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recommended, in subsequent letters home, as a field for missionary en- 

 terprise. In the same letters he referred to the organization of a 

 mission, which, he suggested, should consist of a missionary bishop as 

 leader, a staff of clergymen, and a small band of laborers and skilled 

 artisans to instruct the natives in industrial work. This advice was 

 acted upon. The then Bishop of Oxford, Dr. Wilberforce suitably 

 to the prestige of that honored name took an active part in establish- 

 ing what was afterward known as the " Universities' Mission to Cen- 

 tral Africa." The Rev. C. F. Mackenzie, Archdeacon of Pieter-Maritz- 

 burg, in Natal, was chosen as bishop ; and, 17,000 having been sub- 

 scribed, of which a large portion was contributed by the manufactur- 

 ing towns, the mission left England on October 6, 1860. After Bishop 

 Mackenzie's consecration at Capetown, on January 1, 1861, he set sail 

 with his companions for the Kongone mouth of the Zambesi, in two 

 parties, on board H. M. ships Sidon and Lyra. The Ma-Robert had 

 proved too weak for her work, and, besides carrying the missionaries, 

 the Sidon had the task of taking out the Pioneer in convoy, a new and 

 larger steamer granted to Livingstone by Government. Arriving off 

 the Kongone early in February, they found the doctor with his party 

 waiting for them, having just returned from the Makololo Country, 

 where he had gone to take home the men he had been obliged to leave 

 at Tette, in 1856. 



Dr. Livingstone threw himself into the plans of the missionaries, 

 and, without absolutely identifying himself with their work, gave it 

 his hearty support and cooperation. The Pioneer was offered for their 

 passage up the rivers Zambesi and Shire ; and the proposal that he 

 should himself accompany them to the place where they were to settle, 

 near Lake Shirwah, was accepted with even greater satisfaction. This 

 good office accomplished, he proceeded with his own work of exploring 

 the southern end of Lake Nyassa (lat. 14 25' S., long. 35 30' E.), dis- 

 covered, like Lake Shirwah, a few miles S. S. E. of it, in 1859. 



Parenthetically: a figure of medium height, the tough, wiry frame 

 denoting great powers of endurance, the left arm slightly shortened, 

 recalling the perilous encounter with the lion ; firm-set features, weath- 

 er-beaten and browned, though not roughened, by exposure, passive 

 and thoughtful rather than demonstrative; the eyes' keen glance, and 

 a rapidly-changing expression, betraying furtive enthusiasm; a low 

 voice, winning address, manners quiet, frank, and unaffected, even re- 

 served ; such was David Livingstone as he is remembered in his favor- 

 ite dress of rough blue naval cloth, the jacket short, and the low cap, 

 of the same material, surrounded by a broad silver band. Nor is it 

 easy to forget the kindliness of disposition, and the readiness to give 

 sympathy wherever there was zeal, though hesitation or a self-sparing 

 timidity was derided as much as it was despised. Full of courage and 

 self-reliant, he expects to find something of a like spirit in others ; and 

 he gives them credit for it, never assuming backwardness or incapacity, 



