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which they found a few people. Whilst his servants were 

 busy completing the hut for the night's encampment, the 

 Doctor, who was lying in a shady place on the kitanda, 

 ordered them to fetch one of the villagers. The chief 

 of the place had disappeared, but the rest of his people 

 seemed quite at their ease, and drew near to hear what 

 Mas going to be said. They were asked whether they 

 knew of a hill on which four rivers took their rise. 

 The spokesman answered that they had no knowledge of it ; 

 they themselves, said he, were not travellers, and all those 

 who used to go on trading expeditions were now dead. In 

 former years Malenga's town, Kutchinyama, was the assem- 

 bling place of the Wabisa traders, but these had been swept 

 off by the Mazitu. Such as survived had to exist as best 

 they could amongst the swamps and inundated districts 

 around the Lake. Whenever an expedition was organised 

 to go to the coast, or in any other direction, travellers met 

 at Malenga's town to talk over the route to be taken : then 

 would have been the time, said they, to get information 

 about every part. Dr. Livingstone was here obliged to 

 dismiss them, and explained that he was too ill to continue 

 talking, but he begged them to bring as much food as they 

 could for sale to Kalunganjovu's.] 



26th April. — (No entry except the date.) 



[They proceeded as far as Kalunganjovu's town, the chief 

 himself coming to meet them on the way dressed in 

 Arab costume and wearing a red fez. Whilst waiting here 

 Susi was instructed to count over the bags of beads, and, 

 on reporting that twelve still remained in stock, Dr. Living- 

 stone told him to buy two large tusks if an opportunity 

 occurred, as he might run short of goods by the time 

 they got to Ujiji, and could then exchange them with the 

 Arabs there for cloth, to spend on their way to Zanzibar.] 



To-day, the 21th April, 1873, he seems to have been almost 



