196 DAVID LIVINGSTONE. [chap. ix. 



" If it is according to the will of God, means will be provided from 

 other quarters." 



A long letter to the Secretary gives a fuller statement 

 of his views. It is so important as throwing light on his 

 missionary consistency, that we give it in full in the 

 Appendix. 1 



The Directors showed a much more sympathetic spirit 

 when Livingstone came among them, but meanwhile, as 

 he tells us in his book, his old feeling of independence 

 had returned, and it did not seem probable that he would 

 remain in the same relation to the Society. 



After Livingstone had been six weeks at Quilimane, 

 H.M. brig "Frolic" arrived, with ample supplies for all 

 his need, and took him to the Mauritius, where he arrived 

 on 12th August 1856. It was during this voyage that 

 the lamentable insanity and suicide of his native attendant 

 Sekwebu occurred, of which we have an account in the 

 Missionary Travels. At the Mauritius he was the guest 

 of General Hay, from whom he received the greatest 

 kindness, and so rapid was his recovery from an 

 affection of the spleen which his numerous fevers had 

 bequeathed, that before he left the island he wrote to 

 Commodore Trotter and other friends that he was perfectly 

 well, and " quite ready to go back to Africa again." This 

 however was not to be just yet. In November he sailed 

 through the Red Sea, on the homeward route. He had 

 expected to land at Southampton, and there Mrs. Living- 

 stone and other friends had gone to welcome him. But 

 the perils of travel were not yet oyer. A serious accident 

 befell the ship, which might have been followed by fatal 

 results but for that good Providence that held the life of 

 Livingstone so carefully. Writing to Mrs. Livingstone 

 from the Bay of Tunis (27th November 1856), he says : — 



" We had very rough weather after leaving Malta, and yesterday at 

 midday the shaft of the engine — an enormous mass of malleable iron — 



1 Appendix No. III., p. 481. 



