CHAPTER XXXV 
Livingstone’s Last Journey 
W HILE Livingstone was busy in the explorations described 
in former chapters, other explorers were seeking to solve 
various parts of the African problem. Among these was 
Captain Richard F. Burton, who in 1858 discovered the great Lake 
Tanganyika, northeast of Lake Nyassa and out of the range of Liv¬ 
ingstone’s former journeys. This lake was the scene of the great 
Scotchman’s final enterprise. 
Having raised the necessary funds with great difficulty, he set 
out from Zanzibar in March, 1866, for the exploration of this import¬ 
ant inland sea, the southern end of which he reached after a march of 
great hardship. In this locality he remained for the succeeding three 
years, discovering the large lakes Moero and Bangweolo, his main 
purpose being to trace the course of a noble stream of this region, the 
Lualaba River, which he hoped’ to identify as the head stream of the 
Nile. As later explorers have discovered, it forms really the head 
waters of the Congo, its outlet being in the Atlantic instead of 
the Mediterranean. 
More than twenty years of persistent African travel had weak¬ 
ened the powers of the stalwart traveler, he having been a score and 
more of times prostrated by the severe African fevers. During this, 
his last venture, these fevers again frequently attacked him, and lack 
of medicines unfitted him to combat them. Early in 1869 he set out 
for Ujiji, the principal place on the eastern side of Lake Tanganyika, 
but was so debilitated that he had to be carried by his faithful fol¬ 
lowers. As soon as he felt able to walk, he set out for the Manyuema 
country, on the northwestern side of the lake. He reached Bambarre, 
a town in this country, on September 21, 1869. 
Manyuema was at that time quite unknown, though rumor had 
given its people a bad name. But this did not deter Livingstone, whose 
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