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ADVANCING UNDER DIFFICULTIES, 
want to go to Ma Zitu ; I no want Ma Zitu to kill me ; I 
want to see my father, my mother, my child in Johanna. 
I no want Ma Zitu to kill me.’ Musa’s words are here re- 
ported ipsiasima verba. To this outburst the Doctor re- 
plied : 'I don’t want the Ma Zitu to kill me either, but 
since you are afraid of them, I go west until we are far 
past the beat of the MaZitu.’ Musa was not satisfied with 
the promise of the Doctor, for he said in the same dolorous 
tone : 1 If we had 200 guns with us I would go, but our 
small party, they will come by night and kill us all.’ The 
Doctor repeated his promise, but to no purpose. When he 
turned his face westward, Musa and the Johanna escort 
heartlessly deserted him. Hence the fabrication of the 
Livingstone murder tale to hide the fact of their desertion, 
and to obtain their wages. Livingstone’s party was very 
small now ; he had sent back the worthless and maudlin 
Sepoys ; the Johanna men had deserted him in a body, and 
Wikotani had been discharged. He was obliged to seek 
aid from the natives. He engaged them as carriers, and 
as they had never been tampered with or betrayed by the 
slave-dealers he managed exceedingly well. From this 
country, which he left in the beginning of December, 18C6, 
he entered on a northern course, where the Ma Zitu had 
swept the land clean of provisions, and where the expedi- 
tion suffered the most pinching hunger. Added to this 
desertions continued, which in one or two cases caused a 
loss of almost all his clothes and cooking utensils and 
dishes. Though misfortune constantly dogged the foot- 
steps of the expedition, it struggled on and traversed the 
countries of Babisa, Bobemba, Baniungu, Barungu, besides 
the country of Londa, where lives the famous king 
Cazembe. 
“ Cazembe and his queen received him kindly, and showed 
eve^ disposition to assist him, and it was he who gave the 
information about Lake Bangweolo (which he called the 
Large Water) to the Doctor. Near Cazembe’s the Doctor 
had crossed a line stream called the Chambezi. But he 
