TWM LAST AND LONGEST JOURNEY. 
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CHAPTEE V. 
DR - LIVINGSTONE STARTS IN JUNE, 1852, ON THE LAST AND 
LONGEST JOURNEY FROM CAPE TOWN. 
Having sent my family homo to England, I started in 
tho beginning of Juno, 1852, on my last journey from 
Cape Town. This journey extended from the southern 
extremity of tho continent to St. Paul do Loando, the 
capital of Angola, on tho west coast, and thence across 
°uth Contral Africa in an oblique direction to Kilimane 
(Quilimane) * u Kastorn Africa. I proceeded in tho usual 
conveyance of the country, tho heavy lumbering Capo 
'yagon drawu by ten oxen, and was accompanied by two 
hristian Bechuanas from Kuruman, — than whom I novel 
s a\y bettor servants anywhere, — by two Bakwain mon, 
and two young girls, who, having come as nurses with our 
children to tho Capo, wore returning to their homo at 
olobeng. Wagon-travelling in Africa Inis been so often 
( oscribod that I need say no more than that it is a prolonged 
B >8tcm of picnicking, excellent for tho health, and agroo- 
ablo to those who are not ovor-fastidious about trifles, 
and who delight in being in tho open air. 
Our routo to tho north lay near tho centre of tho cons- 
■hapod muss of land which constitutes tho promontory of 
tbe Capo. 
f ho slow paco at which wo wound our way through the 
f° Ioi, y made utmost any subject interesting. Tho attention 
!" att ractod to the names of different places, because they 
dieato tho formor existence of buffaloes, elands, and ele- 
? ants, which are now to bo found only hundreds of mile* 
yond. A fow blosbucks, ( Antilope p ygarga ,) gnus, bluo- 
Uck », (A. cerulea ,) stoinbucks, and tho ostrich, (Struthw 
^Wtlus,) continuo, like tho Bushmon, to maintain a pr*- 
CRrioiiu existence whoD all tbo rost are gone. The at*- 
