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husbands, and was very uncomfortable when married 

 women complained of her taking their spouses from them. 

 Her soul recoiled from the business ; she wished to have 

 a husband of her own and to be like other women. 



So anxious was Livingstone to find a healthy locality, 

 that, leaving Sekeletu, he proceeded to the farthest limit of 

 the Barotse country, but no healthy place could be found. 

 It is plain, however, that in spite of all risk, and much as 

 he suffered from the fever, he was planning, if no better 

 place could be found, to return himself to Linyanti and be 

 the Makololo missionary. Not just immediately, however. 

 Having failed in the first object of his journey — to find a 

 healthy locality — he was resolved to follow out the second, 

 and endeavour to discover a highway to the sea. Fust 

 he would try the west coast, and the point for which he 

 would make was St. Paul de Loanda. He might have 

 found a nearer way, but a Portuguese trader whom he 

 had met, and from whom he had received kindness, was 

 going by that route to St. Philip de Benguela. The 

 trader was implicated in the slave-trade, and Livingstone 

 knew what a disadvantage it would be either to accompany 

 or to follow him. He therefore returned to Linyanti ; 

 and there began preparations for the journey to Loanda 

 on the coast. 



During the time thus spent in the Barotse country, 

 Livingstone saw heathenism in its most unadulterated 

 form. It was a painful, loathsome, and horrible spectacle. 

 His views of the Fall and of the corruption of human 

 nature were certainly not lightened by the sight. In his 

 Journal he is constantly letting fall expressions of weari- 

 ness at the noise, the excitement, the wild savage dancing, 

 the heartless cruelty, the utter disregard of feelings, the 

 destruction of children, the drudgery of the old people, 

 the atrocious murders with which he was in contact. 

 Occasionally he would think of other scenes of travel ; if 

 a friend, for example, were going to Palestine, he would 



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