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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I Assumed A Gruff Voice, And Ordered The Expedition To March,
And I Resolutely Turned My Face Toward The Eastern Sky.
But ever
and anon my eyes would seek that deserted figure of an old man in
grey clothes, who
With bended head and slow steps was returning to
his solitude, the very picture of melancholy, and each time I saw
him - as the plain was wide and clear of obstructions - I felt my
eyes stream, and my heart swell with a vague, indefinable feeling
of foreboding and sorrow.
I thought of his lonely figure sitting day after day on the
burzani of his house, by which all caravans from the coast would
have to pass, and of the many, many times he would ask the
new-comers whether they had passed any men coming along the road
for him, and I thought as each day passed, and his stores and
letters had not arrived how be would grieve at the lengthening
delay. I then felt strong again, as I felt that so long as I
should be doing service for Livingstone, I was not quite parted
from him, and by doing the work effectively and speedily the
bond of friendship between us would be strengthened. Such
thoughts spurred me to the resolution to march so quickly for
the coast, that Arabs in after time should marvel at the speed
with which the white man's caravan travelled from Unyanyembe
to Zanzibar.
I took one more look at him; he was standing near the gate of
Kwikuru with his servants near him.
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