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not seem to have spoilt the man. He longs for handicrafts- 
men to improve his works ! and I think entertains a genuine 
good feeling towards white folks, regarding them, I fancy, 
as a people who will bring good things into his country. 
Through God's blessing, we have performed one of the 
quickest and most prosperous journeys which have been 
done to Ujiji. We were just 73 days from Mpwapwa. 
We have lost none of our goods, and we have had few of 
those troubles which other travellers seem to have had." 
But soon the clouds of sorrow and bereavement returned 
to obscure the bright sun of hope. A month after this, 
Mr. Thomson died from apoplexy, induced, doubtless, by 
the exertions of the undertaking. Having occupied the first 
grave on Tanganyika's shore, the survivors hired a house 
and boat, and commenced to found a station. Meanwhile, 
Mr. Dodgshun and his party were passing through a country 
of enemies, from Zanzibar to Ujiji. The people on this 
route had already murdered Mr. Penrose, a missionary 
of the Church Missionary Society, and were thirsting for 
the blood of Dodgshun and his companions. Writing in 
December, 1878, he says, "It is a daily dodging of fate, and 
it is not a comfortable state of things. In Ugogo, we were 
within an ace of being attacked by over a hundred of the 
natives, fully armed, and thirsting for the blood of the 
white men. We have had to go round by Utaturu, and 
Ukimbo, to avoid the murderers of Mr. Penrose, and on 
the way, we had the painful task of burying the remains of 
M. Wautier, of the Belgian expedition, who died of dysen- 
tery at Ikungu, on the 19th of December." Mr. Dodgshun 
details the seizure of his goods by Mirambo's men. " One 
instalment of goods arrived here safely. . . . Others 
were starting with loads, when some messengers from 
Mirambo arrived, and forbade the men to proceed, making 
