nearly severed his head from his body.  The Johanna men fled into the thick jungle, and miraculously escaped.  Returning to the scene of the tragedy, they found the body of their master, and in a shallow grave dug with some stakes, they committed his remains to the ground, Many details were given regarding the Sepoys, and regarding the after fortunes of Musa and his companions.  Under cross-examination Musa stood firmly to his story, which was believed both by Dr. Seward and Dr. Kirk, of Zanzibar.  But when the tidings reached England, doubt was thrown on them by some of those best qualified to judge.  Mr. Edward D. Young, who had had dealings with Musa, and knew him to be a liar, was suspicious of the story; so was Mr. Horace Waller.  Sir Roderick Murchison, too, proclaimed himself an unbeliever, notwithstanding all the circumstantiality and apparent conclusiveness of the tale.  The country was resounding with lamentations, the newspapers were full of obituary notices, but the strong-minded disbelievers were not to be moved.

Sir Roderick and his friends of the Geographical Society determined to organize a search expedition, and Mr. E. D. Young was requested to undertake the task.  In May, 1867, all was ready for the departure of the Expedition; and on the 25th July, Mr. E. D. Young, who was accompanied by Mr. Faulkner, John Reid, and Patrick Buckley, cast anchor at the mouth of the Zambesi.  A steel boat named “The Search,” and some smaller boats, were speedily launched, and the party were moving up the river.  We have no space for an account of Mr. Young’s most interesting journey, not even for the detail of that wonderful achievement, the carrying of the pieces of the “Search” past the Murchison Cataracts, and their reconstruction at the top, without a single piece missing.  The sum and substance of Mr. Young’s story was, that first, quite unexpectedly, he came upon a man near the south end of Lake Nyassa, who had seen Livingstone there, and who described him well, showing that he had not crossed at the north end, as Musa had said, but, for some reason, had come round by the south; then, the chief Marenga not only told him of Livingstone’s stay there, but also of the return of Musa, after leaving him, without any story of his murder; also, at Mapunda, they came on traces of the boy Wikatani, and learned his story, though they did not see himself.  The most ample proof of the falsehood of Musa’s story was thus obtained, and by the end of 1867, Mr. Young, after a most active, gallant, and successful campaign, was approaching the shores of England[68].  No enterprise could have brought more satisfactory results, and all in the incredibly short period of eight months.

[Footnote 68:  See The Search for Livingstone, by E.D.  Young:  London, 1868.]