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was that of an Arab gentleman in very comfortable 
circumstances. 
The person above described was the Arab who had 
escorted Cameron across the Lualaba as far as Utotera, 
south latitude 5°, and east longitude 25° 54'. Naturally, 
therefore, there was no person at Nyangwe whose evidence 
w r as more valuable than Tippu-Tib’s as to the direction 
that my predecessor at Nyangwe had taken. The in- 
formation he gave me was sufficiently clear— and was, 
moreover, confirmed by Sayid Mezrui and other Arabs — 
that the greatest problem of African geography was left 
untouched at the exact spot where Dr. Livingstone had 
felt himself unable to prosecute his travels, and whence 
NATIVES OF FBUJWE. 
he had retraced his steps to Ujiji, never to return to 
Nyangwe. 
This was momentous and all-important news to the 
Expedition. We had arrived at the critical point in our 
travels : our destinies now awaited my final decision. 
But first I was anxious to know why Cameron had 
declined the journey. Sayid Mezrui said it was because 
he could not obtain canoes, and because the natives in 
the Mitamba or forest were exceedingly averse to 
strangers. Tippu-Tib averred also that Cameron’s men 
decidedly opposed following the river, as no one knew 
whither it went. 
“ In the same way I am told the old man Daoud 
Liviston ” — David Livingstone — “ was prevented from 
going. The old man tried hard to persuade the Arabs to 
lend him canoes, but Muini Dugumbi refused, upon the 
ground that he would be rushing to his death. Cameron 
