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and Lieutenant Grandy, R. N., took command of that of the West Coast. 

 Lieutenant Cameron's expedition very unfortunately got into difficulties, 

 through the accidental shooting of a native by one of his followers. He was 

 detained at and near Unyanyembe on account of the disturbed state of the 

 country, and the bad health of the European members of the party. All of 

 them had suffered from repeated attacks of fever, and were much debilitated 

 in consequence. A grandson of Dr. Livingstone's father-in-law, Dr Moffat, 

 the well-known missionary, a very promising young man, fell a victim to 

 fever at an early stage of the journey; and, recently, Lieutenant Cameron had 

 to report the melancholy intelligence of the suicide of Dr. Dillon — another 

 valued coadjutor — while in the delirium of fever. 



Towards the end of January, 1874, a telegram from Zanzibar reported the 

 currency of a rumour there, that Dr. Livingstone had died near Lake Bang- 

 weolo. On the 11th of February, a despatch to the Foreign Office from H. M. 

 Acting Consul at Zanzibar, stated that letters received from Lieutenant Came- 

 ron, dated October 22, 1873, confirmed the report. "It appears," writes the 

 Acting Consul, " from the information given to Lieutenant Cameron by the 

 Doctor's servant, Elvant Chumah, that Livingstone proceeded from Ujiji to 

 the middle of the northern shore of Lake Bemba (Bangweolo), and that, being 

 unable to cross it, he retraced his steps, and rounded it to the southwards, 

 crossing, besides the Chambese, three others rivers which flowed into the 

 lake. He then went (so far as Lieutenant Cameron is able to make out) in 

 search of the ancient fountains of Herodotus, eventually turned to the east- 

 ward, and crossed the Luapula. After marching for some days through an 

 extremely marshy country, in which, sometimes for three hours at a time, the 

 water stood above the waists of the traveller, the Doctor succumbed to an 

 attack of dysentery, which carried him off after an illness of ten or fifteen days. 

 During this trying journey, two of his men died, and several deserted. The 

 remainder, seventy-nine in number, disembowelled the corpse, and embalmed 

 it as well as they were able with salt and brandy. On nearing Unyanyembe, 

 Chumah, with others, started ahead in order to procure supplies, as the party 

 was nearly starving, and the remainder, with the body, were reported to be 

 distant from ten to twenty days' march from Unyanyembe at the date of 

 Lieutenant Cameron's letter. It will be seen, on reference to Dr. Livingstone's 

 last communication to your Lordships, dated 1st July, 1872, that the account 

 given by the Doctor's servants of his latest movements, agrees in the main 

 with the route sketched out by the traveller himself before leaving Unyan- 

 yembe. His intention was to go southwards to Ujiji, then round the south 

 end of Tanganyika, and crossing the Chambese, to proceed west along the 

 shore of Lake Bangweolo. Being then in latitude 12 degrees south, his wish 

 was to go straight west to the ancient fountains reported at the end of the 

 watershed, then to turn north to the copper mines of Katanga, and, after 



