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but small. But as he gets better acquainted with Africa, 

 and reaches a more commanding point of view, he sees 

 the necessity for other work. The continent must be 

 surveyed, healthy localities for mission stations must be 

 found, the temptations to a cursed traffic in human flesh 

 must be removed, the products of the country must be 

 turned to account ; its whole social economy must be 

 changed. The accomplishment of such objects, even in 

 a limited degree, would be an immense service to the 

 missionary ; it would be such a preparing of his way that 

 a hundred years hence the spiritual results would be far 

 greater than if all the effort now were concentrated on 

 single souls. To many persons it appeared as if dealing 

 with individual souls were the only proper work of a 

 missionary, and as if one who had been doing such work 

 would be lowering himself if he accepted any other. 

 Livingstone never stopped to reason as to which was the 

 higher or the more desirable work ; he felt that Provi- 

 dence was calling him to be less of a missionary journey- 

 man and more of a missionary statesman ; but the great 

 end was ever the same — 



" THE END OF THE GEOGRAPHICAL PEAT IS ONLY 

 THE BEGINNING OE THE ENTERPRISE." 



Livingstone reached the Portuguese settlement of 

 Tette on the 3d March 1856, and the "civilised break- 

 fast" which the commandant, Major Sicard, sent for- 

 ward to him, on his way, was a luxury like Mr. Gabriel's 

 bed at Loanda, and made him walk the last eight miles 

 without the least sensation of fatigue, although the road 

 was so rough that, as a Portuguese soldier remarked, it 

 was like " to tear a man's life out of him." At Loanda 

 he had heard of the battle of the Alma ; after being in 

 Tette a short time he heard of the fall of Sebastopol and 

 the end of the Crimean War. He remained in Tette till 

 the 23d April, detained by an attack of fever, receiving 

 extraordinary kindness from the Governor, and, among 



