The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1874-04-09
26-NUMBER 27
RP livingstone

In the March number OF the Oesoa
f. Ifigh1cGys q detailed account is given
OF the reputed death Of DIR. Living
stone. dsr.Set from tie materials p
piled BY letters received from Lfeuten-
ant Cameron, DR.. Dillon, LieusSuani
Murphy and said ON Saiim. the
Arab Governor If Unyabyruaos.
From the article referred To We sx-
tract the following:
In March, lS73, DIR. LivinSstoDe
Reached Unyauyembe, and, after re-
eeiyiEg supplies from ZinzIbar, set out
with ninety men on his last Journey
in the following August. He proceed
cd IN southvesterly direction to the
southern extremity Of Lake Liemba,
the proionsatiOn of OfTanranyikI toward
the south. Thence he made his vay
70 tae northern shore OF Lake Bans
WeOlo, near The point where he wss in
July, 1868. But, being una Die to cross.
he passed round the eastern end of
the lake, fOrding the Cham beZe and
three smaller tributaries and, march
lng along its southern shore, he ap-
pears 70 have reached the point where
he expected to find the four fountains,
two Of which were, he eOnjecturetl, the
sources OF the Nile mentioned by
HsrOdOtus-
lt - then probable that he marched in
a nOrtherIy direction and explored the
region OF the Katanga copper mines:
for Lieutenant Cameron, who has been
lndefL tigab.e in collecting infOrma-
ton, was told by an Arab merchant
that he hsd seen DIR. Livingstone and
ms party, all well, some months pre-
vious AZ katanga- In returning they
bad To cross the Luapula ami work
their way eastward through an iuun-
dated country, in which, sometimes
Tor three hours at = time. The water
stood above ths waists OF the travel
lers- During this journey two Of the
mex died aud several deserted. When
going across the tract near Moira
AehinO, DR.. Livingstone was stack
ed by dysentery, brought on
by exposure and over fatigue.
According to one account ne got as
far ~ the district of LObisa on his
way back, to the east of BangweOlO,
where he died after ten Gr fifteen
days ILLNESS, probably in May or
April, 1873, il Sir Samuel Bakers
theory proves correct, at the very
source of the Nile, at the fountains Of
streams flowing into the south end Of
Lake rsnganyiks, the most distant
rvservoir Of the great river. When
Livingstone died his party numbered
seventy-nine men, among whom
We're few Mask boys and other
faithful servants. Chief among them
was Chumsh, who had been rescued
from slavery on the Fam besi,
anu who went on ahead to beg
for succor from Unyanyembe.
He seems To have arrived on the 18th
of October. He stated that the party
with DIR. Livingstone's body, was
from ten to twenty days march from
Unyanyembe, and was nearly starv-
ing; that they had also two boxes of
books wi h them; and that the Doc
tor, before his death, hsd told them
to fetch another box of papers which
be had left at Ujiji, and to tSke IL
down to the coast Chuma found the
East Coast Livingstone Search Expe-
ditiOn at UnyaByembe; and a tele-
gram, dated at Alden on February %,
informs US that while Lieutenant
Murphy IL bringing the body OF the
illustri0us traveller down to Zanzibar,
Lieutenant Cameron has gone OH
wards to Ujiji to recover DIR. Living
stones papers.