Chapter I: Front Matter

THE LAST JOURNALS

OF

DAVID LIVINGSTONE,

IN CENTRAL AFRICA, FROM 1865 TO HIS DEATH.

CONTINUED BY A NARRATIVE OF HIS LAST MOMENTS AND SUFFERINGS, OBTAINED FROM HIS FAITHFUL SERVANTS CHUMA AND SUSI

BY HORACE WALLER, F.R.G.S., RECTOR OF TWYWELL, NORTHAMPTON.

IN TWO VOLUMES.--VOL. II. [1869-1873]

WITH PORTRAIT, MAPS, AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET. 1874.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

Bad beginning of the new year. Dangerous illness. Kindness of
Arabs. Complete helplessness. Arrive at Tanganyika. The Doctor
is conveyed in canoes. Kasanga Islet. Cochin-China fowls.
Reaches Ujiji. Receives some stores. Plundering hands. Slow
recovery. Writes despatches. Refusal of Arabs to take letters.
Thani bin Suellim. A den of slavers. Puzzling current in Lake
Tanganyika. Letters sent off at last. Contemplates visiting the
Manyuema. Arab depredations. Starts for new explorations in
Manyuema, 12th July, 1869. Voyage on the Lake. Kabogo East.
Crosses Tanganyika. Evil effects of last illness. Elephant
hunter's superstition. Dugumbé. The Lualaba reaches the
Manyuema. Sons of Moenékuss. Sokos first heard of. Manyuema
customs. Illness.

CHAPTER II.

Prepares to explore River Lualaba. Beauty of the Manyuema
country. Irritation at conduct of Arabs. Dugumbé's ravages.
Hordes of traders arrive. Severe fever. Elephant trap. Sickness
in camp. A good Samaritan. Reaches Mamohela and is prostrated.
Beneficial effects of Nyumbo plant. Long illness. An elephant of
three tusks. All men desert except Susi, Chuma, and Gardner.
Starts with these to Lualaba. Arab assassinated by outraged
Manyuema. Returns baffled to Mamohela. Long and dreadful
suffering from ulcerated feet. Questionable cannibalism. Hears
of four river sources close together. Resumé of discoveries.
Contemporary explorers. The soko. Description of its habits. Dr.
Livingstone feels himself failing. Intrigues of deserters

CHAPTER III.

Footsteps of Moses. Geology of Manyuema land. "A drop of
comfort." Continued sufferings. A stationary explorer.
Consequences of trusting to theory. Nomenclature of Rivers and
Lakes. Plunder and murder is Ujijian trading. Comes out of hut
for first time after eighty days' illness. Arab cure for
ulcerated sores. Rumour of letters. The loss of medicines a
great trial now. The broken-hearted chief. Return of Arab ivory
traders. Future plans. Thankfulness for Mr. Edward Young's
Search Expedition. The Hornbilled Phoenix. Tedious delays. The
bargain for the boy. Sends letters to Zanzibar. Exasperation of
Manyuema against Arabs. The "Sassassa bird." The disease
"Safura."

CHAPTER IV.

Degraded state of the Manyuema. Want of writing materials.
Lion's fat a specific against tsetse. The Neggeri. Jottings
about Meréré. Various sizes of tusks. An epidemic. The strangest
disease of all! The New Year. Detention at Bambarré. Goître.
News of the cholera. Arrival of coast caravan. The
parrot's-feather challenge. Murder of James. Men arrive as
servants. They refuse to go north. Part at last with
malcontents. Receives letters from Dr. Kirk and the Sultan.
Doubts as to the Congo or Nile. Katomba presents a young soko.
Forest scenery. Discrimination of the Manyuema. They "want to
eat a white one." Horrible bloodshed by Ujiji traders. Heartsore
and sick of blood. Approach Nyañgwé. Reaches the Lualaba

CHAPTER V.

The Chitoka or market gathering. The broken watch. Improvises
ink. Builds a new house at Nyañgwé on the bank of the Lualaba.
Marketing. Cannibalism. Lake Kamalondo. Dreadful effect of
slaving. News of country across the Lualaba. Tiresome
frustration. The Bakuss. Feeble health. Busy scene at market.
Unable to procure canoes. Disaster to Arab canoes. Rapids in
Lualaba. Project for visiting Lake Lincoln and the Lomamé.
Offers large reward for canoes and men. The slave's mistress.
Alarm, of natives at market. Fiendish slaughter of women by
Arabs. Heartrending scene. Death on land and in the river.
Tagamoio's assassinations. Continued slaughter across the river.
Livingstone becomes desponding

CHAPTER VI.

Leaves for Ujiji. Dangerous journey through forest. The Manyuema
understand Livingstone's kindness. Zanzibar slaves. Kasongo's.
Stalactite caves. Consequences of eating parrots. Ill. Attacked
in the forest. Providential deliverance. Another extraordinary
escape. Taken for Mohamad Bogharib. Running the gauntlet for
five hours. Loss of property. Reaches place of safety. Ill.
Mamohela. To the Luamo. Severe disappointment. Recovers. Severe
marching. Reaches Ujiji. Despondency. Opportune arrival of Mr.
Stanley. Joy and thankfulness of the old traveller. Determines
to examine north end of Lake Tanganyika. They start. Reach the
Lusizé. No outlet. "Theoretical discovery" of the real outlet.
Mr. Stanley ill. Returns to Ujiji. Leaves stores there.
Departure for Unyanyembé with Mr. Stanley. Abundance of game.
Attacked by bees. Serious illness of Mr. Stanley. Thankfulness
at reaching Unyanyembé

CHAPTER VII.

Determines to continue his work. Proposed route. Refits.
Robberies discovered. Mr. Stanley leaves. Parting messages.
Mteza's people arrive. Ancient Geography. Tabora. Description of
the country. The Banyamwezi. A Baganda bargain. The population
of Unyamyembe. The Mirambo war. Thoughts on Sir Samuel Baker's
policy. The cat and the snake. Firm faith. Feathered neighbours.
Mistaken notion concerning mothers. Prospects for missionaries.
Halima. News of other travellers. Chuma is married

CHAPTER VIII.

Letters arrive at last. Sore intelligence. Death of an old
friend. Observations on the climate. Arab caution. Dearth of
Missionary enterprise. The slave trade and its horrors.
Progressive barbarism. Carping benevolence. Geology of Southern
Africa. The fountain sources. African elephants. A venerable
piece of artillery. Livingstone on Materialism. Bin Nassib. The
Baganda leave at last. Enlists a new follower

CHAPTER IX.

Short years in Buganda. Boys' playthings in Africa. Reflections.
Arrival of the men. Fervent thankfulness. An end of the weary
waiting. Jacob Wainwright takes service under the Doctor.
Preparations for the journey. Flagging and illness. Great heat.
Approaches Lake Tanganyika. The borders of Fipa. Lepidosirens
and Vultures. Capes and islands of Lake Tanganyika. High
mountains. Large Bay

CHAPTER X.

False guides. Very difficult travelling. Donkey dies of tsetse
bites. The Kasonso family. A hospitable chief. The River Lofu.
The nutmeg tree. Famine. Ill. Arrives at Chama's town. A
difficulty. An immense snake. Account of Casembe's death. The
flowers of the Babisa country. Reaches the River Lopoposi.
Arrives at Chituñkué's. Terrible marching. The Doctor is borne
through the flooded country