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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From Our Camp I Despatched Three Men To Zanzibar With Letters To
The American Consul, And Telegraphic Despatches For The
`Herald,'
with a request to the Consul that he would send the men back with
a small case or
Two containing such luxuries as hungry, worn-out,
and mildewed men would appreciate. The three messengers were
charged not to halt for anything - rain or no rain, river or
inundation - as if they did not hurry up we should catch them
before they reached the coast. With a fervent "Inshallah, bana,"
they departed.
On the 5th, with a loud, vigorous, cheery "Hurrah!" we plunged
into the depths of the wilderness, which, with its eternal silence
and solitude, was far preferable to the jarring, inharmonious
discord of the villages of the Wagogo. For nine hours we held on
our way, starting with noisy shouts the fierce rhinoceros, the
timid quagga, and the herds of antelopes which crowd the jungles
of this broad salina. On the 7th, amid a pelting rain, we entered
Mpwapwa, where my Scotch assistant, Farquhar, died. We had
performed the extraordinary march of 338 English statute miles
from the 14th of March to the 7th of April, or within twenty-four
days, inclusive of halts, which was a little over fourteen miles
a day.
Leukole, the chief of Mpwapwa, with whom I left Farquhar, gave the
following account of the death of the latter: -
"The white man seemed to be improving after you left him, until
the, fifth day, when, while attempting to rise and walk out of his
tent, he fell back; from that minute he got worse and worse, and
in the afternoon he died, like one going to sleep.
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