690 LIFE OF DA VID LIVINGSTONE, LL.D. 



"Towards the end of October, Dr. Livingstone's servant came in, bringing 

 a letter from Jacob Wainwright, announcing the death of Dr. Livingstone in 

 the month of February. A few days afterwards the whole of Dr. Livingstone's 

 party came in, bringing the corpse of their master with them. All the Arabs 

 assembled at their house to do reverence to his memory, as, like all true and 

 honest men, he had been thoroughly honoured and liked by all the com- 

 munity of respectable Arabs they had met in Africa. When Livingstone's 

 corpse arrived Murphy resigned. Murphy and Dillon started with Living- 

 stone's party on the 9th November to go to the coast, and on the same day he 

 started by himself, bound for the west. A few days afterwards he heard of 

 his poor friend Dillon's death. Dillon had been an old messmate, and one of 

 his greatest friends, who had been with him for several years, and it was a 

 great blow to lose him. There was nothing for it, and he had to go on. He 

 heard that Livingstone had left a desk containing his travelling papers, and 

 that box had to be rescued. For over two months he was kept close to Unyan- 

 yembe by his men deserting. He wished to start with one hundred and 

 twenty men, but he had engaged between five hundred and six hundred before 

 he could get away with the requisite number, which was about the beginning 

 of January. 



"After crossing Unyanyembe, he arrived in the eastern division of Ugara. 

 Here he had again to pay tribute to the chiefs, although not so large an 

 amount as he paid in Ugogo. The only sign of civilisation the natives at 

 this place seemed to possess was a very great pride in carrying an umbrella. 

 At the next division of Ugara, the chief said he would make him pay so much, 

 but one of the other chief's sons, who came in, said he had given his father 

 more, and he had then to pay the same as he had done at first. After leaving 

 Ugara he got into the mountains, where the guides lost themselves. They 

 were ten days wandering about the jungle and crossing rivers, and during 

 this time they had very little to eat. Passing the River Sindy they came 

 into Uvinza, which was famous for its production of salt. 



"At length he sighted the great lake of Tanganyika. At Ujiji there 

 was now a considerable settlement of Arabs, who assisted him to a certain 

 extent. Safe in their hands he found the precious papers of Livingstone. 

 He could not at that time send them to the coast, as there was no caravan, 

 and he could not press west to the lake to follow up Livingstone's dis- 

 coveries, because at that season of the year travelling was impracticable, 

 owing to the rains. He, however, could not remain quiet. Having had a 

 couple of boats fitted up with sails he went across to the southern end of 

 the lake, where he kept close at work mapping. He found ninety-eight 

 rivers, besides torrents and small temporary rivulets, running into the lake, 

 and at last, in the begining of May, he came to a large river having a current 

 running out of it. He found it impossible to follow up this river, for after 



