666 LIFE OF DA VID LIVINGSTONE, LL.D. 



water. The next morning, as Dillon and I were out on one side of the track 

 looking for game, we saw a couple of lions six hundred or seven hundred 

 yards off, trotting quietly home after a night out. The same afternoon we 

 heard an alarm of ' Ruga, Ruga,' or robbers, and, going to the front, found 

 that a small party had been robbed of some ivory and two women slaves, and 

 had had a man wounded. Our men were in a great funk, but we managed 

 to get them along ; and about five p.m. we arrived at a large pond, camped, 

 and fenced ourselves in. In the early part of the night a few arrows were 

 shot into the camp, but we kept watch ourselves, and made our men do like- 

 wise, and so the rest of the night passed without further alarm. The next 

 day we arrived at the outlying villages of Unyanyembe ; and on the 5th of 

 August we marched into Kwikuruh, its capital, and were entertained at 

 breakfast by Said ibn Salim ibn Raschid el Lamki, the Arab governor, and 

 thoroughly did we enjoy our good breakfast after the scanty fare on which 

 we had been living. After breakfast he and many other Arabs escorted us 

 to the house where Stanley had lived, and which was now lent to us by Said 

 ibn Salim. After a couple of days we had to pay a round of visits to all the 

 principal Arabs, and eat with all. This was a very formidable undertaking, 

 as we had to eat something with each to avoid giving offence, and this lasted 

 from 10 a.m. till 4 p.m. A day or two afterwards I was knocked over by fever, 

 and Dillon and Murphy soon followed suit. About the 21st of August 1874, 

 a letter from Sir Samuel Baker arrived in charge of some of King Mtesa's 

 men, and I sent a letter back by them. We were delayed by fever, blindness, 

 and other illnesses till the end of October — and also by desertion of men — when 

 Chuma and another man arrived bringing the news of Dr. Livingstone's 

 death, and saying that his caravan was near. I instantly sent off a large bale 

 of cloth to assist them. When the body of Dr. Livingstone arrived, all the 

 principal Arabs assembled at our house to show respect to his memory. A 

 few days after Murphy resigned, and when I was on the point of starting 

 westward, having fitted out Livingstone's men with stores for the coast, Dil- 

 lon was so ill as to be unable to proceed. After he had decided to return, 

 Murphy volunteered to rejoin the Expedition, but, owing to difficulties about 

 stores and porters, I thought it best to go on alone. Dillon and Murphy, with 

 Dr. Livingstone's corpse, left for the coast on the 9th of November, 1873, and 

 the same day I started for Ujiji. I tried to steer straight for Ujiji, but, owing 

 to the fear all my men were in of the ubiquitous Mirambo, and the desertions 

 caused by it, I had to make a considerable detour to the south. 



" A few days after I parted from my two companions, I received the sad 

 news of Dillon's death. I reached Uganda in the beginning of December, 

 and there found Murphy, who had lost some of his cloth, and had to send back 

 to the Arab governor for more. After one day at the capital of Uganda, I 

 went on west, but two marches out was met by a chief who said we could not 



