. Pioneers in South Africa . ge on 1 May, 1873. But the work of Livingstone, especially his earnestpleading for a suppression of the slave trade in the heartof Africa, produced results which have scarcely slackenedor tarried in their effect down to the present day. Abelated Livingstone Relief Expedition of the Royal Geo-graphical Society, led by Commander Verney LovettCameron, crossed Africa from Zanzibar to years afterwards came the journey of JosephThomson across the Nyasa-Tanganyika plateau andround the south-west coast of Tanganyika. But morenotable than any was the second jo
. Pioneers in South Africa . ge on 1 May, 1873. But the work of Livingstone, especially his earnestpleading for a suppression of the slave trade in the heartof Africa, produced results which have scarcely slackenedor tarried in their effect down to the present day. Abelated Livingstone Relief Expedition of the Royal Geo-graphical Society, led by Commander Verney LovettCameron, crossed Africa from Zanzibar to years afterwards came the journey of JosephThomson across the Nyasa-Tanganyika plateau andround the south-west coast of Tanganyika. But morenotable than any was the second journey of H. , undertaken to finish Livingstones work. Aftercircumnavigating the Victoria Nyanza, and proving thatit was the big lake that Speke had imagined, Stanleyreached the upper Congo at Nyangwe, where Livingstonehad left it, and from Nyangwe followed that mightystream down to its outlet in the Atlantic Ocean. Within two years of Livingstones death Scottishmissionaries were at work in Nyasaland, where they laid. *3fc LIVINGSTONE AND STANLEY AT UJIJI Livingstones Great Journeys 295 the foundations of the present Nyasaland the next decade (the eighties of the nineteenth century)the British protectorate or sphere of influence was carried(by the present writer, amongst others) northwards fromBechuanaland to Tanganyika. The Congo IndependentState was founded by Sir Henry Stanley (as he afterwardsbecame) and a British protectorate was declared overeastern Equatorial Africa, which soon afterwards led to theinclusion of Uganda. Between 1885 and 1892 the Ger-mans founded their colony of East Africa, and their greatleader, Hermann von Wissmann, penetrated in his attackson the slave-trading tribes into the country of the dreadedAwemba, between the Chambezi and Tanganyika. By theclose of the nineteenth century, in less than thirty yearsfrom the death of Livingstone, the far-spread, devastatingslave trade had been absolutely abolished, except whereit lingered u
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