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Dr. Livingstone.
■ uninhabited jungles of Ukawendi. After suffering
considerably from hunger, they arrived safely at the
valley of Imrera, ten days after leaving Tanganyika,
and then followed much the same track as that pur¬
sued by Stanley on his inward journey. On the fifty-
third day from Ujiji, the expedition reached Un-
yanyembe without any adventures of importance.
It was with no small satisfaction that the wearied
travellers took possession of their comfortable quarters
at Unyanyembe, and opened the stores that there
awaited them. But their days were not spent in
idleness: while Stanley was preparing for his home¬
ward march, Livingstone was busy writing letters and
completing the entries in his journal It was now
that the doctor fully explained to his companion the
nature of the task he wished to perform before re¬
turning to England. It comprised a survey of the
remaining 180 miles which lie between the spot
where he had been compelled to turn back, and the
part of the watershed of the Nile already traced: a
visit to four fountains, said by the natives to rise
from an earthen mound near Katunga, and supply a
large volume of water to the Lualaba; and an ex¬
amination of certain excavations in Rua reported to
be inhabited by a large tribe, and to have running
rills in them. The great traveller estimated that it
would occupy him about eighteen months to cany
out this programme. Livingstone now delivered into
Stanley’s hands twenty letters for Great Britain, two
for New York, and one for Zanzibar, as well as his
journal for conveyance to his daughter; and having