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Unyanyembe, where Stanley provided Livingstone with 
an ample supply of goods, and the latter gave instruc¬ 
tions to make use of his own money in providing for 
him all that was needed. Stanley urged his going home, 
but although he was now inwardly yearning to return, 
his judgment said—“ All your friends will wish you to 
make a complete work of the exploration of the Nile 
before you return.” It is easy now to speak of Living¬ 
stone’s idea as a sad delusion, but at that time the 
course of the Congo was unknown, and other eminent 
authorities besides him seriously maintained that the 
Lualaba was probably the Nile. The rest is soon told. 
Stanley left on March 15, 1872, and after Livingstone had 
waited wearily at Unyanyembe for five months, a troop 
of fifty-seven men and boys arrived, good and faithful 
fellows on the whole, selected by Stanley himself! Thus 
attended, he started on August 15 for Lake Bangweolo, 
proceeding along the east side of Tanganyika. His 
weakness soon found him out ; his old enemy dysentery 
seized him, and got worse and worse, causing him fearful 
suffering to the bitter end. In January, 1873, the party 
got among the endless spongy jungle on the east of Lake 
Bangweolo, Livingstone’s object being to go round by 
the south and away west to find the “ fountains.” 
Vexatious delays took place, and the journey was one 
constant wade below, under an almost endless pour of 
rain from above. The doctor got worfee and worse, but 
no idea of danger seems to have occurred to him. At 
last, in the middle of April, he had unwillingly to 
submit to be carried in a rude litter; still in his faith¬ 
fully kept journals his illness is spoken of as a mere 
annoying hindrance. These journals were kept up to 
the very last, and under the greatest difficulties and 
afflictions, he always took his observations and made his 
records. On April 29, Chitambo’s village on the 
Lulimala, in Ilala, on the south shore of the lake, w T as 
reached. The last entry in the journal is April 27 :— 
“ Knocked up quite, and remain—recover—sent to buy 
milch goats. We are on the banks of the Molilamo.” 
On April 30 he with difficulty wound up his watch, and 
