The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in central Africa . d the Luapula, and this faithful and sorely-tried servant wasdoomed to end his career at this spot! According to custom, a special stable was built for him closeto the men. Li the middle of the night a great disturbance,coupled with the shouting of Amoda, aroused the camp. Themen rushed out, and found the stable broken down, and the don-key gone. Snatching some logs, they set fire to the grass, as itwas pitch dark, and by the light saw a lion close to the body ofthe poor animal, which was quite dead. Those who had caughtup their guns
The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in central Africa . d the Luapula, and this faithful and sorely-tried servant wasdoomed to end his career at this spot! According to custom, a special stable was built for him closeto the men. Li the middle of the night a great disturbance,coupled with the shouting of Amoda, aroused the camp. Themen rushed out, and found the stable broken down, and the don-key gone. Snatching some logs, they set fire to the grass, as itwas pitch dark, and by the light saw a lion close to the body ofthe poor animal, which was quite dead. Those who had caughtup their guns on the first alarm fired a volley, and the lion madeoff. It was evident that the donkey had been seized by the nose,and instantly killed. At daylight the spoor showed that the * The men consider it five diiys march only carrying a gun from the Molilamoto the bank of the Luapnla—this in rough reckoning, at the rate of native traveling,would give a distance of say one hundred and twenty to one hundred and fifty miles.—Ed. 524 LIVINGSTONES LAST An old Servant destroyed. guns had taken effect. The lions blood lay in a broad track(for he was apparently injured in the back, and could only draghimself along); but the foot-prints of a second lion were too plainto make it advisable to track him far in the thick cover he hadreached, and so the search was abandoned. The body of thedonkey was left behind ; but two canoes remained near the vil-lage, and it is most probable that it went to make a feast at Chi-salamalamas. Traveling through incessant swamp and water, they were fainto make their next stopping-place in a spot where an enormousant-hill spread itself out—a small island in the waters. A firewas lighted, and by emploving hoes, most of them dug some-thing like a form to sleep in on the hard earth. Thankful to leave such a place, their guide led them next dayto the village of Kawinga, whom they describe as a tall man, ofsingularly light color, and he owner of a gun,
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