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the stream, compressed within the limits of a few yards, rushes down 

 with tremendous force between high perpendicular banks of solid 

 rock. But, from the Victoria Falls to the central Luabo mouth-branch, 

 there is nothing else in the shape of hindrance except shoals, and these 

 are only troublesome at the dry season of the year. 



Tette, in native momenclature Nungwd, the farthest Portuguese 

 settlement westward, was reached safely on March 3d. The command- 

 ant, Major Sicard, received the travellers kindly, and, on hearing the 

 account of the coal discovered at Chicova, mentioned the fact of the 

 existence of five other seams lower down. They were found on the 

 banks of a small river, Lofubu, the visible width of the largest seam, 

 according to Livingstone's measurement, being 58 inches. The whole 

 of the district two miles below Tette proved to be carboniferous; and, 

 if rumor counts for any thing, it extends into the Maravi country far to 

 the north in the region of the lakes. 



But the protracted journey is drawing to a close. Passing the 

 Lupata gorge, Senna was reached April 27th. Morambala and the Shire 

 mouth, May 11th. Thirty miles below, Shupanga. It was here Mrs. 

 Livingstone died of virulent fever, six years after she had joined her 

 husband from England, on April 22, 1862. She lies buried under a 

 fine baobab-tree, close to a modern Portuguese house, and a simple 

 white monument marks her grave. From Mazaro, at the head of the 

 Delta, down the Mutu River to Quelimane, and so the east coast is 

 touched at last, May 26, 1856. A few weeks after, II. M. S. Frolic 

 anchored off Quelimane, and, giving him a passage to Mauritius, the 

 traveller embarked in a steamship of the Peninsular and Oriental Com- 

 pany, and on December 12th, landed in England. 



Livingstone was the observed of all observers after his return. 

 The feeling regarding him amounted to enthusiasm: and the eagerness 

 with which his book was read, published in 1857, proved the interest 

 that was taken in all he had done. A high estimate was formed of his 

 abilities; but a still higher one, perhaps, of the qualities he had dis- 

 played, the energy, the perseverance, the tenacity of purpose, com- 

 bined with powers of endurance and a courage and activity that cer- 

 tainly revealed a man of no ordinary calibre. Nor was the integrity 

 of his personal character forgotten. On what just grounds this opinion 

 rested, is proved by the fact that after a lapse of more than fifteen 

 years, in spiie of severe criticisms, and not a few hard words, his rep- 

 utation stands as high as ever. And what had he done? He had 

 overthrown the belief which previously existed, " that a large part of 

 the interior of Africa consisted of sandy deserts into which rivers ran 

 and were lost." He had filled up considerable portions of the map of 

 Central Africa, lying between the 15th and 28th parallels of S. latitude. 

 A splendid river was found crossing nearly two-thirds of the continent, 

 and he had accomplished the work of tracing it down to its outlet 

 with the hope of its becoming a path for the missionary and the mer- 



