Stanley and the white heroes in Africa; being an edition from Mr Stanley's late personal writings on the Emin Pasha relief expedition .. . hores of Lake Nyassa, they skirted the western coast ofthat body of water almost half-way to the northern end; then,by a three days journey to the westward, reached a village onthe banks of a tributary of theLoangwa. It was now the lat-ter part of September; and if they were to take advantage ofthe winter floods, they could not afford to go farther. Fromthis point, their path was, with slight variations, that bywhich they had come. Reaching the ship, they t
Stanley and the white heroes in Africa; being an edition from Mr Stanley's late personal writings on the Emin Pasha relief expedition .. . hores of Lake Nyassa, they skirted the western coast ofthat body of water almost half-way to the northern end; then,by a three days journey to the westward, reached a village onthe banks of a tributary of theLoangwa. It was now the lat-ter part of September; and if they were to take advantage ofthe winter floods, they could not afford to go farther. Fromthis point, their path was, with slight variations, that bywhich they had come. Reaching the ship, they took advan-tage of a rise about the middle of January to sail down theShire, and, after some delays, occasioned by waiting to takeon board some members of the helpless **Mission family ofBishop Mackenzie, the mission having now been abandoned,they reached Zanzibar April 16, 1864; and after two weeksspent there, directed the course of the Lady Nyassa to Bom-bay. Early in June, after sailing more than twenty-five hun- LIVINGSTONE THE GREAT EXPLORER. 371 dred miles, they sighted Bombay; the expedition to the Zam-besi had come to an 24 Hercules Falls, South Africa. CHAPTER XYI. LIYIKGSTOKES LAST JOUBJfEY. HE Zambesi expedition was substantially a failure; andno one felt this more keenly than its illustrious leader. vTv Not only had he spent thousands of pounds of the Gov- ernments money and of his own, without attaining anyappreciable result, or at least any such result as had been ex-pected, but his failure had brought the whole subject of Afri-can exploration into disfavor with his countrymen. He re-turned to England, a disappointed man. But although thepopular feeling was now as much against the exploration ofAfrica as at the close of the first journey it had been in favorof it, there were some whose interest was not lightly to bechanged. The president of the Eoyal Geographical Societystill held the work as of the same importance; and it was SirKoderick Murchison who, almos
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