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shall be able to give definite instructions as soon as I see how the other 

 mission works — at its beginning — and when we see if the new route 

 we may discover has a better path to Nyassa than by Shire — we shall 

 choose the best, of course, and let you know as soon as possible. I 

 think the Government will not hold back if we have a feasible plan to 

 offer. I have recommended to the Universities Mission a little delay 

 till we explore, — and for a working staff, two gardeners acquainted 

 with farming ; two country carpenters, capable of erecting sheds and 

 any rough work; two traders to purchase and prepare cotton for 

 exportation ; one general steward of mission goods, his wife to be 

 a good plain cook ; one medical man, having knowledge of chemistry 

 enough to regulate indigo and sugar-making. All the attendants to be 

 married, and their wives to be employed in sewing, washing, attending 

 the sick, etc., as need requires. The missionaries not to think them- 

 selves deserving a good English wife till they have erected a com- 

 fortable abode for her." 



In the Royal Geographical Society this year (i860), 

 certain communications were read which tended to call in 

 question Livingstone's right to. some of the discoveries -he 

 had claimed as his own, Mr. Macqueen, through whom 

 these communications came, must have had peculiar 

 notions of discovery, for some time before, there had 

 appeared in the Cape papers a statement of his, that 

 Lake 'Ngami of 1859 was no new discovery, as Dr. 

 Livingstone had visited it seven years before ; and Living- 

 stone had to write to the papers in favour of the claims 

 of Murray, Oswell, and Livingstone, against himself ! It 

 had been asserted to the Society by Mr. Macqueen, that 

 Silva Porto, a Portuguese trader, had shown him a journal 

 describing a journey of his from Benguela on the west 

 to Ibo and Mozambique on the east, beghming November 

 26, 1852, and terminating August 1854. Of that journal 

 Mr. Macqueen read a copious abstract to the Society 

 (June 27, 1859) which is published in the Journal for 

 1860. 



In a letter to Sir Roderick Murchison (20th February 

 1861), Livingstone, while exonerating Mr. Macqueen of 

 all intention of misleading, gives his reasons for doubt- 

 ing whether the journey to the East Coast ever took 



