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wide diffusion of Christianity at some future time, are 

 worth all the money and labor that have been expended 

 to produce them. 



CHAPTER X1I1. 



DR. LIVINGSTONE SETS OUT ON THE EXPEDITION TO THE 

 WEST COAST. 



Lintanti, September, 1853. — The object proposed to the 

 Makololo seemed so desirable that it was resolved to proceed 

 with it as soon as the cooling influence of the rains should 

 be felt in November. The longitude and latitude of Lin- 

 yanti (lat. 18° 17' 20" S., long. 23° 50' 9" B.) showed that 

 St. Philip de Benguela was much nearer to us than 

 Loanda; and I might have easily made arrangements 

 with the Mambari to allow me to accompany them as far 

 as Bike, which is on the road to that port ; but it is so 

 undesirable to travel in a path once trodden by slave- 

 traders that I preferred to find out another line of march. 



Accordingly, men were sent at my suggestion to examine 

 all the country to the west, to see if any belt of country 

 free from tsetse could be found to afford us an outlet. The 

 search was fruitless. The town and district of Linyanti 

 are surrounded by forests infested by this poisonous insect, 

 except at a few j>oints, as that by which we entered at 

 Sanshureh and another at Sesheke. But the lands both 

 east and west of the Barotse valley are free from this 

 insect-plague. There, however, the slave-trade had defiled 

 the path, and no one ought to follow in its wake unless 

 well armed. The Mambari had informed me that many 

 English lived at Loanda; so I prepared to go thither. The 

 prospect of meeting with countrymen seemed to over- 

 balance the toils of the longer march. 



