How I Found Livingstone Travels, Adventures And Discoveries In Central Africa Including Four Months Residence With Dr. Livingstone By Sir Henry M. Stanley
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Again, Consider That I Arrived
At Unyanyembe In The Latter Part Of June, And That Owing To A War I
Was Delayed Three Months At Unyanyembe, Leading A Fretful, Peevish
And Impatient Life.
But while I was thus fretting myself, and
being delayed by a series of accidents, Livingstone was being forced
back to Ujiji in the same month.
It took him from June to October
to march to Ujiji. Now, in September, I broke loose from the
thraldom which accident had imposed on me, and hurried southward
to Ukonongo, then westward to Kawendi, then northward to Uvinza,
then westward to Ujiji, only about three weeks after the Doctor's
arrival, to find him resting under the veranda of his house with
his face turned eastward, the direction from which I was coming.
Had I gone direct from Paris on the search I might have lost him;
had I been enabled to have gone direct to Ujiji from Unyanyembe
I might have lost him.
The days came and went peacefully and happily, under the palms of
Ujiji. My companion was improving in health and spirits. Life
had been brought back to him; his fading vitality was restored,
his enthusiasm for his work was growing up again into a height
that was compelling him to desire to be up and doing. But what
could he do, with five men and fifteen or twenty cloths?
"Have you seen the northern head of the Tangannka, Doctor?" I
asked one day.
"No; I did try to go there, but the Wajiji were doing their best
to fleece me, as they did both Burton and Speke, and I had not a
great deal of cloth.
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