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credit due to one who had done so little in comparison. 

 But the noble spirit of Livingstone rose to the occasion. 

 Rather than have any scandal before the heathen, he 

 would give up his house and garden at Mabotsa, with all 

 the toil and money they had cost him, go with his young 

 bride to some other place, and begin anew the toil of 

 house and school building, and gathering the people 

 around him. His colleague was so struck with his 

 generosity that he said had he known his intention he 

 never would have spoken a word against him. Living- 

 stone had spent all his money, and out of a salary 

 of a hundred pounds it was not easy to build a house 

 every other year. But he stuck to his resolution. 

 Parting with his garden evidently cost him a pang, 

 especially when he thought of the tasteless hands into 

 which it was to fall. "I like a garden," he wrote, "but 

 Paradise will make amends for all our privations and 

 sorrows here." Self-denial was a firmly-established habit 

 with him ; and the passion of " moving on " was warm 

 in his blood. Mabotsa did not thrive after Livingstone 

 left it, but the brother with whom he had the difference 

 lived to manifest a very different spirit. 



In some of his journeys, Livingstone had come into 

 close contact with the tribe of the Bakwains, which, on 

 the murder of their chief, some time before, had been 

 divided into two, one part under Bubi, already referred 

 to, and the other under Sechele, son of the murdered 

 chief, also already introduced. Both of these chiefs had 

 shown much regard for Livingstone, and on the death of 

 Bubi, Sechele and his people indicated a strong wish that 

 a missionary should reside among them. On leaving 

 Mabotsa, Livingstone transferred his services to this 

 tribe. The name of the new station was Chonuane ; it 

 was situated some forty miles from Mabotsa, and in 1846 

 it became the centre of Livingstone's operations among 

 the Bakwains and their chief Sechele. 



