The _Lady Alice_ afloat again—Her mate and crew—Anxiety on 14 her behalf—-On hallowed ground—Unwelcome visitors: in the haunts of the Ruga-Ruga—The aborigines’ last retreat—A scene of blood—The robbers of the Lake, and their tutelary spirits—A geological problem: were there once two lakes?—Rising waters—The abode of the genii—A storm—Forest fires—At the mouth of Cameron’s “outlet”—The Lukuga creek CHAPTER III. Back in camp—An epidemic of small-pox—Panic of 48 desertion—Kalulu’s disloyalty—Livingstone’s lenience—Imaginary terrors—Hairdressing _ad absurdum_—Ruanga’s opinion of white men—A village sketch—The villagers of Uhombo—_In puris naturalibus_—A touch of human nature—On Livingstone’s traces—What is there in feathers?—The Manyema: their life and manners—Our ass astonishes the natives—Bloodless wars—Nicknames—A tribe with beards but no wives—The confluence of the Luama and the Livingstone CHAPTER IV. At a swinging pace—Tippu-Tib, the Arab trader—News of 73 Cameron and his difficulties—The river that flows North for ever—In Dwarf-land, fighting the dwarfs—Tippu Tib’s conditions—Friends in council—Heads or tails—Kalulu’s accident at Nyangwé—Its residents and market—A muster of the Expedition CHAPTER V. Tippu-Tib’s henchmen—In the primeval forest, a wilderness of 98 trees—Primitive furniture—Our sufferings in the pagans’ forest—Tippu-Tib breaks down—A village blacksmith—Soko skulls; the missing link—Professor Huxley’s opinion thereof—THE LIVINGSTONE—A day dream—The road to the ocean—Timid counsels—“The Wasambye!”—“Ooh-hu! ooh- hu!”—Successful diplomacy CHAPTER VI. “Mama, the Wasambye!”—The fight in the Ruiki—The lost 122 found—Dangerous disobedience—In the nick of time—A savage captive—Music hath charms—In the haunts of Nature—A town of one street—Deserted villages—Organizing a hospital—An island wasted by lightning—“The people of the filed teeth”—Primitive salt-making—Hostages captured—At close quarters—Raining arrows—“Bo-bo, bo-bo, bo-bo-o-o-oh!”—A desperate affair and opportune reinforcements—Cutting the canoes adrift—Tippu-Tib deserts me—My appeal to the “sea children”—Christmas Day among the cannibals—“Victory or death!” CHAPTER VII. Farewell to Tippu-Tib—Attacked from both banks—The fat 153 savage makes a bad shot at me—In the home of the elephants—Insect life—In covert—The Lowwa river—A storm on the river—New Year’s day—Bullets against spears—“Sennenneh!”—Tempting the female mind—The reward of a good deed—A river armada: crocodile boats—Betwixt cataracts and cannibals CHAPTER VIII.