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CHAPTER XIII. 



GOING HOME WITH THE MAKOLOLO. 



a.d. 1860. 



Down to Kongone — State of the ship — Further delay — Letter to Secretary of 

 Universities Mission — Letter to Mr. Braithwaite — At Tette — Miss Whately's 

 sugar-mill — With his brother and Kirk at Kebrabasa — Mode of travelling — 

 Reappearance of old friends — African warfare and its effects — Desolation — A 

 European colony desirable — Escape from rhinoceros — Rumours of Moffat — 

 The Portuguese local Governors oppose Livingstone — He becomes unpopular 

 with them — Letter to Mr. Young — Wants of the country — The Makololo — 

 Approach home — Some are disappointed — News of the death of the London 

 missionaries, the Helmores and others — Letter to Dr. Moffat — The Victoria 

 Falls re-examined — Sekeletu ill of leprosy — Treatment and recovery — His 

 disappointment at not seeing Mrs. Livingstone — Efforts for the spiritual good 

 of the Makololo — Careful observations in Natural History — The last of the 

 "Ma-Robert" — Cheering prospect of the Universities Mission — Letter to 

 Mr. Moore — to Mr. Young — He wishes another ship — Letter to Sir Roderick 

 Murchison on the rumoured journey of Silva Porto. 



It was necessary to go down to Kongone for the repair 

 of the ship. Livingstone was greatly disappointed with 

 it, and thought the greed of the vendor had supplied him 

 with a very inferior article for the price of a good one. 

 He thus pours forth his vexation in writing to a friend : 

 " Very grievous it is to be standing here tinkering when 

 we might be doing good service to the cause of African 

 civilisation, and that on account of insatiable greediness. 

 Burton may thank L. and B. that we were not at the 

 other lakes before him. The loss of time greediness 

 has inflicted on us has been frightful. My plan in this 

 Expedition was excellent, but it did not include pro- 

 visions against hypocrisy and fraud, which have sorely 



