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of whom she never heard. It is wonderful how soon the affections 

 twine round a little stranger. We felt her loss keenly. She was 

 attacked by the prevailing sickness, which attacked many native 

 children, and bore up under it for a fortnight. We could not apply 

 remedies to one so young, except the simplest. She uttered a piercing 

 cry, previous to expiring, and then went away to see the King in His 

 beauty, and the land — the glorious land, and its inhabitants. Hers 

 is the first grave in all that country marked as the resting-place of one 

 of whom it is believed and confessed that she shall live again." 



Mrs. Livingstone had an attack of serious illness, 

 accompanied by paralysis of the right side of the face, 

 and rest being essential for her, the family went, for a 

 time, to Kuruman. Dr. Livingstone had a strong desire 

 to go to the Cape for the excision of his uvula, which 

 had long been troublesome. But, with characteristic 

 self-denial, he put his own case out of view, staying 

 with his wife, that she might have the rest and atten- 

 tion she needed. He tried to persuade his father-in-law 

 to perform the operation, and, under his direction, Dr. 

 Moffat went so far as to make a pair of scissors for the 

 purpose ; but his courage, so well tried in other fields, 

 was not equal to the performance of such a surgical 

 operation. 



Some glimpses of Livingstone's musings at this time, 

 showing, among other things, how much more he thought 

 of his spiritual than his Highland ancestry, occur in a 

 letter to his parents, written immediately after his return 

 from his second visit to the lake (28th July 1850). 

 If they should carry out their project of emigration to 

 America, they would have an interesting family gather- 

 ing :— 



" One, however, will be ' over the hills and far away ' from your 

 happy meeting. The meeting which Ave hope will take place in 

 Heaven, will be unlike a family one, in so far as earthly relationships 

 are concerned. One will be so much taken up in looking at Jesus, I 

 don't know when we shall be disposed to sit down and talk about 

 the days of lang syne. And then there will be so many notables 

 whom we should like to notice and shake hands with — Luke, for 

 instance, the beloved physician, and Jeremiah, and old Job, and Noah, 



