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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Besides, My Own
Personal Feelings Were Involved In The Case.
If Livingstone
came to any harm through any indiscretion of mine while he was
with me, it would immediately be said, "Ah!
Had he not
accompanied Stanley, he would have been alive now."
I took out my chart - the one I had made myself - in which I had
perfect faith, and I sketched out a route which would enable us
to reach Unyanyembe without paying a single cloth as tribute,
and without encountering any worse thing than a jungle, by which
we could avoid all the Wavinza and the plundering Wahha. This
peaceable, secure route led by water, south, along the coast of
Ukaranga and Ukawendi, to Cape Tongwe. Arriving at Cape Tongwe,
I should be opposite the village of Itaga, Sultan Imrera, in the
district of Rusawa of Ukawendi; after which we should strike my
old road, which I had traversed from Unyanyembe, when bound for
Ujiji. I explained it to the Doctor, and he instantly recognised
its feasibility and security; and if I struck Imrera, as I
proposed to do, it would demonstrate whether my chart was correct
or not.
We arrived at Ujiji from our tour of discovery, north of the
Tanganika, December 13th; and from this date the Doctor commenced
writing his letters to his numerous friends, and to copy into his
mammoth Letts's Diary, from his field books, the valuable
information he had acquired during his years of travel south and
west of the Tanganika.
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