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 244 I^ICK SANDS, THE BOY CAPTAIN. stone's corpse, which was being borne to the eastern cpast by his faithful followers. Unshaken in his résolve to make hîs way rîght across the continent, Cameron still pushed onwards to the west He passed through Unyan- yembe and Uganda, and reached Kawele, where he secured ail Livingstone*s papers. After exploring Lake Tangan- yika he crosscd the mountaîns of Bambarre, and finding hîmself unable to descend the course of the Lualaba, he traversed the provinces devastated and depopulated by war and the slave-trade, Kilemba, Urua, the sources of the Lomami, Ulanda, and Lovalé, and having crossed the Coanza, he sîghted the Atlantic and reached the port of St Philip de Bcnguela, after a journey that had occupied three years and five months. Cameron*s two companions, Dr, Dillon and Robert Moffat, both succumbed to the hardships of the expédition. The intrepid Englishman was soon to be followed înto the ficld by an American, Mr. Henry Moreland Stanley. It is universally known how the undaunted correspondent of the New York Herald, having been despatclied in search of Livingstonc, found the vétéran missionary at Ujiji, on the borders of Lake Tanganyika, on the 3ist of October, 1871. But what he had undertaken in the course of humanity Stanley longed to continue in the interests of science, his prime object being to make a thorough investi- gation of the Lualaba, of which, in his fîrst expédition, he had only been ablc to get a partial and imperfect survey. Accordingly, whilst Cameron was still deep in the provinces of Central Africa, Stanley started from Bagamoyo in Novcmber, 1874. Twenty-one months later he quitted Ujiji, which had been decimated by small-pox, and in scvcnly-four days accomplishcd the passage of the lake and reached Nyangwc, a great slave-market prcviously visited Ijoth by Livingstone and Cameron. He was also présent at some of the horrible razzias, perpetrated by the ofïîcers of the Sultan of Zanzibar in the districts of the Marunzu and Manyuema. In order to be in a position to descend the Lualaba toits very mouth, Stanley engaged at Nyangwe 140 porters and