Stanley and the white heroes in Africa; being an edition from Mr Stanley's late personal writings on the Emin Pasha relief expedition .. . si, the middle of December; and reached the Cham-beze late in the following January (1867). But before theygot to the banks of this latter river, they had met with a losswhich affected the whole after history of the expedition; andthe editor of Livingstones Last Journals has advanced thestatement that this loss materially hastened his death, by leav-ing him without the means of counteracting fever, and thusallowing his constitution to be undermined. The des
Stanley and the white heroes in Africa; being an edition from Mr Stanley's late personal writings on the Emin Pasha relief expedition .. . si, the middle of December; and reached the Cham-beze late in the following January (1867). But before theygot to the banks of this latter river, they had met with a losswhich affected the whole after history of the expedition; andthe editor of Livingstones Last Journals has advanced thestatement that this loss materially hastened his death, by leav-ing him without the means of counteracting fever, and thusallowing his constitution to be undermined. The desertion of so large a number of his men in the veryoutstart of the expedition had made him dependent upon thepeople of the country through which he passed for porters andfor guides; the Johanna men had been intended chiefly for thelatter purpose. They were traveling through the forest near the Lobo, hav-ing just set out from Lisunga. Their guides were two Waiyauwho had joined them some time before, and who were consid-ered perfectly trustworthy because of their uniform good con-duct ever since they had joined the caravan. A boy named. Livingstones last journey. 379 Baraka, who was very careful, had charge of the medicinebox, which was packed with a parcel containing ^ve largecloths and all Barakas clothing and beads. The Waiyau of-fered to exchange burdens for a while with Baraka, his own be-ing the lighter (his real reason was that his own contained nocloth). Baraka consented. The fugitives watched theirchance, and suddenly disappeared in the dense forest. Be-sides Barakas package, they took all the dishes, a large boxof powder, some flour, for which a high price had been paid,the tools, two guns, and a cartridge-pouch. The loss of thesethings was bad enough, but the great loss was the says: T felt as if I had now received the sen-tence of death, like poor Bishop Mackenzie, whose medicineshad been wetted and rendered worthless by the upsetting of aboat. The
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