340 LIVINGSTONE'S LAST JOURNALS. [Chap. XIII. 



AVe could well have wished these instruments safe in 

 England with the small remnant of Livingstone's personal 

 property, which was allowed to be shipped from Zanzibar. 



The Doctor had deposited four bales of cloth as a reserve 

 stock with the Arabs, and these were immediately forth- 

 coming for the march down. 



The termination here of the ill-fated Expedition need 

 not be commented upon. One can only trust that Lieut. 

 Cameron may be at liberty to pursue his separate in- 

 vestigations in the interior under more favourable auspices. 

 The men seemed to anticipate nis success, for he is generous 

 and brave in the presence of the natives, and likely to win 

 his way where others undoubtedly would have failed. 



Ill-health had stuck persistently to the party, and all 

 the officers were suffering from the various forms of fever. 

 Lieut. Cameron gave the men to understand that it was 

 agreed Lieut. Murphy should return to Zanzibar, and 

 asked if they could attach his party to their march ; if so y 

 the men who acted as carriers should receive G dollars a 

 man for their services. This was agreed to. Susi had 

 arranged that they should . avoid the main path of the 

 AA r agogo; inasmuch, as if difficulty was to be encountered 

 anywhere, it would arise amongst these lawless pugnacious 

 people. 



By making a ten days' detour at " Jua Shiga," and 

 travelling by a path well known to one of their party 

 through the jungle of Poli ya vengi, they hoped to keep 

 out of harm's way, and to be able to make the cloth hold 

 out with which they were supplied. At length the start 

 was effected, and Dr. Dillon likewise quitted the Expedi- 

 tion to return to the coast. It was necessary to stop 

 after the first clay's march, for a long halt ; for one of the 

 women was unable to travel, they found, and progress 

 was delayed till she, the wife of Chowpereh, could resume 

 the journey. There seem to have been some serious mis- 



