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 A RAY OF HOPE, 419 supplies that had been thoughtfully forwarded to him by the Oriental Society at Calcutta. His great aim now was to ascend the lake, and reach the sources of the Nile. On the 2ist of September he was at Bambarré, in the country of the cannibal Manyuema, upon the Lualaba, the river afterwards ascertained by Stanley to be the Upper Zaire or Congo. At Mamobela the doctor was ill for twenty-four days, tended only by three followers who contînued faithful ; but in July he made a vigorous effort, and although he was reduced to a skeleton, made his way back to Ujijî. During this long time no tîdings of Livingstone reached Europe, and many were the mîsgivings lest the rumours of his death were only too true. He was himself, too, almost despairing as to receiving any help. But help was doser at hand than he thought. On the 3rd of November, only eleven days after his return to Ujiji, some gun-shots were heard within half a mile of the lake. The doctor went out to ascertain whence they proceeded, and had not gone far before a white man stood before him. " You are Dr. Livingstone, I présume," said the stranger, raising his cap. " Yes, sir, I am Dr. Livingstone, and am happy to sec you," answered the doctor, smiling kindly. The two shook each other warmly by the hand. The new arrivai was Henry Stanley, the correspondent of the New York Herald^ who had been sent out by Mr. Bennett, the editor, in search of the great African explorer. On receiving his orders in October, 1870, wîthout a day's unnccessary delay he had embarked at Bombay for Zanzibar, and, after a journey involving considérable péril, had arrived safely at Ujiji. Very soon the two travellers found themselves on the best of terms, and set out together on an excursion to the north of Tanganyika. They proceeded as far as Cape Magala, and decided that the chief outlet of the lake must be an affluent of the Lualaba, a conclusion that was subse- quently confîrmed by Cameron. Towards the end of the year Stanley began to prépare E e 2