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hour's march from the spot. " Everything should be done 

 for his friend," he said. 



They were ready to set out. On Susi's going to the hut, 

 Dr. Livingstone told him that he was quite unable to walk 

 to the door to reach the kitanda, and he wished the men 

 to break down one side of the little house, as the entrance 

 was too narrow to admit it, and in this manner to bring 

 it to him where he was : this was done, and he was gently 

 placed upon it, and borne out of the village. 



Their course was in the direction of the stream, and they 

 followed it till they came to a reach where the current was 

 uninterrupted by the numerous little islands which stood 

 partly in the river and partly in the flood on the upper 

 waters. Kalunganjovu was seated on a knoll, and actively 

 superintended the embarkation, whilst Dr. Livingstone 

 told his bearers to take him to a tree at a little dis- 

 tance off, that he might rest in the shade till most of the 

 men were on the other side. A good deal of care was 

 required, for the river, by no means a large one in ordinary 

 times, spread its waters in all directions, so that a false step, 

 or a stumble in any unseen hole, would have drenched the 

 invalid and the bed also on which he was carried. 



The passage occupied some time, and then came the 

 difficult task of conveying the Doctor across, for the 

 canoes were not wide enough to allow the kitanda to be 

 deposited in the bottom of either of them. Hitherto, no 

 matter how weak, Livingstone had always been able to sit 

 in the various canoes they had used on like occasions, but 

 now he had no power to do so. Taking his bed off the 

 kitanda, they laid it in the bottom of the strongest canoe, 

 and tried to lift him ; but he could not bear the pain of a 

 hand being passed under his back. Beckoning to Chumah, 

 in a faint voice he asked him to stoop down over him as 

 low as possible, so that he might clasp his hands together 

 behind his head, directing him at the same how to avoid 



