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Herculean feat of bringing the body of the traveller he had 

 been sent to relieve, together with every article belonging 

 to him at the time of his death, as far as this main road to 

 the coast. 



In talking to the men about their intentions, Lieut. 

 Cameron had serious doubts whether the risk of taking 

 the body of Dr. Livingstone through the Ugogo country 

 •ought to be run. It very naturally occurred to him that 

 Dr. Livingstone might have felt a wish during life to be 

 buried in the same land in which the remains of his 

 wife lay, for it will be remembered that the grave of Mrs. 

 Livingstone is at Shupanga, on the Zambesi. All this 

 was put before the men, but they steadily adhered to their 

 first conviction — that it was right at all risks to attempt to 

 bear their master home, and therefore they were no longer 

 urged to bury him at Kwihara. 



To the new comers it was of great interest to examine the 

 boxes which the men had conveyed from Bangweolo. As 

 we have seen, they had carefully packed up everything at 

 Chitambo's- — books, instruments, clothes, and all which 

 would bear special interest in time to come from having 

 been associated with Livingstone in his last hours. 



It cannot be conceded for a moment that these poor fellows 

 would have been right in forbidding this examination, when 

 we consider the relative position in which natives and English 

 officers must always stand to each other ; but it is a source 

 of regret to relate that the chief part of Livingstone's 

 instruments were taken out of the packages and appro- 

 priated for future purposes. The instruments with which 

 all his observations had been made throughout a series of 

 discoveries extending over seven years — aneroid barometers, 

 compasses, thermometers, the sextant and other things, have 

 gone on a new series of travels, to incur innumerable 

 risks of loss, Avhilst one only of his thermometers conies to 

 hand. 



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