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understandings between the leaders of Dr. Livingstone's 

 party and Lieut. Murphy soon after setting out, which turned 

 mainly on the subject of beginning the day's inarch. The 

 former, trained in the old discipline of their master, laid 

 stress on the necessity of very early rising to avoid the heat 

 of the day, and perhaps pointed out more bluntly than 

 pleasantly that if the Englishmen wanted to improve their 

 health, they had better do so too. However, to a certain 

 extent, this was avoided by the two companies pleasing 

 themselves. 



Making an early start, the body was carried to Kasekera, 

 by Susi's party where, from an evident disinclination to 

 receive it into the village, an encampment was made out- 

 side. A consultation now became necessary. There was 

 no disguising the fact that, if they kept along the main 

 road, intelligence would precede them concerning that 

 in which they were engaged, stirring up certain hostility 

 and jeopardising the most precious charge they had. A 

 plan was quickly hit upon. Unobserved, the men removed 

 the corpse of the deceased explorer from the package in 

 which it had hitherto been conveyed, and buried the bark 

 case in the hut in the thicket around the village in which 

 they had placed it. The object now was to throw the 

 villagers off their guard, by making believe that they had 

 relinquished the attempt to carry the body to Zanzibar. 

 They feigned that they had abandoned their task, having 

 changed their minds, and that it must be sent back to 

 Unyanyembe to be buried there. In the mean time the 

 corpse of necessity had to be concealed in the smallest 

 space possible, if they were actually to convey it secretly 

 for the future ; this was quickly managed. 



Susi and Chunia went into the wood and stripped off 

 a fresh length of bark from an N'gombe tree ; in this 

 the remains, conveniently prepared as to length, were 

 placed, the whole being surrounded with calico in such 



