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4862. At Mbama’s village it was told that Mariano had 
been allowed to return from Mozambique, and was at his 
old trade of stealing the Manganja and selling them as 
slaves. Arriving at the Zambesi it was found that the 
Portuguese had established a station on an island opposite 
the mouth of the Shire. Captain Alvez, the officer in com. 
mand, visited the ship, and said that the occupation of the 
island was only temporary, and only in consequence of 
Mariano’s escape and rebellion. The expedition entered 
the Zambesi on the 1 1th of January, and steamed towards 
the coast, taking the same side they had taken on the way 
up ; but the channel had changed since then, so that they 
ran aground, but got off without injury. They anchored on 
the Great Luabo mouth of the Zambesi, on account of the 
greater ease in getting wood, and on the 30th the govern- 
ment steamer Gordon arrived, bringing Mrs. Livingstone 
and some ladies to join the mission, together with an iron 
steamer in twenty-four sections, intended for the naviga- 
tion of Lake Nyassa. The new steamer was called the 
Lady of the Lake, or the Lady Nyassa. A party having 
started to carry the ladies to the mission, returned having 
heard of the death of the Bishop. The sections of the 
new steamer were carried to Supanga, where they were to 
be put together. Here Mrs. Livingstone died from fever, 
on the 27th of April, 1862, and was buried under the shade 
of a large baobab tree. The new steamer was then put 
together and successfully launched on the 23rd of June. 
The inquiries of the natives concerning the habits of the 
tsetse, in order to discover some way of getting rid of this 
pest, resulted practically in nothing. Some claimed that 
they laid their eggs in certain trees, others that they were 
deposited in the droppings of the buffalo. The only chance, 
in Dr. Livingstone’s opiniou, of getting rid of these poison- 
ous flies, is the extermination of the game, by advancing 
civilization. When the Lady Nj'assa had been got all 
ready, it was found that the waters of the Zambesi and 
Shire had, fallen too low for navigation, until the rains of 
