458 LIFE OF DAVID LIVINGSTONE, LL.D. 



tried them on that he exclaimed, ' Richard is himself again !' ' That man, 

 said I, ' whoever he is, is a friend indeed.' ' Yes, that is my friend 

 Waller.' 



" The five other boxes contained potted meat and soups; but the twelfth, 

 containing one dozen bottles of medicinal brandy, was gone ; and a strict 

 cross-examination of Asmani, the head man of Livingstone's caravan, elicited 

 the fact that not only was one case of brandy missing, but also two bales of 

 cloth, and four bags of the most valuable beads in Africa — Sami-sami — which 

 are as gold with the natives. 



" I was grievously disappointed after the stores had been examined. 

 Everything proved to be deceptions in my jaundiced eyes. Out of the tins of 

 biscuits, when opened, there was only one sound box, the whole of which 

 would not make one full meal. The soups — who cared for meat soups in 

 Africa ? Are there no bullocks, and sheep, and goats, in the land from which 

 far better soup can be made than any that ever was potted ? Peas or any 

 other kind of vegetable soup would have been a luxury, but chicken and game 

 soups ! — what nonsense." 



Asmani, the head man in charge of Dr. Livingstone's caravan, had also 

 broken into Mr. Stanley's store huts at Unyanyembe, and abstracted cloth 

 and other articles. It was evident that if the two travellers had been much 

 longer in reaching Unyanyembe the Doctor's stores would have entirely dis- 

 appeared. The stolen goods found in possession of Asmani were taken from 

 him, and he was at once discharged. Nearly one-half of the stores Mr. 

 Stanley had brought from Bagamoyo were at Unyanyembe, and the greater 

 portion of them were handed over to Dr. Livingstone for use in his future 

 journey ings. 



Another caravan of stores which had been prepaid from Zanzibar to 

 Ujiji, winch had been despatched shortly after Dr. Livingstone landed in the 

 country in 1866, or rather the miserable remnants of it, was found in the 

 possession of an Arab who had been charged with their despatch to Ujiji, and 

 handsomely paid for the same. 



On the 14th of March, 1872, Mr. Stanley departed for the coast, and left 

 Dr. Livingstone at Unyanyembe, who was to await there the sending of car- 

 riers and some further stores for his future journey. He was, thanks to Mr. 

 Stanley, well supplied with everything, and could rest in ease and plenty until 

 he was joined by the carriers who were to accompany him in his march. The 

 parting of these two brave men must have been a serious task to both. The 

 courageous young man who had succoured the great traveller, could hardly 

 help thinking that possibly they who had met so opportunely in the heart of 

 Africa might never meet again ; and the dauntless explorer, when he looked 

 his last upon the lithe and active figure of the young man who had come to 

 him in his great need, would not fail to think that this might be to him the 



