508 THE SUPPLIES SENT LIVINGSTONE. 
quar, of Leith, Scotland, and John William Shaw, of Lon- 
don, England, the two white men I had engaged to assist 
me, had died ; also, eight baggage-carriers and eight sol- 
diers of the expedition had died. I was bold enough to 
advise the Doctor to permit the expedition to escort him to 
Unyanycmbe, through the country it was made acquainted 
with while going to Ujiji, for the reason that were he to sit 
down at Ujiji until Mirambo was disposed of, he might re- 
main a year there, a prey to high expectations, ending 
always in bitter disappointment. I told him, as the Arabs 
of Unyanycmbe were not equal to the task of conquering 
Mirambo, that it were better he should accompany the 
Herald expedition to Unyanycmbe, and there take posses- 
sion of the last lot of goods brought to him by a caravan 
which left the sea-coast simultaneously with our expedition. 
The Doctor consented, and thus it was that he came so far 
back as Unyanycmbe. 
“ It is erroneously supposed by his friends that Dr. Liv- 
ingstone is most industriously attended to ; that he receives 
annually, if not semi-annually, large supplies of cloth, 
beads, and necessaries. Your correspodent begs to inform 
his friends that the Herald correspondent found him turned 
back from his explorations when on the eve of being termi' 
nated thoroughly, by the very men sent to him by the 
British Consulate ; that the expedition found him sitting 
down at Ujiji, utterly destitute, robbed by the very men 
sent by the British Consulate at Zanzibar with his caravan ; 
that the Herald expedition escorted him to Unj'anyembo 
only in time to save his last stock of goods, for the}' were 
rapidly being made away with by the very men entrusted 
by the British Consulate with the last lot of goods ; that 
it was only by an accident that your correspondent saw a 
packet of letters addressed to Livingstone, and so forcibly 
took one of Livingstone’s men to carry the letters to his 
employer. 
“ When we arrived at Unyanyembe, two bales of cloth, 
two bags of beads, and one case of brandy had already 
