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lauded to the skies his fellow-townsmau Dr 

 Barth. He severely criticised Dr Livingstone ; 

 he patronized, in a comical way, Herr Peter- 

 mann ; he highly extolled his own book ; ^ and 

 he wrote to Zanzibar — so we afterwards heard — 

 a far from flattering estimate of our qualilications 

 as travellers. He staved with us two davs, and 

 then departed northwards, intending to make 

 Mbweni, the Booamy or Bovamee of Dr Krapf, 

 the village at the mouth of the Panga-ni river. 

 Thence he crossed to Zanzibar Island, and, after 

 scant preparations, he landed at Kilwa: in 1859 he 

 marched through Uliiao upon the Kyassa water. 

 He reached it after long delays, caused by almost 

 constant illness, on November 19, 1859, about 

 two months after Dr Livingstone, who first saAV it 

 on Sept. 16. As he was walking without weapons, 

 two of his four Africans shot their arrows 

 into his back. This happened in S. lat. 12"" 40', 

 and at a short distance from the lake's eastern 

 shore. The assassins were sent in irons to Zan- 

 zibar bv the chief of the countrv, wlio feared re- 

 tribution, and on August 23rd, 1860, Captain 

 Grant saw them beheaded outside the Port. 



^ ' Ptolemaeus und die Handelstrassen in Central- Afrika.' 

 It was written before the traveller set out for Africa, and it lias 

 been calmly and fairly judged by Dr Beke (Sources of the Jsile, 

 p. 69). 



