354 LIFE OF DA VID LIVINGSTONE, LL.D. 



Islands, a Sepoy Havildar, a few enlisted Sepoys, and some Wasawahili. Thus 

 accompanied, he sailed in an Arab dhow from Zanzibar on the 28th March, 

 1864, and landed at the mouth of the Rovuma, after a voyage of several days. 



Before leaving Bombay, Wekotani wrote the following letter to a 

 gentleman in England (Mr. Horace Waller, we believe.) We give a literal 

 translation of it here, as it cannot fail to interest our readers. 



" I, Wekotani, and I, Chumah, send a letter to give to you, W . The 



Doctor has said all is well, and has given to me the money which you gave to 

 him, the Doctor ; this is done of the good heart. 



" As for us, Chumah and Wekotani, the Doctor said to us, ' Farewell ; 

 remain yet at Bombay ; cause to be learned reading and the art of writing.' 

 I said, even I, Wekotani, ' It is good, my chief.' ' Farewell,' said he. 



" I have answered to the voice of the Doctor, and I now write to you 

 this letter ; and when it is finished I shall like to write to you yet another. 



" The Doctor has arrived ; he said, ' Come here, Wekotani and Chumah, 

 and take that money which W has given out of a good heart. 



" I, Wekotani, learn that one of the boys is dead. I know Kaminya- 

 pongwi is dead; God has taken him. I learn my kinsman Chinsoro has 

 married a wife ; I learn that there is a child born to Uriah. If it be a boy, I 

 know not ; if a girl, I know not. 



" Now I, Wekotani, speak to Uriah and Chinsoro, my kinsmen. He, even 

 he, the Doctor, has said : ' Wekotani and Chumah,' said he, ' let us go to the 



Rovuma.' The chief W has spoken ; he says — ' You, Wekotani, go 



with the Doctor before him on the path, and see other large waters, and speak 

 with and see the Waiou (Ajawa), and speak the Waiou language.' I said, 

 1 This is good, and I travel once more, and travelling there will be no sitting 

 down when the great water is reached. I, I return with the Doctor.' 



" Now I am informed of Adams, and Chumala, and Blair. W says 



Blair and Adams are at Natal, a country belonging to the English, says he. 



"I speak to you, W ; you who used to live with Chinsoro — and to 



A ; he lived with Sumbani, I and you, W , I, Wekotani ; there is no 



forgetting W with me. 



" Now I have written my letter, telling W I am at Bombay. Of 



Chiku and his companions, the traders, four are dead. Chiku is present. I 

 have finished writing. 



" I remain, Sir, 



" Yours mostly obediently, 



" Wekotani. 



"You, W , made pictures (photographs), portraying Chinsoro; and 



I have seen his countenance and that of his wife, of Uriah and of his wife, 

 and I see Daoma and those women Ochuomvala and her mother ; Jambani, 

 I do not see his face. Chiku says, may it be well with you, W ." 



