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part of the 700 pages in order to glean new and minute particulars of the 

 last hours of the great and good Traveller ? Obeying that impulse ourselves, 

 we search the close of the Diary, and towards the end of the second volume 

 the mournful chapter duly comes, which all will be most anxious to peruse. 

 The entries in the note-book have gradually grown shorter — the mention of 

 pain and mental weakness is frequent — the narrative brings the reader finally 

 to Ilala ; and then two pages present us with the fac-simile of the last — the 

 very last — words legibly pencilled by Livingstone. He was unable to do 

 more than make the shortest memoranda, and to mark on the map which he 

 was constructing the streams which enter the lake as he crossed them. From 

 the 22nd to the 27th April he had not strength to write down anything but 

 the several dates. Fortunately Susi and Chumah give a very clear and 

 circumstantial account of every incident which occurred on these days, and 

 Mr. Waller therefore adds what they say, after each of the Doctor's entries : — 



" l 21st April. Tried to ride, but was forced to lie down, and they carried me 

 back to vil. exhausted. — The men explain this entry thus: This morning the 

 Doctor tried if he were strong enough to ride on the donkey, but he had only 

 gone a short distance when he fell to the ground exhausted and faint. Susi 

 immediately undid his belt and pistol, and picked up his cap, which had 

 dropped off, while Chumah threw down his gun and ran to stop the men 

 on ahead. When he got back the Doctor said, " Chumah, I have lost so 

 much blood, there is no more strength left in my legs ; you must carry me." 

 He was then assisted gently to his shoulders, and, holding the man's head to 

 steady himself, was borne back to the village and placed in the hut he had so 

 recently left. It was necessary to let the Chief Muanazawamba know what 

 had happened, and for this purpose Dr. Livingstone despatched a messenger. 

 He was directed to ask him to supply a guide for the next day, as he trusted 

 then to have recovered so far as to be able to march. The answer was, " Stay 

 as long as you wish, and when you want guides to Kalunganjovu's you shall 

 have them." 



" ' 22nd April. Carried on kitanda over Buga, S. W. 2\. (Two hours and 

 a quarter in a south-westerly direction.) — His servants say that, instead of 

 rallying, they saw that his strength was becoming less and less, and in order 

 to carry him they made a kitanda of wood, consisting of two side pieces of 

 seven feet in length, crossed with rails three feet long, and about four inches 

 apart, the whole lashed strongly together. This framework was covered 

 with grass, and a blanket laid on it. Slung from a pole, and borne between 

 two strong men, it made a tolerable palanquin, and on this the exhausted 

 traveller was conveyed to the next village through a flooded grass plain. To 

 render the kitanda more comfortable another blanket was suspended across a 

 pole, so as to hang down on either side, and allow the air to pass under 

 whilst the sun's rays were fended off from the sick man. The start was de- 



