The Last Journals of David Livingstone in Central Africa, from 1865 to his Death Continued by a Narrative of his last moments and sufferings, obtained from his faithful servants, Chuma and Susi

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II. THE Loangwa was crossed on December 15, and on Christmas Day Livingstone lost his four goats, a loss which he felt very keenly; “for, whatever kind of food we had, a little milk made all right, and I felt strong and well, but coarse food, hard of digestion, without it, was very trying“Indeed, after this Livingstone suffered much from scarcity of food, and became greatly emaciated and weakened; and to intensely aggravate this, through the weakness of a boy and the knavery of a runaway slave, the medicine chest was stolen on January 20, 1867, a loss which was utterly irretrievable. “I felt,“he sadly says, “as if I had now received the sentence of death, like poor Bishop Mackenzie“Fever came upon him shortly after, and for a time became his almost constant companion; this, with the fearful dysentery and dreadful ulcers and other ailments which subsequently attacked him, and which he had no medicine to counteract, no doubt told fatally on even his iron frame, and made it in the end succumb to what he might otherwise have passed through with safety.

The Last Journals of David Livingstone in Central Africa, from 1865 to his Death. Continued by a Narrative of his last moments and sufferings, obtained from his faithful servants, Chuma and Susi.

By Horace Waller, Rector of Twywell, Northampton. In two vols. With portrait, maps, and illustrations. (London: John Murray, 1874.)