DEDICATION. 



TO 



SIR RODERICK IMPEY MURCHISON, 



PRE8IDENT ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY, F.R.S., V.P.G.8., CORK. INST. OF FRANCE, AND 



MEMBER OF TUB ACADEMIES OF ST. PETERSBURG, BERLIN, STOCKHOLM, 



COPENHAGEN, BRUSSELS, ETC., 



(&t)t0 itlork 



is affectionately offered as a Token of Gratitude for the kind interest he 

 has always taken in the Author's pursuits and welfare; and to express 

 admiration of his eminent scientific attainments, nowhere more strongly 

 evidenced than by the striking hypothesis respecting the physical con- 

 formation of the African continent, promulgated in his Presidential Ad- 

 dress to the Royal Geographical Society in 1852, and verified three 

 years afterward by the Author of these Travels. 



DAVID LIVINGSTONE. 



London, Oct., 1857. 



