Fragment of Field Diary XII
David Livingstone

Date(s) of composition: 24-28 December 1868
Repository: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine. Library, London, United Kingdom
Shelfmark: 67551
Clendennen & Cunningham number(s): Field Diaries, 25b
Digital edition and date: Livingstone Online, 2017
Publisher: University of Maryland Libraries, College Park, MD, USA
Project ID: liv_000066
Critical encoding: Adrian S. Wisnicki, Heather F. Ball
Encoding dates: 2017-06-03, 2017-06-06

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24th Decr 1868 Five people
sick detain us today -

5

25th Christmas day - we
cannot get any food save
the coarsest to buy - not
a fowl nor a goat - Syde
10& Mpamari having
plenty of copper can buy
whey we cannot - March
2 ½ hours N E & over the
prolongation of Kalanga mt
15which is over 2000 feet above
Lofunso - rocks coarse grey
sandstone with boulders of
Porphyry - to Kapeta or Kasangolo

a trading party came to
20us from Ujiji - & report
that two English steamers
are on Lake Chow-ambe
a letter came to Ujiji 3
months ago from Abdullah
25bin Salem the Muhamadan
missionary at Mtesa's
with this information - a
steamer & boat in tow -
Tanganyika water goes through
30at Uviri to Cowambe

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26th Decr 1868 marched
up from Kapeta Rr 2 ½ hou
to top of one of the ridges which
run nearly N & S - then 3
5on this flat top to a roaring
rivulet at Kibowe villages - no people
between though country is
very fine and now everything
is green and gay with various
10shades of the same colour
passed through patches of Brakens
& gingers 5 feet high - We are in a
cloud all day & now & then a
drizzle falls which does not
15shew in the gauge = sun stars
appear not - Tambala next

[27] Kibowe Rr in Kambao

ʘ 27th Remain over Sunday

20

28th Am wrong as to day of the
month & week but all of the Arabs
insist on this being Sunday
five slaves escaped last
25night - one was beaten sorely
for trying to get off by day -

March 3 hours North - cross
5 Rts - 2 of them 4 yards wide
& knee deep = going to Lofunso
30Grass covering paths now &
brakens 5 feet high - water in
blobs lies on all the grass all day
country lowly undulating w
ranges of hills on each side as far
35as the eye can reach - all