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CHAPTER VIII. 



FROM LINYANTI TO LOANDA. 



A.D. 1853-1854. 



Difficulties and hardships of journey — His travelling kit — Four books — His 

 Journal — Mode of travelling — Beauty of country — Repulsiveness of the 

 people — Their religious belief — The negro — Preaching— The magic lantern — 

 Loneliness of feehng — Slave-trade — Management of the natives — Danger 

 from Chiboque — from another chief — Livingstone ill of fever — At the Quango 

 — Attachment of followers — "The good time coming" — Portuguese settle- 

 ments — Great kindness of the Portuguese — Arrives at Loanda — Received by 

 Mr. Gabriel — His great friendship — No letters — News through Mr. Gabriel — 

 Livingstone becomes acquainted with naval officers — Resolves to go back to 

 Linyanti and make for East Coast — Letter to his wife — Correspondence with 

 Mr. Maclear — Accuracy of his observations — Sir John Herschel — Geographi- 

 cal Society award their gold medal — Remarks of Lord Ellesmere. 



The journey from Linyanti to Loanda occupied from the 

 11th November 1853 to 31st May 1854. It was in many 

 ways the most difficult and dangerous that Livingstone 

 had yet performed, and it drew out in a very wonderful 

 manner the rare combination of qualities that fitted him 

 for his work. The route had never been traversed, so far 

 as any trustworthy tradition went, by any European. 

 With the exception of a few of Sekeletu's tusks, the oxen 

 needed for carrying, and a trifling amount of coffee, cloth, 

 beads, etc., Livingstone had neither stores of food for his 

 party, nor presents with which to propitiate the countless 

 tribes of rapacious and suspicious savages that lined his 

 path. The Barotse men who accompanied him, usually 

 called the " Makololo," though on the whole faithful and 

 patient, "the best that ever accompanied me," were a 



