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there men once met to utter the magnificent words, 

 •' Thou art the King of Glory, O Christ !" but without 

 leaving one permanent trace of their labours in the belief 

 and worship of the people. 



Wherever they go, Dr. Livingstone has his eye on 

 the trees and plants and fruits of the region, with a view 

 to commerce ; while he is no less interested to watch the 

 treatment of fever, when cases occur, and greatly gratified 

 that Dr. Kirk, who had been trying a variety of medicines 

 on himself, made rapid recovery when he took Dr. Living- 

 stone's pills. He used to say if he had followed Morison, 

 and set up as pill-maker, he might have made his fortune. 

 Passing through the Bazizulu he had an escape from a 

 rhinoceros, as remarkable though not quite as romantic 

 as his escape from the Hon ; the animal came dashing at 

 him, and suddenly, for some unknown reason, stopped 

 when close to him, and gave him time to escape, as if it 

 had been struck by his colour, and doubtful if hunting 

 a white man would be good sport. 



At a month's distance from Mosilikatse, they heard a 

 report that the missionaries had been there, that they 

 had told the chief that it was wrong to kill men, and 

 that the chief had said he was born to kill people, but 

 would drop the practice — an interesting testimony to the 

 power of Mr. Moffat's words. Everywhere the Makololo 

 proclaimed that they were the friends of peace, and their 

 course was like a triumphal procession, the people of the 

 villages loading them with presents. 



But a new revelation came to Dr. Livingstone. 

 Though the Portuguese Government had given public 

 orders that he was to be aided in every possible way, 

 it was evident that private instructions had come, which, 

 unintentionally perhaps, certainly produced the opposite 

 effects. The Portuguese who were engaged in the slave- 

 trade were far too much devoted to it ever to encourage 

 an enterprise that aimed at extirpating it. Indeed, it 



