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frequent occurrence. The explanation is, that Living- 

 stone put down everything as it came, reserving the 

 arranging and digesting of the whole to a future time. 

 The extremely hurried manner in which he was obliged 

 to write his Missionary Travels prevented him from ful- 

 filling all his plan, and compelled him to content himself 

 with giving to the public then what could be put most 

 readily together. There are indications that he contem- 

 plated in the end a much more thorough use of his 

 materials. It is not to be supposed that his published 

 volumes contained all that he deemed worthy of publica- 

 tion, or that a censure is due to those who reproduce 

 some portions which he passed over. As to the neat and 

 finished form in which the Journal exists, it was one of 

 the many fruits of a strong habit of orderliness and self- 

 respect which he had begun to learn at the hand of his 

 mother, and which he practised all his life. Even in the 

 matter of personal cleanliness and dress he was uniformly 

 most attentive in his wanderings among savages. " I 

 feel certain," he said, " that the lessons of cleanliness 

 rigidly instilled by my mother in childhood helped to 

 maintain that respect which these people entertain for 

 European ways." 



The course of the journey was first along the river 

 Zambesi, as he had gone before with Sekeletu, to its 

 junction with the Leeba, then along the Leeba to the 

 country of Lobale on the left and Londa on the right. 

 Then, leaving the canoes, he travelled on oxback first 

 n.n.w. and then w. till he reached St. Paul de Loanda 

 on the coast. His Journal, like the published volume, is 

 full of observations on the beauty and wonderful capacity 

 and productiveness of the country through which he 

 passed after leaving the river. Instinctively he would 

 compare it with Scotland. A beautiful valley reminds 

 him of his native vale of Clyde, seen from the spot 

 where Mary Queen of Scots saw the battle of Langside ; 



