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Palmerston and Clarendon — The Portuguese Ambassador — Livingstone 

 proposes to go to Portugal — Is dissuaded — Lord Clarendon's letter to 

 Sekeletu — Results of Livingstone's visit to England — Farewell banquet, 

 February 1858 — Interview with the Queen — Valedictory letters — Professor 

 Sedgwick and Sir Roderick Murchison — Arrangements for expedition — 

 Dr., Mrs., and Oswald Livingstone set sail from Liverpool — Letters to 

 children, 217 



CHAPTER XII. 



THE ZAMBESI, AND FIRST EXPLORATIONS OF THE SHIRE. 



a.d. 858-18 59. 



Dr. and Mrs. Livingstone sail in the " Pearl " — Characteristic instructions to 

 members of Expedition — Dr. Livingstone conscious of difficult position — 

 Letter to Robert — Sierra Leone — Effects of British Squadron and of 

 Christian Missions — Dr. and Mrs. Moffat at Cape Town — Splendid recep- 

 tion there — Illness of Mrs. Livingstone — She remains behind — The five 

 years of the Expedition — Letter to Mr. James Young — to Dr. Moffat' — 

 Kongone entrance to Zambesi — Collision with Naval Officer — Disturbed 

 state of the country — Trip to Kebrabasa Rapids — Dr. Livingstone applies 

 for new steamer — Willing to pay for one himself — Exploration of the 

 Shire — Murchison Cataracts — Extracts from private Journal — Discovery 

 of Lake Shirwa— Correspondence — Letter to Agnes Livingstone — Trip to 

 Tette — Kroomen and two members of Expedition dismissed — Livingstone's 

 vindication — Discovery of Lake Nyassa — Bright hopes for the future — 

 Idea of a colony — Generosity of Livingstone — Letters to Mr. Maclear, 

 Mr. Young, and Sir Roderick Murchison — His sympathy with the 

 " honest poor " — He hears of the birth of his youngest daughter, . . 241 



CHAPTER XIII. 



GOING HOME WITH THE MAKOLOLO. 

 A.D. 1860. 



Down to Kongone — State of the ship — Further delay — Letter to Secretary 

 of Universities Mission — Letter to Mr. Braithwaite — At Tette — Miss 

 Whately's sugar-mill — With his brother and Kirk at Kebrabasa — Mode of 

 travelling — Reappearance of old friends — African warfare and its effects 

 — Desolation — A European colony desirable — Escape from rhinoceros — 

 Rumours of Moffat — The Portuguese local Governors oppose Livingstone 

 — He becomes unpopular with them — Letter to Mr. Young — Wants of the 



