504 LIFE OF DA VID LIVINGSTONE, LL.D. 



with our protected Banyan fellow-subjects .... The Banyans, having 

 complete possession of the custom-house and revenue of Zanzibar, enjoy ample 

 opportunity to aid and conceal the slave trade, and all fraudulent transactions 

 committed by their agents. . . . Geographers will be interested to know 

 the plan I propose to follow. - I shall at present avoid Ujiji, and go about 

 south-west from this to Fipa, which is east of and near the south end of 

 Tanganyika ; then round the same south end, only touching it again at Sam- 

 betti ; thence resuming the south-west course to cross Chambezi, and proceed 

 along the southern shores of Lake Bangweolo, which being in latitude twelve 

 degrees south, the course will be due west to the ancient fountains of Herodotus. 

 From these it is about ten days north to Katanga, the copper mines of which 

 have been worked for ages. . . . About ten days north-east of Katanga 

 very extensive underground rock excavations deserve attention as very an- 

 cient, the natives ascribing their formation to the Deity alone. They are 

 remarkable for having water laid on in running streams, and the inhabitants 

 of large districts can all take refuge in them in case of invasion. Return- 

 ing from them to Katanga, twelve days N.N.W., will take to the southern 

 end of Lake Lincoln. I wish to go down through it to the Lomame, aud 

 into Webb's Lualaba, and home." 



How much of this programme he had successfully carried out up to 

 the time of his death, we are not at present in a position to state. Of the 

 work of exploration still to be done he spoke cheerfully and hopefully. He 

 says: "I know about six hundred miles of the watershed pretty fairly; I 

 turn to the seventh hundred miles with pleasure and hope. I want no com- 

 panion now, though discovery means hard work. Some can make what they 

 call theoretical discoveries by dreaming. I should like to offer a prize for 

 an explanation of the correlation of the structure and economy of the great 

 lacustrine rivers in the production of the phenomena of the Nile. The prize 

 cannot be undervalued by competitors even who may have only dreamed of 

 what has given me very great trouble, though they may have hit on the 

 division of labour in dreaming, and each discovered one or two hundred miles. 

 In the actual discovery so far, I went two years and six months without once 

 tasting tea, coffee, or sugar; and except at Ujiji, have fed on buffaloes, rhi- 

 noceros, elephants, hippopotami, and cattle of that sort ; and have come to 

 believe that English roast-beef and plum-pudding must be the real genuine 

 theobroma, the food of the gods, and I offer to all successful competitors a 

 glorious feast of beef-steaks and stout. No competition will be allowed after 

 I have published my own explanation, on pain of immediate execution, with- 

 out benefit of clergy!" 



A brief outline of Dr. Livingstone's journeyings, and their results, up to 

 this period, will enable the reader to understand a little more clearly what 

 he has been about since he entered Africa for the third time in 1866. From 



