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place. He had met Porto at Linyanti in 1853, and sub- 

 sequently at Naliele, the Barotse capital, and had been 

 told by him that he had tried to go eastwards, but had 

 been obliged to turn, and was then going westwards, 

 and wished him to accompany him, which he declined, 

 as he was a slave-trader ; he had read his journal as it 

 appeared in the Loanda " Boletim," but there was not 

 a word in it of a journey to the East Coast ; when the 

 Portuguese minister had wished to find a rival to Dr. 

 Livingstone, he had brought forward, not Porto, as he 

 would naturally have done if this had been a genuine 

 journey, but two black men who came to Tette in 1815 ; 

 in the Boletim of Mozambique there was no word of the 

 arrival of Porto there ; in short, the part of the journal 

 founded on could not have been authentic. Livingstone 

 felt keenly on the subject of these rumours, not on his 

 own account, but on account of the Geographical Society 

 and of Sir Roderick who had introduced him to it ; for 

 nothing could have given him more pain than that either 

 of these should have had any slur thrown on them through 

 him, or even been placed for a time in an uncomfortable 

 position. 



