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manner already related. The ship having run aground about twenty miles 

 below Chibisa's, they were detained five weeks, until the river rose sufficiently 

 to float her off; and during their detention, the carpenter's mate, a fine healthy 

 young Englishman, died of fever, being the first death of a member of the 

 expedition, although they had been three years and a half in the country. 



At Mboma's village they heard that the notorious Mariano had been 

 allowed to leave Mozambique in order to collect a heavy fine which had been 

 imposed upon him after trial for his crimes. He had immediately taken to 

 his old trade, slavery, and had depopulated a large tract of country on the 

 right bank of the river. While expressing indignation at his conduct, and 

 sending an expedition against him, which he was supposed to have defeated, 

 the leader of it being sent back loaded with presents, the party had no doubt 

 that the Portuguese officials at Mozambique were quite aware of his intentions 

 before he started, and were in all likelihood sharing in his ill-gotten gains. 

 The sending a force against him was merely a ruse to save appearances. 



Sailing down the Zambesi, they anchored in the Great Luabo mouth of 

 the Zambesi; and on the 30th of December H.M.S. Gorgon arrived, towing 

 the brig which brought Mrs. Livingstone, Miss Mackenzie, and Mrs. Burrup ; 

 the former had come out to join her husband, while the latter were on their 

 way to join their friends at Magomero, where they arrived, as we have 

 already seen, too late to see their Mends alive. 



The progress of the Pioneer with the party, and a portion of the sections 

 of the Lady Nyassa, a vessel which Livingstone had had specially built for 

 river navigation, in pieces of a size which one man could carry on land, was 

 so distressingly slow, in consequence of the machinery having been allowed to 

 get out of order, that Livingstone and his friends determined to land and put 

 the pieces of the Lady Nyassa together at Shupanga, while Captain Wilson, 

 Dr. Kirk, and Dr. Ramsay, and Mr. Sewell of the Gorgon, and the mission 

 party, went forward in the gig of that ship. 



During the unhealthy season several of Dr. Livingstone's party suffered 

 from fever, and about the middle of April Mrs. Livingstone was prostrated by 

 that disease; and notwithstanding that she received every attention which 

 affection and skill could render, she died on the 27th of that month, and was 

 buried on the following day under the shadow of a giant baobab-tree, the Rev. 

 James Stewart, who had shortly before come out to enquire into the practica- 

 bility of establishing a mission in connection with the Free Church of Scotland, 

 reading the burial service. The gallant seamen of the Gorgon mounted guard 

 for several nights over her last resting-place. It is impossible not to sympathise 

 with the stricken husband, who thus lost the wife of his early years, who had 

 shared in so many of his trials and difficulties, just when he was re-united to 

 her after a separation of four years. Beloved and revered as she was by white 

 men as well as by black, the party who stood under the wide spreading 



