182 LIVINGSTONE'S LAST JOURNALS. [Chap. VII. 



[Through a coincidence a singular interest attaches to 

 this entry. The concluding words of the letter he refers 

 to are as follows : — ] 



"All I can add in my loneliness is, may Heaven's rich 

 blessing come down on everyone, American, English, or Turk, 

 who will help to heal the open sore of the world." 



[It was felt that nothing could more palpably represent 

 the man, and this quotation has consequently been inscribed 

 upon the tablet erected to his memory near his grave in 

 Westminster Abbey. It was noticed some time after select- 

 ing it that Livingstone wrote these words exactly one year 

 before his death, which, as we shall see, took place on the 

 1st May, 1873.] 



3rd May.- — The entire population of Unyanyembe called 

 Arab is eighty males, many of these are country born, and 

 are known by the paucity of beard and bridgeless noses, 

 as compared with men from Muscat ; the Muscatees are 

 more honourable than the mainlanders, and more brave — 

 altogether better looking and better everyway. 



If we say that the eighty so-called Arabs here have 

 twenty dependants each, 1500 or 1600 is the outside popu- 

 lation of Unyanyembe in connection with the Arabs. It 

 is called an ivory station, that means simply that elephant's 

 tusks are the chief articles of trade. But little ivory 

 comes to market, every Arab who is able sends bands of 

 his people to different parts to trade : the land being free 

 they cultivate patches of maize, dura, rice, beans, &c, and 

 after one or two seasons, return with what ivory they may 

 have secured. Ujiji is the only mart in the country, and it 

 is chiefly for oil, grain, goats, salt, fish, beef, native produce 

 of all sorts, and is held daily. A few tusks are sometimes 

 brought, but it can scarcely be called an ivory mart for that. 

 It is an institution begun and carried on by the natives in 



