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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Since The Day I Had Left The Arabs, Sick And, Weary Almost With
My Life, But, Nevertheless, Imbued With The High Hope That My
Mission Would Succeed, 131 Days Had Elapsed - With What Vicissitudes
Of Fortune The Reader Well Knows - During Which Time I Had Journeyed
Over 1,200 Miles.
The myth after which I travelled through the wilderness proved to
be a fact; and never was the fact more apparent than when the
Living Man walked with me arm in arm to my old room, and I said
to him, "Doctor, we are at last HOME!"
CHAPTER XV. HOMEWARD BOUND. - LIVINGSTONE'S LAST WORDS
THE FINAL FAREWELL
Unyanyembe was now to me a terrestrial Paradise. Livingstone was
no less happy; he was in comfortable quarters, which were a palace
compared to his hut in Ujiji. Our store-rooms were full of the
good things of this life, besides cloth, beads, wire, and the
thousand and one impedimenta and paraphernalia of travel with which
I had loaded over one hundred and fifty men at Bagamoyo. I had
seventy-four loads of miscellaneous things, the most valuable of
which were now to be turned over to Livingstone, for his march back
to the sources of the Nile.
It was a great day with, us when, with hammer and chisel, I broke
open the Doctor's boxes, that we might feast our famished stomachs
on the luxuries which were to redeem us from the effect of the
cacotrophic dourra and maize food we had been subjected to in the
wilderness.
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