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LIVINGSTONE’S LAST JOURNEY. 
the goods there stored up for his use, and the start for the east was 
made late in December, 1871. Making a roundabout trip to the 
south to avoid the war still going on, the party reached Unyanyembe 
in February, 1872, after a good deal of suffering on Stanley’s part 
from fever, and on Livingstone’s from sore feet. 
In March, after giving all the stores he could spare to Liv¬ 
ingstone, Stanley left for Zanzibar, accompanied for the first day’s 
march by the veteran hero. 
Livingstone gave the earlier portion of the precious journal 
from which our narrative has been culled into the care of the young 
American, and as they walked side by side, putting off the evil 
moment of parting as long as possible, the following interesting 
conversation, the last held by Livingstone in his own language, 
took place:— 
‘"Doctor,” began Stanley, “so far as I can understand it, you 
do not intend to return home until you have satisfied yourself about 
the ‘Sources of the Nile.’ When you have satisfied yourself, you 
will come home and satisfy others. Is it not so?” 
^ LOOKING HOPEFULLY INTO THE FUTURE. 
“That is it exactly. When your men come back” (Stanley was 
to hire men at Zanzibar to accompany Livingstone in his further 
journey) “I shall immediately start for Ufipa” (on the south-eastern 
shores of Lake Tanganyika) ; “then I shall strike south, and round 
the extremity of Lake Tanganyika. Then a south-east course will 
take me to Chikumbi’s, on the Lualaba. On crossing the Lualaba, 
I shall go direct south-west to the copper mines of Katanga. Eight 
days south of Katanga the natives declare the fountains to be. 
When I have found them, I shall return by Katanga to the under¬ 
ground houses of Rua. From the caverns, ten days north-east will 
take me to Lake Komolondo. I shall be able to travel from the lake 
in your boat, up the river Lufira, to Lake Lincoln. Then, coming 
down again, I can proceed north by the Lualaba to the fourth lake— 
which will, I think, explain the whole problem.’ 
“And how long do you think this little journey will take you?” 
“A year and a half at the furthest from the day I leave Unyan¬ 
yembe.” 
