394 LIFE OF DA VID LIVINGSTONE, LL.D. 



Seward, dated " Town of Cazembe," 14th December, 1867, was read. In this 

 letter he said — 



" One of Seyd Ben Ali's men leaves this to-morrow to join his master in 

 Buira. He and Hamees have letters from me to you. One of them, in the hands 

 of Hamees, repeats an order for goods, which I sent by Magera Mafupi in 

 February last. If Magera Mafupi's letter came to hand, then the goods would 

 be sent before the present letter can reach you. I have more fear of the want 

 of shoes than anything else. If you have any tracing paper, I should like 

 some ; I lost a good deal in fording a river ; some pencils and ink powder, if 

 you can spare them, and an awl, and stick of sealing wax. I am going to 

 Ujiji in two days, and think that I shall be able to send letters thence to Zan- 

 zibar sooner than my friends can reach it by Bagamoyo. 



" Moero is one chain of lakes, connected by a river, having different names. 

 When we got there, I thought it well to look at Cazembe, of which the Portu- 

 guese have written much ; but all the geographical information is contained in 

 letters I have written, which I mean to send to Ujiji, and have no heart to 

 repeat myself." 



In the letters to Dr. Seward and Dr. Kirk, which were of a private 

 character, Livingstone writes in a most hopeful spirit as to the accomplishment 

 of the work before him, and gave a most gratifying account of the state of his 

 health. 



On the 18th of January, 1869, a letter appeared in the Times from Horace 

 Waller, one of Livingstone's old comrades during a part of the Zambesi expe- 

 dition, that from letters received from Dr. Kirk from Zanzibar, nothing had 

 been heard of Livingstone for a long time. After cautioning the public to be 

 in no anxiety on that account, he says, " Dr. Kirk informs me that Moosa, 

 (the chief of the Johanna men who deserted him) has been handed over to him 

 at Zanzibar from Johanna. Finding that he had already passed eight months 

 in heavy irons, the authorities very humanely considered this time sufficient 

 for the reflective powers of the mischievous scamp to reconsider the merits of 

 truth and falsehood ; so Dr. Kirk set him free." 



On the 19th of April, news arrived in England that Livingstone had 

 reached Zanzibar, and was on his way to England. His old friend Sir 

 Roderick Murchison published his doubts of the truth of this, and as in many 

 other cases where the great traveller was concerned, the veteran geologist was 

 correct. A report of Dr. Livingstone having been murdered, and another of his 

 being in captivity, having got into circulation, were causing much anxiety in 

 the public mind. Sir Roderick Murchison wrote to the London Scotsman on 

 the 6th of September, as follows : — After explaining that a long time must 

 elapse, in consequence of the district into which he had entered, before we 

 could expect to hear from him, he says, " It is, therefore, I think, unnecessary 

 to have recourse to the hypothesis of his captivity. But, whatever may be the 



