LIVINGSTONE'S LAST JOURNEY 
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On the 10th of November, 1871, a well-equipped caravan entered 
Ujiji to the usual accompaniment of gun-firing, shouting and singing. 
Tents, saddles, kettles, and a large bath figured prominently on the 
heads of the pagazis or carriers. I11 front of the advancing company 
the American flag was carried, proclaiming to Livingstone the nation¬ 
ality of the new arrival. The caravan was that which was fitted out 
by Mr. Gordon Bennett, of the New York Herald, and the white 
man in command, who came forward with such emotion to grasp the 
doctor’s hands, was Henry M. Stanley, Welsh by birth and American 
by adoption, and the traveling correspondent of that enterprising 
paper. He came with unlimited resources at his back, not only to find 
Livingstone, but to relieve him as well. 
Owing to a native war which had closed the ordinary caravan 
route, Stanley had been obliged to leave most of his stores at Unyan- 
yembe, the great Arab settlement between Ujiji and the east coast, and 
reach the lake by a circuitous path. It was arranged therefore that 
he and Livingstone should return together to Unyanyembe, and that 
the doctor, who in spite of his many sufferings was determined not to 
go home till he had finished his work, should there receive a sufficient 
quantity of cloth, beads and stores for his further explorations. While 
waiting at Ujiji, however, Stanley and he proceeded to the north end 
of the lake to ascertain, once and for all, if the river Lusizi drained the 
Tanganyika or merely flowed into it. The latter was found to be the 
case and the long-disputed question of the connection of the Tangan¬ 
yika with the Victoria Nyanza or the Albert Nyanza was decided in 
the negative. 
On returning from this discovery Mr. Stanley was prostrated 
by fever; and, indeed, throughout the journey to Unyanyembe, which 
had been postponed for some weeks on account of his illness, he suf¬ 
fered more or less from fever, and at times was so weak that he had 
to be carried on the march. When Unyanyembe was reached—on the 
18th of February, 1872—Stanley handed over to the doctor a large 
amount of stores of every description, together with some goods which 
had been sent to Livingstone from England. The latter included four 
flannel shirts from his daughter Agnes, and two pairs of good English 
boots from Horace Waller. These presents were particularly web 
