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 420 DICK SANDS, THE BOY CAFTAIN. to return. Livingstone accompanied him as far as KWihara, and on the 3rd of the foUowing Match tfaey parted. do ; I am truly grateful/' said Livingstone. Stanley could scarcely repress his tears as he expressed hîs hope that the doctor might be spared to return to his friends safe and well. " Good-bye ! " said Stanley, choked with émotion. " Good-bye I " answered the vétéran feebly. Thus they parted, and in July, 1872, Stanley landed at Marseilles. Again David Livingstone resumed his researches in the interior. After remaining five months at Kwihara he gathered together a retinue consisting of his faithful followers Suzi, Chumah, Amoda, and Jacob Waînwright, and fifty-six men sent to him by Stanley, and lost no time in proceeding towards the south of Tanganyika. In the course of the ensuing month the caravan cncountered some frightful storms, but succeeded in reaching Moura. There had previously been an extrême drought, which was now followed by the rainy season, which entailed the loss of many of the bcasts of burden, in conséquence of the bites of the tzetsy. On the 24th of January they were at Chitounkwé, and in April, after rounding the east of Lake Bangweolo, they madc their way towards the village of Chitambo. At this point it was that Livingstone had parted company with certain slave-dealers, who had carried the information to old Alvez that the missionary traveller would very likely prOceed by way of Loanda to Kazohndé. But on the I3th of June, the very day before Negoro rcckoned on obtaining from Mrs. Weldon the letter which should be the means of securing him a hundred thousand dollars, tidings were circulated in the district that on the ist of May Dr. Livingstone had breathed his last. The report proved perfectly true. On the 29th of April the caravan had reached the village of Chitambo, the '^'^ctor so unwell that he was carried on a litter. The
 * You hâve done for me what few men would venture to.