LIVINGSTONE TO LORD STANLEY. 
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period when he was found by Mr. Stanley, together with 
the results of his labors, and the plans he has formed for 
■completing his discoveries. 
Dr. Livingstone to Lord Stanley. 
Bambarre, Manyuema Country, 
say 150 miles west of Ujiji, Nov. 15 th, 1810. 
M't Lord: — A s soon as I recovered sufficiently to lie 
able to march from Ujiji, 1 went up Tanganyika about sixty 
miles, and thence struck away northwest into the country 
ol the Manyuema or Manyeina, the reputed cannibals. My 
object was to follow down the central line of drainage of 
the Great Nile Valley, which 1 had seen passing through 
the great Lake Bangweolo, and changing its name from 
Chambezi to Luapula ; then again, on passing through 
Lake Moero, assuming the name Lualaba, and after forming 
a third lake (Komolondo) becoming itself a great riverian 
lake, with many islands in it, I soon found myself in the 
large bend which this great lacustrine river makes by flow- 
ing west about one hundred and eighty miles, then sweep- 
ing round to the north. Two hours were the utmost I 
could accomplish in a day; but by persevering 1 gained 
strength, and in July came up to the trading party of Mu- 
hamed Bogharib, who by native medicines and carriage 
saved 1113’ life in my late severe illness in Marungu. Two 
days before we reached Bambarre, the residence of the 
most sensible of the Manyema chiefs, called Moenekus, we 
met a band of Ujijian traders, carrying 18,000 pounds 
weight of ivory, bought in this new field for a mere trifle, 
in thick copper bracelets and beads. The traders had been 
obliged to employ their slaves to collect the ivory, and 
slaves with guns in their hands are often no better than 
demons. We heard but one side of the story — the slave 
version — and such as would have appeared in the newspaper 
if they had one : “ the Manyema were very bad, were always 
in the wrong,” wanted in fact to eat tire slaves, and always 
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