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its properties, would it be ! I think it would act quicker than chloroform, be 

 as fatal as prussic acid." 



" Horrors upon horrors are in it. Boas above our heads, snakes and 

 scorpions under our feet. Land-crabs, terrapins, and iguanas, move about in 

 our vicinity. Malaria is in the air we breathe ; the road is infested with ' hot 

 water' ants, which bite our legs until we dance and squirm about like 

 madmen. Yet somehow we are fortunate enough to escape annihilation, and 

 many another traveller might also." 



Arrived at Bagamoyo, Mr. Stanley was soon in communication with 

 the heads of the " Livingstone Relief Expedition," Lieutenant Henn, Mr. 

 Charles New, a missionary, and Mr. Oswell Livingstone, the eldest surviving 

 son of Dr. Livingstone. Lieutenant Dawson, the head of the expedition, had 

 thrown up his appointment on hearing of the approach of Mr. Stanley. 

 Lieutenant Henn and Mr. New, on learning that Dr. Livingstone had been 

 relieved, decided to retire from the expedition, but Mr. Oswell Livingstone 

 determined to go on with the bearers and stores needed to completely equip his 

 father for his further journeyings. A few weeks afterwards he decided not to 

 go, a decision which now he must bitterly regret. 



The expedition sent to Dr. Livingstone consisted of fifty-seven individuals, 

 many of whom had accompanied Mr. Stanley to and from Ujiji. The most of 

 them had accompanied Dr. Livingstone on his Zambesi journey . Six Nassick boys 

 (African lads educated at the Nassick School, Bombay), who had been brought 

 by Dr. Livingstone from the Shire valley in 1864, and had volunteered to go 

 with Lieutenant Dawson's expedition, were among the number. Their names 

 were Jacob Wainwright, John Wainwright, Matthew Wellington, Canas 

 Ferrars, Richard Rutton, and Benjamin Rutton. The first of these was 

 destined to accompany the remains of his great master to England, and stand 

 beside his grave in Westminster Abbey. 



On the 29th of May, Mr. Stanley left Zanzibar for England, and within 

 a few days it was known all over the civilized world that Dr. Livingstone had 

 been found and relieved. *> 



In addition to the assurance of his being alive, we had news of his having 

 been in the far west among friendly tribes, exploring the western division of 

 the great watershed of Central Africa, of the extent of which he had already 

 informed us in his letter to Lord Clarendon of July 8, 1868. 



The news of his safety did not come to us in the shape of a telegram of 

 a few lines by way of Bombay — tantalizing us with the scantiness of its 

 information, and the dread that in a few days, like many others, it would be 

 contradicted — but reached us in the form of a succinct narrative of the meeting 

 of Mr. Stanley and the explorer at Ujiji, their companionship together for 

 several months, a brief account of his discoveries, and an intimation that Mr. 

 Stanley was the bearer of letters and despatches from Dr. Livingstone for the 



