. Stanley and the white heroes in Africa; being an edition from Mr. Stanley's late personal writings on the Emin Pasha relief expedition ... the newcomer with a present of rice,gave him news of Livingstone. He had met the old travelerat Ujiji, had lived in the next hut to him for three weeks, de-scribed him as looking old, with long gray mustaches andbeard, just recovered from severe illness, looking very wan;when fully recovered Livingstone intended to visit a countrycalled Manyuema by way of Marungu. We need not recount the many incidents of the journey forsome time to come; choice must be m
. Stanley and the white heroes in Africa; being an edition from Mr. Stanley's late personal writings on the Emin Pasha relief expedition ... the newcomer with a present of rice,gave him news of Livingstone. He had met the old travelerat Ujiji, had lived in the next hut to him for three weeks, de-scribed him as looking old, with long gray mustaches andbeard, just recovered from severe illness, looking very wan;when fully recovered Livingstone intended to visit a countrycalled Manyuema by way of Marungu. We need not recount the many incidents of the journey forsome time to come; choice must be made between them. Thefirst of May found them struggling through the mire and wa-ter of the ^Nlakata with a caravan bodily sick, from the exer-tion and fatigue of crossing so many rivers and wadingthrough marshes. For thirty miles from their camp was theMakata plain, an extensive swamp. The water was on an aver-age a foot in depth; in some places they plunged intoholes three, four, and even five feet deep. Plash, splash,plash, splash, were the only sounds they heard from the com-mencement of the march until they found the bomas occupy-. HOW STANLEY FOUND LIVINGSTONE. 431 ing the only dry spots along the line of march. This kind ofwork continued for two days, until they came in sight of theRudewa River, another powerful stream with banks brimful ofrushing rainwater. The acme of discomfort and vexation wasrealized on the five-mile march from the Rudewa branch. Af-ter three hours of splashing through four feet of water, theyreached dry land, and had traversed the swamp of not without the swamp and its horrors having left a dura-ble impression upon our minds; no one was disposed to forgetits fatigues, nor the nausea of travel which it almost engend-ered. Subsequently, they had to remember its passage stillmore vividly, and to regret that they had undertaken the jour-ney during the Masika season. When the animals died fromthis date by twos and threes, almost every day, unt
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