nyassas and Nyanzas, from Chiroas and Kiroas 

 and Shirwas, to say nothing of Zambesis and Chambezes. 



* A precisely similar epidemic broke out at the settlement at Ma- 

 gomero, in which, fifty-four of the slaves liberated by Dr. Livingstone and 

 Bishop Mackenzie died. This disease is by far the most fatal scourge the 

 natives suffer from, not even excepting small-pox. It is common through- 

 out Tropical Africa. We believe that some important facts have recently 

 been brought to light regarding it, and we can only trust sincerely that 

 the true nature of the disorder will be known in time, so that it may be 

 successfully treated : at present change of air and high feeding on a meat 

 diet are the best remedies we know. — Ed. 



