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bearers. Ill. The Chitella bean.
Rains set in. Arrives at the Loangwa.


CHAPTER VII.
Crosses the Loangwa. Distressing march. The king-hunter. Great
hunger. Christmas feast necessarily postponed. Loss of goats.
Honey-hunters. A meal at last. The Babisa. The Mazitu again.
Chitembo's. End of 1866. The new year. The northern brim of the great
Loangwa Valley. Accident to chronometers. Meal gives out. Escape
from a Cobra capella. Pushes for the Chambezé. Death of Chitané.
Great pinch for food. Disastrous loss of medicine chest. Bead currency.
Babisa. The Chambezé. Reaches Chitapangwa's town. Meets Arab
traders from Zanzibar. Sends off letters. Chitapangwa and his people.
Complications.


CHAPTER VIII.
Chitapangwa's parting oath. Course laid for Lake Tanganyika.
Moamba's village. Another watershed. The Babemba tribe. Ill with
fever. Threatening attitude of Chibué's people. Continued illness.
Reaches cliffs overhanging Lake Liemba. Extreme beauty of the scene.
Dangerous fit of insensibility. Leaves the Lake. Pernambuco cotton.
Rumours of war between Arabs and Nsama. Reaches Chitimba's village.
Presents Sultan's letter to principal Arab, Hamees. The war in Itawa.
Geography of the Arabs. Ivory traders and slave-dealers. Appeal to the

Koran. Gleans intelligence of the Wasongo, to the eastward, and their
chief, Meréré. Hamees sets out against Nsama. Tedious sojourn.
Departure for Ponda. Native cupping.


CHAPTER IX.
Peace negotiations with Nsama. Geographical gleanings. Curious
spider. Reaches the River Lofu. Arrives at Nsama's. Hamees marries
the daughter of Nsama. Flight of the bride. Conflagration in Arab
quarters. Anxious to visit Lake Moero. Arab burial. Serious illness.
Continues journey. Slave-traders on the march. Reaches Moero.
Description of the Lake. Information concerning the Chambezé and
Luapula. Hears of Lake Bemba. Visits spot of Dr. Lacerda's death.
Casembe apprised of Livingstone's approach. Meets Mohamad
Bogharib. Lakelet Mofwé. Arrives at Casembe's town.


CHAPTER X.
Grand reception of the traveller. Casembe and his wife. Long stay in
the town. Goes to explore Moero. Despatch to Lord Clarendon, with
notes on recent travels. Illness at the end of 1867. Further exploration
of Lake Moero. Flooded plains. The River Luao. Visits Kabwabwata.
Joy of Arabs at Mohamad bin Salleh's freedom. Again ill with fever.
Stories of underground dwellings.


CHAPTER XI

Riot in the camp. Mohamad's account of his long imprisonment.
Superstitions about children's teeth. Concerning dreams. News of Lake
Chowambé. Life of the Arab slavers. The Katanga gold supply. Muabo.
Ascent of the Rua Mountains. Syde bin Habib. Birthday, 19th March,
1868. Hostility of Mpwéto. Contemplates visiting Lake Bemba. Nile
sources. Men desert. The shores of Moero. Visits Fungafunga. Return
to Casembe's. Obstructiveness of "Cropped-ears." Accounts of Pereira
and Dr. Lacerda. Major Monteiro. The line of Casembes. Casembe
explains the connection of the Lakes and the Luapula. Queen Moäri.
Arab sacrifice. Kapika gets rid of his wife.


CHAPTER XII.
Prepares to examine Lake Bemba. Starts from Casembe's 11th June,
1868. Dead leopard. Moenampanda's reception. The River Luongo.
Weird death-song of slaves. The forest grave. Lake Bemba changed to
Lake Bangweolo. Chikumbi's. The Imbozhwa people. Kombokombo's
stockade. Mazitu difficulties. Discovers Lake Bangweolo on 18th July,
1868. The Lake Chief Mapuni. Description of the Lake. Prepares to
navigate it. Embarks for Lifungé Island. Immense size of Lake.
Reaches Mpabala Island. Strange dream. Fears of canoe men. Return to
shore. March back. Sends letters. Meets Banyamwezi. Reviews recent
explorations at length. Disturbed state of country.


CHAPTER XIII.
Cataracts of the Kalongosi. Passage of the river disputed. Leeches and
method of detaching them. Syde bin Habib's slaves escape. Enormous
collection of tusks. Ill. Theory of the Nile sources. Tribute to Miss
Tinné. Notes on climate. Separation of Lake Nyassa from the Nile

system. Observations on Victoria Nyanza. Slaves dying. Repentant
deserters. Mohamad Bogharib. Enraged Imbozhwa. An attack. Narrow
escape. Renewed attack. A parley. Help arrives. Bin Juma. March from
the Imbozhwa country. Slaves escape. Burial of Syde bin Habib's
brother. Singular custom. An elephant killed. Native game-laws.
Rumour of Baker's Expedition. Christmas dinners.

ILLUSTRATIONS.
[DR. LIVINGSTONE, though no artist, had acquired a practice of
making rude sketches of scenes and objects, which have furnished
material for the Engravers in the Illustrations for this book.]
Full-page Illustrations.
1. PORTRAIT OF DR. LIVINGSTONE. (From a Photograph by
ANNAN) 2. SLAVERS REVENGING THEIR LOSSES 3. SLAVES
ABANDONED 4. CHITAPANGWA RECEIVING DR.
LIVINGSTONE 5. THE VILLAGE ON LAKE
LIEMBA--TANGANYIKA 6. THE ARRIVAL OF HAMEES' BRIDE
7. DISCOVERY OF LAKE BANGWEOLO
Smaller Illustrations.
1. DR. LIVINGSTONE'S HOUSE, ZANZIBAR 2. DHOW USED
FOR TRANSPORT OF DR. LIVINGSTONE'S CAMELS 3. A
THORN-CLIMBER 4. TOMAHAWK AND AXE 5. CARVED DOOR,
ZANZIBAR 6. TATTOO OF MATAMBWÉ 7. IMITATION OF
BASKET-WORK IN POTTERY 8. DIGGING-STICK WEIGHTED
WITH ROUND STONE 9. MANGANJA AND MACHINGA
WOMEN 10. TATOO ON WOMEN 11. CARVED STOOL MADE
OF A SINGLE WOODEN BLOCK 12. WOMEN'S TEETH
HOLLOWED OUT 13. MODE OF FORGING HOES 14. MALLET