664 LIFE OF DA VID LIVINGSTONE, LL.D. 



in putting 1 down the slave trade, though the higher class Arabs were friendly 

 to us. Moffat accompanied me to Kikoka, and then returned to Bagamoyo 

 to assist Murphy. On March 28, 1873, Dillon and I started from Kikoka, 

 but had to leave many loads behind, owing to the porters having got back into 

 Bagamoyo, notwithstanding my having paid the guard at the Kingani to 

 prevent their crossing. From Kikoka, Dillon and I marched to Msuwah, 

 across an almost uninhabited country, with park-like stretches of open grass, 

 clumps of fine trees, and strips of jungle, and here and there intersected by 

 nullahs, which, after heavy showers of rain, became considerable streams. 

 We were detained in one place some days trying to get food, which was very 

 scarce, and the villages lay some way from the road. I went out once to look 

 for it, but, owing to trusting to Bombay, lost the track, and had to sleep in a 

 swamp, amid pouring rain, in consequence of which I was laid up with fever 

 until our arrival at Msuwah. At Msuwah the country began to rise more 

 decidedly than it had hitherto done. There was a good deal of cultivation 

 about, but the villages were in dense clumps of jungle, and very few strangers 

 are allowed to enter them. We formed our camp close to the village of the 

 chief, and were initiated into paying tribute, having to give thirty dotis to a 

 smiling old villain. From Msuwah we travelled on with an Arab caravan, 

 till past Simbaweui, crossing the Lugereugeri on our third march, and going 

 through a pass in the Duthumi hills, and then through a well cultivated fer- 

 tile valley full of small conical knolls, and by another pass on to Simbaweui, 

 and then across the Lugereugeri a second time. From here we followed the 

 same route as Stanley to Rehenneko, on the other side of the Makata. 



"At Rehenneko, Dillon and I halted for a month, to wait for Moffat and 

 Murphy, at the end of which time Murphy came up alone, bringing the sad 

 news that Moffat had died before crossing the Makata. Poor young fellow ! 

 His whole heart was in the Expedition ; he had sold his all, a sugar plantation 

 in Natal, and was willing to expend his last farthing in the cause of African 

 exploration. Murphy himself was very ill when he arrived. After a few 

 days' halt to enable him to recover bis strength somewhat, we started across 

 the Usagara mountains, and then passed Miunyi Useghara, up the valley of 

 the Mukoudokwa, by the same route as Stanley to Lake Ugombo, and then 

 across a rough waterless country to Mpwapwa. At Mpwapwa were three or 

 four caravans of different sizes, and one of the Wanyamwezi would have been 

 robbed if I had not interfered to prevent it. From Mpwapwa we went on 

 across the Marenga Mkali, and to obviate the inconvenience of being without 

 water for two days I filled four air pillows with water, which held three gal- 

 lons each. After the Marenga Mkali we arrived at Moume, the first station 

 in Ugogo, and came into the full swing of tribute paying, and were detained 

 three or four days before it could be settled. The first day the chief and all 

 hands were drunk, and next day the chief would only receive the tribute through 



