LIVINGSTONE^S LAST JOURNEY. 
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shadow of the Victoria Nyanza, drawn from native report, and it 
was joined to the long ''chanter” of Tanganyika as actually seen by 
Burton's party. Livingstone was strongly convinced that the outlet 
of the lake would be found at the extreme northern end, and that 
its waters went to reinforce the Nile. 
Seeing, however, is believing; and from Ujiji he set out in com¬ 
pany with Stanley to discover the "connecting link,” The voyage 
was not without its dangers and excitements. The dwellers on the 
lake shores showed themselves several times to be hostile. At one 
place they shouted to the boatmen to land, and rushed along the 
shore, slinging stones at the strangers, one of the missiles actually 
striking the craft. 
When night fell, and the crew disembarked to cook their supper 
and to sleep under the lee of a high crag, the natives came crowding 
around, telling them with a show of much friendliness to rest 
securely, as no one would harm them. The doctor was too old a 
bird to be caught by such chaff. The baggage was stowed on board, 
ready for a start, and a strict watch was kept. Well into the night, 
dusky forms were noticed dodging from rock to rock, and creeping 
up towards the fires; so, getting quietly on board, the party pulled 
out into the lake, and the skulking enemy .rushed out upon the strand, 
howling furiously at being balked of their prey. 
AN IMPORTANT DISCOVERY. 
The first geographical surprise was met with a little beyond 
the turning-point of Burton and Speke. These latter investigators 
coasted the lake until, as they thought, they saw its two bounding 
ranges meet, and there they drew the extremity of Tanganyika, and 
returned. This appearance, however, was found by Livingstone 
and Stanley to be caused by a high promontory which juts out from 
the western shore overlapping the mountains on the east. Beyond 
this narrow strait Tanganyika again opens up, and stretches on for 
sixty miles further, overhung by mountains rising to a height of 
seven thousand feet above sea-level, and some four thousand three 
hundred feet above the surface of the lake. At last the actual 
extremity of the long trough-like body of water came in view. 
