170 DAVID LIVINGSTONE. [chap. ix. 



CHAPTER IX. 



FROM LOANDA TO QUILIMANE. 



A.D. 1854-1856. 



Livingstone sets out from Loanda — Journey back — Effects of slavery — Letter to 

 his wife — Severe attack of fever — He reaches the Barotse country — Day of 

 thanksgiving — His efforts for the good of his men —Anxieties of the Moffats 

 —Mr. Moffat's journey to Mosilikatse — Box at Linyanti — Letter from Mrs. 

 Moffat— Letters to Mrs. Livingstone, Mr. Moffat, and Mrs. Moffat — Kind- 

 ness of Sekeletu — New escort — He sets out for the East Coast — Discovers 

 the Victoria Falls — The healthy longitudinal ridges — Pedestrianism — Great 

 dangers — Narrow escapes — Triumph of the spirit of trust in God — Favourite 

 texts — Reference to Captain Maclure's experience — Chief subjects of thought 

 — Structure of the continent — Sir Roderick Murchison anticipates his dis- 

 covery — Letters to Geographical Society — First letter from Sir Roderick 

 Murchison — Missionary labour — Monasteries — Protestant mission-stations 

 wanting in self-support — Letter to Directors — Fever not so serious an ob- 

 struction as it seemed — His own hardships — Theories of mission-work — 

 Expansion v. Concentration — Views of a missionary statesman— He reaches 

 Tette — Letter to King of Portugal — To Sir Roderick Murchison — Reaches 

 Senna — Quilimane — Retrospect — Letter from Directors — Goes to Mauritius 

 — Voyage home — Narrow escape from shipwreck in Bay of Tunis —He reaches 

 England, Dec. 1856 — News of his father's death. 



Dr. Livingstone left St. Paul de Loanda on 24th 

 September 1854, arrived at his old quarters at Linyanti 

 on 11th September 1855, set out eastwards on 3d 

 November 1855, and reached Quilimane on the eastern 

 coast on 20th May 1856. The journey thus occupied a 

 year and eight months, and the whole time from his 

 leaving the Cape on 8th June 1852 was within a few days 

 of four years. The return journey from Loanda to 

 Linyanti took longer than the journey outwards. This 

 arose from detention of various kinds : * the sicknesses of 



1 Dr. Livingstone observed that traders generally travelled ten days in the 

 month, and rested twenty, making seven geographical miles a day, or seventy per 

 month. In his case in this journej' the proportion was generally reversed — twenty 



