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" I like to hear that some abuse me now, and say that I am no 

 Christian. Many good things were said of me which I did not deserve, 

 and I feared to read them. I shall read every word I can on the 

 other side, and that will prove a sedative to what I was forced to hear 

 of an opposite tendency. I pray that He who has lifted me up and 

 guided me thus far, will not desert me now, but make me useful in 

 my day and generation. ' I will never leave thee nor forsake thee.' 

 So let it be. 



" I saw poor Helmore's grave lately. Had my book been searched 

 for excellencies, they might have seen a certain cure for African fever. 

 We were curing it at a lower and worse part of the river at the very 

 time that they were helplessly perishing, and so quickly, that more 

 than a day was never lost after the operation of the remedy, though 

 we were marching on foot. Our tramp was over 600 miles. We 

 dropped down stream again in canoes from Sinamanero to Chicova — 

 thence to this on shank's nag. We go down to the sea immediately, 

 to meet our new steamer. Our punt was a sham and a snare. 



" My love to Mary and all the children, with all our friends at 

 Congleton." 



In a letter to Mr. James Young, Dr. Livingstone 

 gives good reasons for not wishing to push the colonisa- 

 tion scheme at present, as he had recommended to the 

 Universities Mission to add a similar enterprise to their 

 undertaking : — ■ 



" If you read all I have written you by this mail, you will deserve 

 to be called a literary character. I find that I did not touch on the 

 colonisation scheme. I have not changed in respect to it, but the 

 Oxford and Cambridge mission have taken the matter up, and as I 

 shall do all I can to aid them, a little delay will, perhaps, be advis- 

 able. 



" We are waiting for our steamer, and expect her every day ; our 

 first trip is a secret, and you will keep it so. We go to the Eovuma, 

 a river exterior to the Portuguese claims, as soon as the vessel arrives. 

 Captain Oldfield of the ' Lyra ' is sent already, to explore, as far as he 

 can, in that ship. The entrance is fine, and forty-five miles are known, 

 but we keep our movements secret from the Portuguese — and so must 

 you ; they seize everything they see in the newspapers. Who are my 



imprudent friends that publish everything 1 I suspect Mr. of ■ , 



but no one gives me a name or a clue. Some expected me to feel 

 sweet at being jewed by a false philanthropist, and bamboozled by a 

 silly K. N. I did not, and could not, seem so ; but I shall be more 

 careful in future. 



" Again back to the colony. It is not to sleep, but preparation 

 must be made by collecting information, and maturing our plans. I 



