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LIVINGSTONE’S LAST JOURNEY. 
As the voyagers approached it, they only became more puzzled 
as to what they should find. Two days’ sail from their destination 
they were positively assured by the natives that the water flowed 
out of Tanganyika. Even when the limits of open water were 
reached in a broad marshy flat covered by aquatic plants, it was not 
easy to answer the question which the travelers had come all this 
long way to solve. Seven broad inlets were seen penetrating the 
bed of reeds. In none of them could any current be discovered. 
A ROMANTIC JOURNEY IN A CANOE. 
Entering the centre channel in a canoe, however, and pulling 
on for some distance past sedgy islands and between walls of 
papyrus, disturbing with every stroke of the paddles some of the 
sleeping crocodiles that thro'ng in hundreds in this marsh, all doubt 
as to the course of the Rusizi was soon removed. A strange current 
of discolored water was met pouring down from the high grounds, 
and further examination showed that the stream had other chan¬ 
nels losing themselves in the swamp, or finding their way into one 
or other of the inlets at the head of the lake. 
Their work in connection with the Rusizi done, our heroes 
returned to Ujiji, this time skirting along the western shores of the 
lake, and crossing it near a large island called Muzumi. Back 
again at Ujiji on the 15th of December, Stanley did all in his power 
to persuade Livingstone to return home with him and recruit his 
strength; but the only answer he could obtain was, ''Not till my 
work is done.” 
In this resolution Livingstone tells us in his journal he was 
confirmed by a letter from his daughter Agnes, in which she said— 
"Much as I wish you to come home, I would rather you finished 
your work to your own satisfaction than to return merely to gratify 
me.” "I must complete the exploration of the Nile sources before 
I retire,” says the devoted hero in another portion of his notes, 
little dreaming that he was all the time working not at them, but 
at those of the Congo. 
It was arranged, however, that Livingstone should accom¬ 
pany Stanley on his return journey as far as Unyanyembe, to fetch 
