HISTORY 
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{the Upper Congo) of which he had heard much to excite his curiosity, and 
which river, he believed, with occasional misgivings, to be the Upper Nile. 
But so erratic were the wanderings of the Arabs to and fro in the Manyema 
■country that Livingstone did not actually reach the banks of the Lualaba until 
March, 1871. Resolved to devote himself now to the tracing of what he 
believed to be the Upper Nile from its source on the Nyasa-Tanganyika 
plateau to its entrance into the Albert Nyanza, Livingstone decided to return 
to Ujiji and renew his stock of trade goods and provisions. His journey from 
the Lualaba to Ujiji was accompanied by indescribable hardships, which 
produced such an effect on his constitution that they eventually led to his 
death two years later. Soon after returning to Ujiji he met Henry M. Stanley, 
who had been sent by the New York Herald to “ find Dr. Livingstone, living 
or dead.” 
Stanley’s arrival certainly added two years more to Livingstone’s life, as 
by a series of accidents and frauds he found himself absolutely destitute 
of resources after his return to Ujiji. Together the two men made an ex¬ 
ploration of the north end of Lake Tanganyika, and then journeyed eastwards 
to Unyanyembe, half way to Zanzibar. Here Livingstone insisted on parting 
company with Stanley, though the latter earnestly entreated him to return 
to Europe ; but with Livingstone the idea of finding the ultimate sources of 
the Nile had become almost a monomania, and he was resolved not to return 
to Europe until he had mapped the upper waters of the Chambezi and the 
Luapula, together with the river Lualaba, which took its rise in the Katanga 
Highlands to the West. So he started off once more for Lake Bangweolo in 
August, 1872, passing round the south end of Lake Tanganyika, and reaching 
the eastern shores of Lake Bangweolo in the month of April, 1873. But his 
race was run, and he died at a village near the south end of that marshy lake 
•on or about the 1st of May, 1873. 
Meantime Nyasaland had not long remained without English visitors. In 
1867 Lieut. Young conducted an expedition to the south end of Lake Nyasa 
to examine into the reports as to the murder of Livingstone by the Angoni. 
Young (who only died a few months ago) conducted this expedition in a most 
remarkably successful manner. He left England in the middle of May, 1867, 
reached the Zambezi with three European companions and a steel boat on the 
25th of July, journeyed with his baggage in the steel boat (which was named 
The Search 1 ) and in a flotilla of smaller boats and canoes up the Zambezi and 
the Shire to the Murchison cataracts; conveyed the steel boat overland to the 
Upper Shire; reached Mponda’s town at the south end of Lake Nyasa; 
■collected a mass of information which conclusively proved that Livingstone 
was not killed but had started unmolested on his way to the West; returned 
to the Zambezi, and reached England at the beginning of 1868 after only eight 
months’ absence. 
Young had been greatly helped in his transit of the Shire Highlands by 
the Makololo whom Livingstone had left behind in that district after his 
withdrawal from the Zambezi in 1864. Those who have read the well-known 
works dealing with Dr. Livingstone’s explorations will remember that on 
his first journey of discovery up and down the Zambezi he had been accom¬ 
panied by certain faithful Makololo porters who had followed him from the 
Barutse country, on the Upper Zambezi. The so-called Makololo were a 
section of the Bechuana people who, leaving Basutoland after _ tribal 
1 And is still plying on the Shire, 
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