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relations with the Boers — He cannot get native teachers planted in the 

 east — Resolves to explore northwards — Extracts from Journal — Scarcity 

 of water — Wild animals and other risks — Custom-house robberies and 

 annoyances — Visit from Secretary of London Missionary Society — Mani- 

 fold employments of Livingstone — Studies in Sichuana — His reflection on 

 this period of his life while detained at Manyuema in 1870, . . .84 



CHAPTER VI. 



kolobeng continued — lake 'ngami. 



a.d. 1849-1852. 



Kolobeng failing through drought — Sebituane's country and the Lake 

 'Ngami — Livingstone sets out with Messrs. Oswell and Murray — Rivers 

 Zouga and Tamanak'le — Old ideas of the interior revolutionised — Enthu- 

 siasm of Livingstone — Discovers Lake 'Ngami — Obliged to return — Prize 

 from Royal Geographical Society — Second expedition to the lake, with 

 wife and children — Children attacked by fever — Again obliged to return 

 — Conviction as to healthier spot beyond — Idea of finding passage to sea 

 either west or east — Birth and death of a child — Family visits Kuruman 

 — Third expedition, again with family — He hopes to find a new locality — 

 Perils of the journey — He reaches Sebituane — The Chief's illness and 

 death — Distress of Livingstone — Mr. Oswell and he go on to Linyanti — 

 Discovery of the Upper Zambesi — No locality found for settlement — More 

 extended journey necessary — He returns — Birth of Oswell Livingstone — 

 Crisis in Livingstone's life — His guiding principles — New plans — The 

 Makololo begin to practise slave-trade — New thoughts about commerce — 

 Letters to Directors — The Bakwains — Pros and cons of his new plan — 

 His unabated missionary zeal — He goes with his family to the Cape — His 

 literary activity, 98 



CHAPTER VII. 



FROM THE CAPE TO LINYANTI. 

 A.D. 1852-1853. 



Unfavourable feeling at Cape Town — Departure of Mrs. Livingstone and 

 children — Livingstone's detention and difficulties — Letter to his wife — to 

 Agnes — Occupations at Cape Town — The Astronomer-Royal — Livingstone 

 leaves the Cape and reaches Kuruman — Destruction of Kolobeng by the 

 Boers — Letters to his wife and Rev. J. Moore — His resolution to open up 

 Africa or perish — Arrival at Linyanti — Unhealthiness of the country — 

 Thoughts on setting out for coast — Sekeletu's kindness — Livingstone's 

 missionary activity — Death of Mpepe, and of his father — Meeting with 



