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STANLEY’S SEARCH FOR LIVINGSTONE 
was nearly white. Such tidings as these were enough to induce Stan¬ 
ley to strain every nerve to hasten his steps, and we can readily believe 
how exasperating to a man of his personal vigor and promptitude 
were the many delays and obstacles he had to contend with between 
this point and his destination. 
The caravans had been twenty-nine days on the march, and they 
had covered 119 miles since leaving Bagamoyo. When encamped a 
day’s march from Simbanwenni, Stanley experienced his first attack 
of the mukunguru or fever of East Africa. He was destined to have 
no less than twenty-three of such attacks before regaining the shores 
of the Indian Ocean. 
The remedy, applied for three mornings in succession after the 
attack, was a quantum of 15 grains of quinine, taken in three doses of 
five grains each, every other hour from dawn to meridian. I may 
add that this treatment was perfectly successful in his case and in all 
others which occurred in the camp. 
Proceeding onwards and ever westward, the party arrived at 
the Makata valley, which the rainy season had converted into a per¬ 
fect savannah of slush and mire, and through which the carriers, as 
well as the beasts of burden, had’ the greatest difficulty in passing. 
Men fell out of the ranks; valuable bales of cloth, cases of powder 
and provisions were again and again, through the carelessness or 
stupidity of the carriers, allowed to get wet—no slight disaster; and 
what with the swollen streams and turgid pools, Stanley, who worked 
with almost superhuman energy, found the greatest difficulty in get¬ 
ting his caravan through at all. At the rate of less than a mile an 
hour, day after day, it dragged its slow length along, and it was with 
feelings of unusual relief that Stanley, with his men suffering from, 
dysentery and other ills contracted from the long march through forty 
miles of water, sometimes four feet in depth, arrived on the 4th of 
May at Rehenneko and encamped on the hilly slopes of the Usagara 
country. 
On May 226. two Arabs traveling west joined their caravans to 
Stanley’s, and, leaving the uplands behind, together they crossed the 
absolutely waterless and shadeless desert plain of Marenga Mkali. 
This wilderness passed, they found themselves in Ugogo, amid fields of 
