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opening for a river such as we imagined the Rusizi to be. We followed some 

 canoes which were disappearing mysteriously and suspiciously through some 

 gaps in the dense brake. Pulling boldly up, we found ourselves in what 

 afterwards proved to be the central mouth of the river. All doubt as to what 

 the Rusizi was, vanished at once and for ever before that strong brown flood, 

 which tasked our exertions to the utmost as we pulled up. I once doubted, 

 as I seized an oar, that we should ever be able to ascend ; but after a hard 

 quarter of an hour's pulling, the river broadened, and a little higher up we 

 saw it widen into lagoons on either side." 



Several times the party were in considerable danger from the attacks of 

 the numerous inhabitants on the shores of the lake. Mr. Stanley had a 

 slight attack of fever, and during its continuance Dr. Livingstone nursed him 

 with great care. An amusing incident happened at Mukamba's town. 



" Susi, the Doctor's servant, got gloriously drunk, from the chief's liberal 

 and profuse gifts of pombi. Just at dawn, next morning, I was awakened by 

 hearing several sharp crack-like sounds. I listened, and found the noise was 

 in our hut. It was caused by the Doctor, who, towards midnight, had felt 

 some one come and lie down by his side on the same bed, and, thinking it 

 was me, he had kindly made room, and laid down on the edge of the bed. 

 But in the morning feeling rather cold, he had been thoroughly awakened, 

 and, on rising on his elbow to see who his bedfellow was, he discovered, to 

 his great astonishment, that it was no other than his black servant, Susi, who 

 taking possession of his blankets, and folding them about himself most 

 selfishly, was occupying almost the whole bed. The Doctor, with that 

 gentleness characteristic of him, instead of taking the rod, had contented 

 himself with slapping Susi on the back, saying, ' Get up, Susi, will you? 

 You are in my bed. How dare you, Susi, get drunk in this way, after I 

 have told you so often not to do so ; get up.' ' You won't ? Take that, and 

 that, and that.' Still Susi slept and grunted ; so the slapping continued, 

 until even Susi's thick hide began to feel it, and he was thoroughly awakened 

 to the sense of his want of devotion and sympathy for his master, in the 

 usurping of even his master's bed. Susi looked very much crestfallen after 

 this expose of his infirmity before the ' little master,' as I was called." 



One of the questions left for Livingstone to settle was the outlet from 

 Tanganyika, and whether it is or is not connected with the Nile drainage by 

 some other channel. 



Dr Livingstone and Mr. Stanley reached Ujiji on the 13th of December, 

 and after making the necessary preparations, they started for Unyanyembe. 



The Tanganyika Lake was first seen by European eyes in 1858, when 

 Captains Burton and Speke looked down upon it from the heights above 

 Ujiji. After a terrible journey from Unyanyembe, Captain Speke was nearly 

 blind, and Captain Burton was so weak from fever and paralysis that for 



