688 LIFE OF DA YID LIVINGSTONE, LL.D. 



caravan was approaching, having got a note from Murphy saying that they 

 were coming, and that young Moffat was ill. By and by he was told that a 

 white man's caravan was coming in. He was very ill at the time, but he 

 managed to hobble out in order to go and see who was coming. He saw 

 only one man, who appeared to be Murphy. He asked him, "Where is 

 Moffat?" and received the answer that he died on the other side of the swamp. 

 There the large-hearted youth lay under the shade of a solitary palm tree, 

 another martyr to the cause of travelling in Africa. 



" Murphy having joined them their next work was to get on again as soon 

 as possible, time meaning money in Africa just as much as it meant money at 

 home. They went across the Usegara Mountains. It was very slippery, and 

 at night they had to camp on the side of a hill sloping like the top of a house, 

 the consequence being that frequently their things ran down the side of the 

 hill. There was not the slightest sign of a human habitation, the only thing 

 visible being faint indications of the footpath. Indeed, so wild was the place 

 that one morning he saw all the men and lads starting. He heard a noise, 

 and looking round there he saw rolling down the hill a leopard with a monkey 

 in its mouth, which the ferocious beast had just caught. They crossed these 

 mountains and came to a fertile valley. Here they were told by the chief 

 they would have to buy their food. He, therefore, sent off a party of men 

 to a place three or four hours distant to buy provisions. The day after they 

 had gone one of them came rushing into the camp, and reported evil tidings 

 — that all the men had been killed. He asked what was the matter, and the 

 reply was that all the men had run away, and had lost everything. At 

 length he ascertained that one of his men had by accident shot one of the 

 natives. In short, they were detained here four or five days, and had to pay 

 over £50 of cloth and a couple of guns to the natives of that country, besides 

 having lost all the food which they had been sent to buy. After arriving at 

 and passing Lake Ugombo he had a long march without water, and one of 

 his men died of thirst on the way. 



"On coming to Upwapwa caravans were met from Unyanyembe, and on 

 asking news of Livingstone he was simply told that he had received the stores 

 sent by Stanley, and had again started for the west. At Upwapwa there was 

 a highland robber tribe called the Waderigo, a fine manly race of men, averag- 

 ing about six feet in height, and the only tribe of people he had ever met in 

 Africa perfectly naked. This tribe came down on the more peaceful inhabit- 

 ants and drove off their cattle, which they sold to others living at a distance. 

 None of the settled tribes ever resisted the Waderigos, for they got the name 

 of being so brave that they did not care for death. s They, however, never 

 attacked the caravans, finding it rather to their advantage to sell them their 

 cattle. The next place come to was Ugogo, a large district with numerous 

 chiefs, every day's march almost bringing his party into the territory of a 



