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that Her Majesty's Government would unite with that of 

 Portugal in giving Dr. Livingstone facilities for further 

 exploration in the interior of Africa, and especially in the 

 district around the river Zambesi and its tributaries, 

 which promised to be the most suitable as a basis both 

 for commercial and missionary settlements. 



In the course of the same month his foot was again on 

 his native soil, and there his reception was remarkably 

 cordial. In Glasgow, the University, the Corporation, 

 the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons, the United 

 Presbyterians, and the Associated Operative Cotton- 

 spinners of Scotland came forward to pay him honour. 

 A testimonial of £2000 had been raised by public sub- 

 scription. The Corporation presented him with the 

 freedom of the city in a gold box, in acknowledging 

 which he naturally dwelt on some of the topics that were 

 interesting to a commercial community. He gave a 

 somewhat new view of " Protection " when he called 

 it a remnant of heathenism. The heathen would be 

 dependent on no one ; they would depress all other 

 communities. Christianity taught us to be friends and 

 brothers, and he was glad that all restrictions on the 

 freedom of trade were now done away with. He dwelt 

 largely on the capacity of Africa to furnish us with 

 useful articles of trade, and especially cotton. 



His reception by the Faculty of Physicians and 

 Surgeons had a special interest in relation to his medical 

 labours. For nearly twenty years he had been a licentiate 

 of this Faculty, one of the oldest medical institutions of 

 the country, which for two centuries and a half had 

 exerted a great influence in the west of Scotland. He 

 was now admitted an honorary Fellow — an honour rarely 

 conferred, and only on pre-eminently distinguished men. 

 The President referred to the benefit which he had found 

 from his scientific as well as his more strictly medical 

 studies, pursued under their auspices, and Livingstone 



