Stanley and the white heroes in Africa; being an edition from Mr Stanley's late personal writings on the Emin Pasha relief expedition .. . s them-selves were largely responsible. But Livingstones was toogreat a mind to be shaken by such adverse winds as these; andhe pressed steadily forward. There is yet another element of sadness in these early pagesof his journal. Even in the first stages of his journey, therewas again laid bare to his eyes the great open sore of theworld, as the slave-trade has fitly been styled. In a littlemore than two months after leaving the coast, the first indica-tion
Stanley and the white heroes in Africa; being an edition from Mr Stanley's late personal writings on the Emin Pasha relief expedition .. . s them-selves were largely responsible. But Livingstones was toogreat a mind to be shaken by such adverse winds as these; andhe pressed steadily forward. There is yet another element of sadness in these early pagesof his journal. Even in the first stages of his journey, therewas again laid bare to his eyes the great open sore of theworld, as the slave-trade has fitly been styled. In a littlemore than two months after leaving the coast, the first indica-tions that they were on the track of the slave-traders appear-ed. First, they passed by a woman tied by the neck to a tree,and dead; the people of the surrounding country explainedthat she had been unable to keep up with the other slaved ina gang, and her master had determined that she should not be-come the property of any one else if she recovered after rest-ing a time. They saw others tied up in a similar manner, andothers lying in the path shot or stabbed, a pool of their ownblood surrounding them. The explanation which the traveler. LIVINGSTONE *S LAST JOURNEr. 375 invariably received was that the Arab who owned these vic-tims was enraged at losing his money by the slaves becomingunable to march, and vented his spleen by murdering Livingstone remarks that the traders are quite well awarethat such an example as this spurs the others to renewed en-deavors to keep up with the march, even when their strengthis rapidly failing them. In other cases, they found slaves whowere dying of starvation, having been abandoned because theycould not go on, or because the trader found his stock of pro-visions insufficient for those under his charge. On the 8th of August, he again reached the shores of LakeNyassa, this time at the mouth of the Masinje River. It wasas if I had come back to an old home I never expected againto see, he writes; and pleasant to bathe in the deliciouswaters a
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