The Awakening of the Central African 



gelists, and ministers for the native church. The 

 ceremony was performed by Mrs. A. L. Bruce, 

 Dr. Livingstone's daughter, "who was welcomed," 

 Dr. Hetherwick reports, *'by the descendants of 

 his own 'faithful Makololo,' whom he left behind 

 him to hold the country for the English, who, he 

 said, 'would come back' ; by the sons of the Yao 

 headmen who fought him as the enemy of their 

 slave trade; and not least, by two old men whom 

 her father had released from slavery not very far 

 from where Blantyre now stands." 



When Livingstone discovered Lake Nyasa in 

 1859 he at once realized what a splendid base it 

 would make for missionary enterprise. He recom- 

 mended the Free Church of Scotland to undertake 

 a mission to this region; but it was not until after 

 his death that the pioneer party actually started. 

 Eight carefully chosen men were put under the 

 command of Mr. E. D. Young, a lieutenant of 

 the Royal Navy, who had had some experience of 

 African travel, and had been on the Zambesi in 

 1862 when Livingstone was there. 



They set out on the 21st May 1875, and took 

 with them a small steamer named the Ilala, 

 especially built for the lake, also two boats for use 

 on the river. After a perilous voyage they landed 

 at the Kongoni mouth of the Zambesi. Here the 

 Ilala was put together and was launched on the 

 2nd August. Not having been built for a shallow 

 river, the steamer stuck on sandbanks. At this 



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