638 LIFE OF DA VID LIVINGSTONE, LL.D. 



and slaves all armed with guns, so that they had command over the whole sur- 

 rounding country. One man alone had over six hundred armed Wanyamwesi. 

 After a week's detention at Kwakasongo, our traveller proceeded on his jour- 

 ney, and in three days reached Kumbwi, on the Lualaba. The first view of 

 the river exceeded all his previous expectations concerning it. It varied 

 from a thousand to three thousand yards in width, with a swiftly-flowing 

 current, and many well -wooded and inhabited islands. At Kumbwi he got 

 canoes for himself and some of his men, and went down to Nyangwe by 

 water in one day, leaving the others to follow by land. At Nyangwe he was 

 warmly welcomed by an old Arab, Habib ibn Salim, with whom Livingstone 

 had stayed when he was there. Two days after his arrival, the men whom 

 he had left at Kwmbwi came by land; and then began preparations for fol- 

 lowing the great river down to the coast. 



