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CHAPTER VIII. 
Livingstone and Stanley on Lake Tanganika. 
We have already dealt with the life and the great work 
accomplished by Livingstone, and referred to the bright 
episode of Stanley’s visit to the weary explorer at Ujiji 
on Lake Tanganika. They spent several happy weeks 
together, and Livingstone initiated Stanley into the 
mysteries of exploration by arranging an expedition to 
the north end of Lake Tanganika, the object of which 
was to discover if the river Rnsizi flowed into or out of 
the lake, and to settle whether the latter were connected 
with the Great Nile system. The journey took place 
at the end of 1871. 
Had Livingstone and myself, after making up our 
minds to visit the northern head of the Lake Tanganika, 
been compelled by the absurd demands or fears of a 
crew of Wajiji to return to Unyanyembe without having 
resolved the problem of the Rusizi River, we had surely 
deserved to be greeted by everybody at home with a 
universal giggling and cackling. But Capt. Burton’s 
failure to settle it, by engaging Wajiji, and that ridi- 
culous savage chief Kannena, had warned us of the 
negative assistance we could expect from such people 
for the solution of a geographical problem. We had 
enough good sailors with us, who were entirely under 
our commands. Could we but procure the loan of a 
canoe, we thought all might be well. 
Upon application to Sayd bin Majid, he at once 
generously permitted us to use his canoe for any service 
for which we might require it. After engaging two 
Wajiji guides at two doti each, we prepared to sail from 
the port of Ujiji, in about a week or so after my 
entrance into Ujiji. 
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