Gave Mr.Stanley a cheque for 5000 rupees on Stewart and Co., Bombay.

This 500_l._ is to be drawn if Dr.Kirk has expended the rest of the 1000_l._ If not, then the cheque is to be destroyed by Mr.Stanley.
_12th March, 1872._--Writing.
_13th March, 1872._--Finished my letter to Mr.Bennett of the _New York Herald_, and Despatch No.

3 to Lord Granville.
_14th March, 1872._--Mr.Stanley leaves.

I commit to his care my journal sealed with five seals: the impressions on them are those of an American gold coin, anna, and half anna, and cake of paint with royal arms.
Positively not to be opened.
[We must leave each heart to know its own bitterness, as the old explorer retraces his steps to the Tembe at Kwihara, there to hope and pray that good fortune may attend his companion of the last few months on his journey to the coast; whilst Stanley, duly impressed with the importance of that which he can reveal to the outer world, and laden with a responsibility which by this time can be fully comprehended, thrusts on through every difficulty.
There is nothing for it now but to give Mr.Stanley time to get to Zanzibar, and to shorten by any means at hand the anxious period which must elapse before evidence can arrive that he has carried out the commission entrusted to him.
As we shall see, Livingstone was not without some material to afford him occupation.

Distances were calculated from native report; preparations were pushed on for the coming journey to Lake Bangweolo; apparatus was set in order.