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LIVINGSTONE’S LAST JOURNEY. 
Preparations were made for a further 'dand/^ or we would 
rather say wading journey, for though all the canoes, except a few 
reserved for the luggage, were left behind, the water was not. All 
went fairly well, however, in spite of the gigantic difficulties encount¬ 
ered, until the loth of April, when, about midway in the journey 
along the western bank of the lake, Livingstone succumbed to a 
severe attack of his complaint, which left him, to quote his own 
words, ''pale, bloodless, and weak from profuse bleeding.^' 
Surely now he would pause and turn back, that he might at 
least reach home to die! But no! he allowed himself but two days’ 
rest, and then, staggering to his feet, though he owns he could 
hardly walk, he "tottered along nearly two hours, and then lay 
down, quite done. Cooked coffee,” he adds—"our last—and went 
on, but in an hour I was compelled to lie down.” 
TENDERLY CARRIED IN A LITTER. 
Unwilling even then to be carried, he yielded at last to the 
expostulations of his men, and, reclining in a kind of litter suspended 
on a pole, he was gently borne along to the village of Chinama, and 
there, "in a garden of durra,” the camp was pitched for the night. 
Beyond on the east stretched "interminable grassy prairies, with 
lines of trees occupying quarters of miles in breadth.” On the west 
lay the lake connected with so many perils, but which Livingstone 
even yet hoped to round completely. 
Our hero was ferried over the Lolotikila, was carried over land 
for a short distance to the south-west, the Lombatwa river was 
crossed, and, after a "tremendous rain, which burst all the now 
rotten tents to shreds,” three sponges were crossed in rapid succes¬ 
sion. Two days later Livingstone rallied sufficiently to mount a 
donkey, which, strange to say, had survived all the dangers of the 
journey from Unyanyembe, and came in sight of the Lavusi hills— 
a relief to the eye, he tells us, after all the flat upland traversed. 
Following the course of the Lulimala till they came to a reach 
where the current was interrupted by numerous little islands, the 
party found Kalunganjova awaiting them on a little knoll, and under 
his superintendence the embarkation proceeded rapidly, whilst 
