ABSTRACT
The information came in a letter from Jacob Wainwright, one of Livingstone's servants, who was carrying his master's body to Tabora. Murphy and Dillon decided to leave the expedition; Dillon would a few days later shoot and kill himself while suffering from fever. Cameron proceeded to Ujiji, arriving there in February 1874. Cameron arrived back in England in April 1876 to considerable acclaim. He was promoted to commander in July 1876, was made a CB, and was awarded the gold medal of the Royal Geographical Society. The second extract asks why the commercial potential of the region is not being exploited by the British. It represents commerce as the means of extinguishing the slave trade. Many otherwise tedious hours were occupied in writing, drawing, taking lunars and working them out, and in copying itineraries and meteorological observations for the author's journals.
