How I Found Livingstone

eir conduct, for the base desertion of an ally, who had, as a duty to friendship, taken up arms for their sake. Their "salaams"

take care of themselves, they must not consider me in the light of an ally any more. "I am satisfied," said I, "having seen your mode of fighting, that the war will not be ended in so short a time as you think it will. It took you five years, I hear, to conquer and kill Manwa Sera, you will certainly not conquer Mirambo in less than a year.* I am a white man, ac

, but the Wanyamwezi of Mkasiwa had shouted out that the "Musungu" was gone, and

uto. I determined to proceed more leisurely, and on the second day after the flight from Zimbizo, the

show better than anything else, my feelings and tho

prise, I should have been justly punished. But apart from my duty to the consideration with which the Arabs had received me, was the necessity of trying every method of reaching Livingstone. This road which the war with Mirambo has closed, is only a month's march from this place, and, if the road could be opened with my aid, sooner than without it, why should I refuse my aid? The attempt has been made for the second time to Ujiji-both have failed. I am going to try a

s their ardor for travelling. It is useless to hope that Wanyamwezi can be engaged, because it is against their custom to go with caravans, as carriers, during war time. My position is most serious. I have a good

ld, have gone; they said that I engaged them to go, t

om. Livingstone's caravan is also here; his goods consist of seventeen bales of cloth, twel

ot return to Zanzibar, and the road to the Nile is blocked up. He might, if he has men and stores, possibly reach Baker by travelling northwards, through Urundi, thence through Ruanda, Karagwah, Uganda, Unyoro, and Ubari to Gondokoro. Pagazis he cannot obtain, for the so

I hear, to Manyuema or Manyema. Manyuema is forty marches from the north of Nyassa. Livingstone was walking; he was dressed in American sheeting. He had lost all his cloth in Lake Liemba while crossing it in a boat. He had three canoes with him; in one he put his cloth, another he loaded with his boxes and some of his men, into the third he went himself with two servants and two fishermen.

poisoned him, or that he had been murdered in some other manner; but a personal interview with the Msawahili who brought the news informing me that Farquhar had succumbed to his dreadful illness has done away with that suspicion. So far as I could understand him, Farquhar had in the morning declared himself well enough to proceed, but in attem

y boy! Who will be the next?" I r

tters to Zanzibar. Shaw wa

oming to Unyanyembe. A detachment of Arabs and their slaves have started this morning to possess themselves of

strung. The Arabs are preparing for another sally against Mirambo. The ad

and scattered firing, plainly; and ascending to the top of my tembe, I saw with my glasses the smoke of the guns. Some of my men who were sent on to ascertain the cause came running back with the information that Mirambo

o were rushing to our settlement at Kwihara for protection. From these people we heard the sad information that the noble Khamis bin Abdullah, his

me of the principal Arabs who happened to be with him had ascended to the roof of his tembe, and with his spyglass he had looked towards the direction of the firing. To his great astonishment he saw the plain around Tabora fil

noble Khamis, also offered to go with him. After hastily arming eighty of his slaves, contrary to the advice of his prudent friends, he sallied out, and was soon face to face with his cunning and determined enemy Mirambo. This chief, upon seeing the Arabs advance towards him, gave orders to retreat slowly. Khamis, deceived by this, rushed on with his friends after them. Suddenly Mirambo ordered his men to advance upon them in a body, and at the sight of the precipitate rush upon their party, Khamis's slaves incontinently took to their heels, never even deigning to cast a glance behind them, leaving their master to the fate which was now overtakin

fat over the stomach and abdomen, and, lastly, a bit from each heel, cut off, by the savage allies of Mirambo. And in the same condition were found the bodies of his adopted son and fallen friends. The flesh and skin thus taken from the bodies was taken, of course, by the waganga or medicine men, to make wh

tlement at Kwihara, almost the whole of Tabora in flames,

, and Wangwana refugees with guns in their hands, driven out of Tabora, asked to be admitted into our tembe to assist in its defence. Livingstone's men were also collected, and invited to help defend their master's goods against Mirambo's supposed attack. By night I had one hundred a

to him have become the property of the African Bonaparte. My tembe is in as efficient a state of defence as its style and means of defence will allow. Rifle-pits surround the house outside, and all native huts that obstructed the view have been torn down, and all trees and shrubs which might serve as a

will start en masse for the coast, and give the country up to Mirambo. If such are their intentions, and they are really carried into effect, I shall be in a pretty mes

still waving above my house, and

it,-asking myself, Was it prudent? Ought I to go? What will become of the people if I were killed? Will they not desert me again? What was the fate of Khamis bin Abdullah?-I sent word that I would not go;

i pagazi, and a beard. If he comes, all the men carrying umbrellas will have bullets rained on them in the hope that one lucky bu

call him a professor of minor philosophy. He is generally so sententious-fond of aphorisms, and a very deliberate character. I was astonished to find him so despairing. His aphoris

nd small slugs of iron, and advised him not to f

deported himself to Kazima, a place

ambo asked for a day's grace, to eat the beef he had stolen from them. He has asked them imp

ful aspect, and fugitives no longer thro

ht; and when the Arabs went in force to attac

about to make friends with the northern Watuta, but Mirambo was ahead of them. They had talked of invading Mirambo's territory the seco

agwah roads are more firmly closed than ever. Indeed many of the influentia

e to proceed with me to Ujiji, at treble prices. Each man is offered 30 doti, ordinary hire of a carrier being only from 5 to 10 doti to Ujiji. I want fift

-day of Mirambo. Shaw i

o-day, but, except on minor phi

avan to Ujiji, by a southern road through northern Ukonongo and Ukawe

re already. The Arabs take such a long time to come to a conclusion. Advice is plentiful, and words are as numerous as the blades of grass in our valley; all that is wanting indecision. The Arabs' hope and stay is dead-Khamis bin Abdullah is no more. Where are the other

o move from here. It is such a drowsy, sleepy, slow, dreaming country. Arabs, Wangwana, Wanyamwezi, are all a

even cooked little luxuries for him myself. And, while I am straining every nerve to get ready for Ujiji, Sh

, you think probably that I have been sent here to find the depth of the Tanganika. Not a bit of it, man; I was told to find Livingstone. It is to find Livingstone I am here. It is to find Livingstone I am going. Don't you see, old fellow, the importance of the mission; don't you see what reward you will get from Mr. Bennet

life in him. I put sugar, and eggs, and seasoned it with lemon and spice. "Drink, Shaw," said I, "and forget your infirmities. You are not sick, dear fellow; it is only ennui you

en in the attack upon Tabora, while the Arabs' losses were, five Arabs, thirteen freemen and eight slaves, besides three

zibar. What a good thing it is that one's friends, even in far America, think of t

caravan to go under my charge to Ujiji, but he would not li

y force is gradually increasing, though some of my old soldiers are falling off. U

diers; and was one of those men who accompanied Speke to Egypt. Ba

; the Ruga-Ruga are out in the forests; the Wakonongo are coming from the south to help Mirambo; the Washensi are at war, one tribe against another." My men are getti

half of new American sheeting. After it was placed properly in its narrow bed, a sloping roof of sticks, covered over with matting and old canvas, was made, to prevent the earth from falling over the body. The grave was then filled, the soldiers laughing merrily. On the top of the grave was planted a small shrub, and in

another said he thought "Ngombe" (a cow) would suit the boy-child, another thought he ought to be called "Mirambo," which raised a loud laugh. Bombay thought "Bombay Mdogo" would suit my black-skinned infant very well. Ulimengo, however, after looking at his quick eyes, a

rm for the young of the blu

odfather, holding him over the water, "let his name henceforth be Kalulu, and let no man take

n is increasi

anticipate an attack on Kwihara. It turned out, however, to be a salute fired in hon

ck was made on that place by Mirambo and his Watuta allies. It also warned him to bid the people of Kwihara h

village, but when he attempted to storm Mfuto, he was repulsed with severe loss, losing three of his principal men. Upon withdrawing his forces from the a

in in the attack were brought

truct Abdul Kader in the art of being useful, his head is so befogged with the villainous fumes of Unyamwezi tobacco, that he wanders bewildered about, breaking dishes, and upsetting cooked dainties, until I get so exasperated

in Unyanyembe is almost finished, and I am still

h in the forests of Wilyankuru. Two or three huge pots of pombe failed to satisfy the raging thirst which the vigorous exercise they

as much as possible, I reduced each load from 70 lbs. to 50 lbs., by which I hope to be enabled t

ll be able to carry anything, but I am in hopes that other men may be engaged to take th

des two guides, named Asmani and Mabruki. If vastness of the human form could terrify any one, certainly Asmani's appearance is well ca

rewell feast, to celebrate our departure

f rice, twenty large loaves of bread made of Indian corn-flour, one hundred eggs, 10 lbs. of butter, and five gallons of sweet-milk, were the

was brought in in five gallon pots, and the people com

fever to-day, which has postponed our dep

sick. Thani Sakhburi suggested to me that I might stay another month. In answer, I told them tha

he has gone away, with a promise to write to Seyd Burghash to tell him how o

eel as though I were imprisoned between stone walls. But why should I feel as if baited by these stupid, slow-witted Arabs and their warnings and croakings? I fancy a suspicion haunts my mind, as I write, that there lies some motive behind all this. I wonder if these Arabs tell me all these things to keep me here, in the hope that I might be induced another time to assist them in their war with Mirambo! If they think so, they are much mistaken, for I have taken a solemn, enduring oath, an oath to be kept while the least hope of life remains in me, not to be tempted to break the resolution I have formed, never to give up the search, until I find Livingstone alive, or find his dead body; and

explain far better than any amount of descriptive writing, even of the most graphic, the nature of the life I led. There they are, unexaggerated, in their literality, precisely as I conc