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this visit to Britain was the degree of D.C.L. from the 

 University of Oxford. Some time before, Glasgow had 

 given him the honorary degree of LL.D. In the be- 

 gining of 1858, when he was proposed as a Fellow of the 

 Royal Society, the certificate on his behalf was signed, 

 among others, by the Earl of Carlisle, then Lord-Lieu- 

 tenant of Ireland, who after his signature added P.R. 

 {pro Regina), a thing that had never been done before. 1 



The life he was now leading was rather trying. He 

 writes to his friend Mr. Maclear on the 10th November : — 



" I finish my public spouting next week at Oxford. It is really 

 very time-killing this lionising, and I am sure you pity me in it. I 

 hope to leave in January. Wonder if the Portuguese have fulfilled 

 the intention of their Government in supporting my men. ... I shall 

 rejoice when I see you again in the quiet of the Observatory. It is 

 more satisfactory to serve God in peace. May He give His grace and 

 blessing to us all ! I am rather anxious to say something that will 

 benefit the young men at Oxford. They made me a D.C.L. There ! ! 

 Wonder if they would do so to the Editor of the Grahamstown 

 Journal ?" 



Livingstone was not yet done with " public spouting," 

 even after his trip to Oxford. Among the visits paid by 

 him towards the end of 1857, none was more interesting 

 or led to more important results than that to Cambridge. 

 It was on 3d December he arrived there, becoming the 

 guest of the Rev. Wm. Monk of St. John's. Next morn- 

 ing in the senate-house, he addressed a very large audience, 

 consisting of graduates and undergraduates and many 

 visitors from the town and neighbourhood. The Yice- 

 Chancellor presided, and introduced the stranger. Dr. 

 Livingstone's lecture consisted of facts relating to the 

 country and its people, their habits and religious belief, 

 with some notices of his travels, and an emphatic state- 

 ment of his great object — to promote commerce and Chris- 

 tianity in the country which he had opened. The last 

 part of his lecture was an earnest appeal for missionaries. 



1 For list of Dr. Livingstone's honours, see Appendix No. V. , p. 4S7. 



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