268 DAVID LIVINGSTONE. [chap. xm. 



to show the natives what could be done by machinery. 

 Then he adverts to the wonderful freedom from sickness 

 that his party had enjoyed in the delta of the Zambesi, 

 and proceeds to give an account of the Shire valley and 

 its people. He finds ground for a favourable contrast 

 between the Shire' natives and the Tette Portuguese : — 



" They (the natives) have fences made to guard the women from 

 the alligators, all along the Shire ; at Tette they have none, and two 

 women were taken past our vessel in the mouths of these horrid brutes. 

 The number of women taken is so great as to make the Portuguese 

 swear every time they speak of them, and yet, when I proposed to the 

 priest to make a collection for a fence, and offered twenty dollars, he 

 only smiled. You Protestants don't know all the good you do by 

 keeping our friends of the only true and infallible Church up to their 

 duty. Here, and in Angola, we see how it is, when they are not pro- 

 voked — if not to love, to good works. . . . 



" On telling the Makololo that the sugar-mill had been sent to 

 Sekeletu by a lady, who collected a sum among other ladies to buy it, 

 they replied, ' na le pelu ' — she has a heart. I was very proud of it, 

 and so were they. 



"... With reference to the future, I am trying to do what I did 

 before — obey the injunction, ' Commit thy way to the Lord, trust also 

 in Him, and He shall bring it to pass.' And I hope that He will 

 make some use of me. My attention is now directed specially to the 

 fact that there is no country better adapted for producing the raw 

 materials of English manufactures than this. . . . 



" See to what a length I have run. I have become palaverist. I 

 beg you to present my respectful salutation to the Archbishop and 

 Mrs. Whately, and should you meet any of the kind contributors, say 

 how thankful I am to them all." 



From Tette he writes to Sir Roderick Murchison, 7th 

 February 1860, urging his plan for a steamer on Lake 

 Nyassa : "If Government furnishes the means, all right ; 

 if not, I shall spend my book-money on it. I don't need 

 to touch the children's fund, and mine could not be 

 better spent. People who are born rich sometimes 

 become miserable from a fear of becoming poor ; but 

 I have the advantage, you see, in not being afraid to 

 die poor. If I live, I must succeed in what I have 

 undertaken ; death alone will put a stop to my efforts." 



A month after he writes to the same friend, from 



