A TRAMP OP POUR HUNDRED MILES. 
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and the domestic bug alone. Any one familiar with the 
secondary symptoms will see at a glance, on the mainland, 
the skin diseases and bleared eyes, which say that unlimited 
polygamy has been no barrier to the spread of this foul 
disease. Compared with them, the English lower classes 
are gentlemen. 
I am unfeignedly thankful for the kindness that prompted 
and carried out the Search Expedition, and am, etc., 
David Livingstone, 
Her Majesty’s Consul, Inner Afrtca. 
P. S. — Nov. 15. — I have just learned that Musa and com- 
panions, after breaking their engagement to serve for 
twenty months, which was formally entered into before 
Mr. Sunley, went to that gentleman, and, after solemnly 
assuring him that 1 had been murdered, demanded pay for 
all the time they had been absent, and received it. They 
received from me advance of pay and clothing, amounting 
to £40 sterling. I now transmit the particulars to Dr. 
Kirk, the political agent, and demand that the advances, 
and also the pay, should be refunded ; for if they are 
allowed to keep both as the reward of falsehood, the pun- 
ishment enjoined to be inflicted by Lord Stanley will only 
be laughed at. D. L. 
Dr. Livingstone to Lord Clarendon. 
TJjur, Nov. 1st, 1871. 
My Lord: — I wrote a very hurried letter on the 28th ult., 
and sent it by a few men who had resolved to run the risk 
of passing through contending parties of Banyamwezi and 
mainland Arabs at Unyanyembe, which is some twenty 
days east of this. I had just come off a tramp of more 
than four hundred miles, beneath a vertical torrid sun, and 
was so jaded in body and mind by being forced back by 
faithless, cowardly attendants that I could have written 
little more, though the messengers had not been in such a 
hurry to depart as they were. I have now the prospect of 
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