Dr.
Livingstone feels himself failing.

Intrigues of deserters.
_1st November, 1869._--Being now well rested, I resolved to go west to Lualaba and buy a canoe for its exploration.

Our course was west and south-west, through a country surpassingly beautiful, mountainous, and villages perched on the talus of each great mass for the sake of quick drainage.

The streets often run east and west, in order that the bright blazing sun may lick up the moisture quickly from off them.

The dwelling houses are generally in line, with public meeting houses at each end, opposite the middle of the street, the roofs are low, but well thatched with a leaf resembling the banana leaf, but more tough; it seems from its fruit to be a species of Euphorbia.