398 LIFE OF DA VID LIVINGSTONE, LL.D. 



with provisions, cloth, and beads ; they showed the greatest kindness and 

 anxiety for my safety and success. The leader of the party readily perceived 

 that a continuance of hostility meant shutting up the ivory trade, but the 

 peace-making was a tedious process, requiring three and a-half months ; I was 

 glad to see the mode of ivory and slave-trading of these men, it formed such 

 a perfect contrast to that of the ruffians from Kilwa, and to the ways of the 

 atrocious Portuguese from Tete, who were connived at in their murders by 

 the Governor, De Almeida." 



After peace was declared, he visited Masama, the chief of Itawa, and 

 examined Lake Moero, which he found to be 60 miles long, and from 20 to 

 50 miles broad. From thence he visited Cazembe, and was very hospitably 

 treated by the chief of that name, with whom he staid forty days, on account 

 of the rains having flooded the country and made progress impossible. Ca- 

 zembe's town, which has been three times visited by Portuguese, " stands on 

 the north-east bank of the lakelet Mofwe ; this is from two to three miles 

 broad, and nearly four long. It has several low reedy islets, and yields plenty 

 of fish, a species of perch. It is not connected with either the Luapula or the 

 Moero. I was forty days at Cazembe, and might then have gone on to Bang- 

 weolo, which is larger than either of the other lakes ; but the rains had set in, 

 and this lake was reported to be very unhealthy. Not having a grain of any 

 kind of medicine, and as fever without treatment produced very disagreeable 

 symptoms, I thought it would be unwise to venture where swelled thyroid 

 glands, known among us as Derbyshire neck and elephantiasis (seroli) pre- 

 vail." Getting tired of his inactivity, he went northwards towards Ujiji, 

 " where," he says, " I have goods, and, I hope, letters, for I have heard 

 nothing from the world for more than two years ; but when I got within 13 

 days of Tanganyika, I was brought to a standstill by the superabundance of 

 water in the country in front. A native party came through and described 

 the country as inundated so as often to be thigh and waist deep, with dry 

 stepping places difficult to find. This flood lasts till May or June. At last I 

 become so tired of my inactivity, that I doubled back on my course to Ca- 

 zembe." His description of wading across swollen rivulets, flooded plains and 

 morasses, gives a vivid idea of the courage and resolution of the man. The 

 paths among the long grass were even more trying than these. He says : — 

 " The plain was of black mud, with grass higher than our heads. We had to 

 follow the path, which in places the feet of passengers had worn into deep 

 ruts. Into these we every now and then plunged, and fell over the ancles in 

 soft mud, while hundreds of bubbles rushed up, and, bursting, emitted a fright- 

 ful odour. We had four hours of this wading and plunging ; the last mile 

 was the worst, and right glad we were to get out of it, and bathe in the clear 

 tepid waters and sandy beach of the Moero. In going up the bank of the 

 lake, we first of all forded four torrents thigh deep; then a river 80 yards 



