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were made of him to the Colonial Government as a 

 dangerous person that ought not to be let alone. 



All this made it very clear to Livingstone that his 

 favourite plan of planting native teachers to the eastward 

 could not be carried into effect, at least for the present. 

 His disappointment in this was only another link in 

 the chain of causes that gave to the latter part of his life 

 so unlooked-for but glorious a destination. It set him to 

 inquire whether in some other direction he might not 

 find a sphere for planting native teachers which the 

 jealousy of the Boers prevented in the east. 



Before we set out with him on the northward journeys, 

 to which he was led partly by the hostility of the Boers 

 in the east, and partly by the very distressing failure of 

 rain at Kolobeng, a few extracts may be given from a 

 record of the period entitled " A portion of a Journal lost 

 in the destruction of Kolobeng (September 1853) by the 

 Boers of Pretorius." Livingstone appears to have kept 

 journals from an early period of his life with characteristic 

 care and neatness ; but that ruthless and most atrocious 

 raid of the Boers, which we shall have to notice hereafter, 

 deprived him of all of them up to that date. The treat- 

 ment of his books on that occasion was one of the most 

 exasperating of his trials. Had they been burned or 

 carried off he would have minded it less ; but it was un- 

 speakably provoking to hear of them lying about with 

 handfuls of leaves torn out of them, or otherwise mutilated 

 and destroyed. From the wreck of his journals the only 

 part saved was a few pages containing notes of some 

 occurrences in 1848-49 : — 



"May 20, 1848. — Spoke to Sechele of the evil of trusting in medi- 

 cines instead of God. He felt afraid to dispute on the subject, and 

 said he would give up all medicine if I only told him to do so. I was 

 gratified to see symptoms of tender conscience. May God enlighten 

 him ! 



"July 10th. — Entered new house on 4th curt. A great mercy. 

 Hope it may be more a house of prayer than any we have yet inhabited. 



