How I Found Livingstone Travels, Adventures And Discoveries In Central Africa Including Four Months Residence With Dr. Livingstone By Sir Henry M. Stanley
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One Day Asmani, Who Was Now Chief Of Livingstone's Caravan, The
Other Having Died Of Small-Pox, Two Or Three Days Before, Brought
Out A Tent To The Veranda Where, I Was Sitting Writing, And Shewed
Me A Packet Of Letters, Which To My Surprise Was Marked:
"To Dr. Livingstone,
" Ujiji,
"November 1st, 1870.
" Registered letters."
From November 1st, 1870, to February 10, 1871, just one hundred
days, at Bagamoyo! A miserable small caravan of thirty-three men
halting one hundred days at Bagamoyo, only twenty-five miles by
water from Zanzibar! Poor Livingstone! Who knows but he maybe
suffering for want of these very supplies that were detained so
long near the sea. The caravan arrived in Unyanyembe some time
about the middle of May. About the latter part of May the first
disturbances took place. Had this caravan arrived here in the
middle of March, or even the middle of April, they might have
travelled on to Ujiji without trouble.
On the 7th of July, about 2 P.M., I was sitting on the burzani as
usual; I felt listless and languid, and a drowsiness came over me;
I did not fall asleep, but the power of my limbs seemed to fail
me. Yet the brain was busy; all my life seemed passing in review
before me; when these retrospective scenes became serious, I
looked serious; when they were sorrowful, I wept hysterically;
when they were joyous, I laughed loudly. Reminiscences of
yet a young life's battles and hard struggles came surging into
the mind in quick succession:
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