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trolled greed would lead them to trade in slaves. In his anxiety to 

 suppress this growing traffic, he sought an outlet for such raw material 

 as the natives could be induced to gather. His search for some great 

 natural highway to the ocean led him, after years of strenuous en- 

 deavor, first to Loanda on the w^est coast, and then from there to 

 Ouilimane on the shores of the Indian Ocean and won him world-wide 

 fame as a traveler. 



Yet all the while he hungered for the soul of the African. He 

 became convinced — and to be convinced with Livingstone was to be 

 enthusiastic as well — that the evangelizing of Africa was not to be 

 achieved in its earliest stage by building stations and settling perma- 

 nently among one people ; but rather by staying a few years with each 

 tribe, preaching the Gospel, specially instructing such as would receive 

 it, and then moving on to new tribes. 



And so it happened that, whenever and wherever he traveled, 

 he sowed the seed as he went. Far and wide he flung it ; and far and 

 wide, even to this day, his name is remembered with respect. The 

 principle which actuated him through it all is contained in those well- 

 known words of his, "The end of the geographical feat is only the 

 beginning of the missionary enterprise." 



On the 1st of June, 1849, in company with two Englishmen bent 

 on sporting adventure — Mr. Oswell and Mr. Murray — Livingstone 

 set out on his northward march. Right in his track lay the great 

 Kalahari Desert. From the Orange River in the south to Lake Ngami 

 in the north, from the Transvaal on the east to Great Namaqualand 

 on the west, this vast tract of country extends — in its southern portions 

 open and grassy, and in its northern wooded as well. It is flat and 

 sandy, and in many parts grass grows luxuriantly, and bushes and 

 trees are not uncommon. Here and there are distinctly traceable the 

 beds of ancient rivers, but no water ever flows along them now. It 

 is a region of few wells and no streams, a country of complete drought ; 

 and to the natives and Boers who dwelt east of it, the Kalahari Desert 

 conveys the idea of utter desolation. 



And yet this idea is in many respects erroneous. Large numbers 

 of Bushmen lead a nomadic life upon this sandy plain. From place to 

 place they follow the antelope — a beast which resembles the camel in 



