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on a new series of discoveries to the west of the lake, 
in a region not before visited, scarcely even by the Arabs, 
that of the Manynema. His object was to reach the 
Lualaba, and if possible cross to the west side, still in 
search of the “ fountains.” For a whole year he tried in 
vain to reach the river, baffled partly by the natives, 
partly by the slave-hunters, and partly by his long 
illnesses, in July, 1870, he returned to Bambarre, where 
he was confined to his hut for eighty days with irritable 
eating ulcers on the feet. The people were on the whole 
kind to him, notwithstanding the brutal usage given 
them by the Arab slave-traders. It was not till 
March 29, 1871, that he succeeded in reaching the 
Lualaba, at the town of Nyangwe, where he stayed four 
months, vainly trying to get a canoe to take him across. 
The devilish treachery and cruelty of the Arab slavers 
reached its height during Livingstone’s stay here. A 
party, without warning or provocation, assembled one 
day when the market was busiest and commenced shoot¬ 
ing down the poor women, hundreds being killed or 
drowned in trying to escape. Livingstone had “ the 
impression that he was in hell,” but was helpless, though 
his “ first impulse was to pistol the murderers.” The 
account of this scene which he sent home roused indigna¬ 
tion in England to such a decree as to lead to determined 
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and to a considerable extent successful efforts to get the 
sultan of Zanzibar to suppress the trade. In sickened 
disgust the weary traveller made his way back to Ujiji, 
which he reached on October 13, narrowly escaping an 
attack by the enraged Manyuema, who mistook Living¬ 
stone for one of the slavers. Five days after his arrival 
in Ujiji he was cheered and inspired with new life, and 
completely set up again, as he said, by the timely arrival 
of Mr. H. M. Stanley, the richly-laden almoner of Mr. 
Gordon Bennett, of the New York Herald. Mr. Stanley’s 
residence with Livingstone was almost the only bright 
episode of these last sad years. With Stanley Living¬ 
stone explored the north end of Tanganyika, and proved 
conclusively that the Lusize runs into and not out of it. 
In the end of the year the two started eastward for 
