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wrote to his friend (25th November 1861): " A Dr. Stewart 

 is sent out by the Free Church of Scotland to confer 

 with me about a Scotch colony. You will guess my 

 answer. Dr. Kirk is with me in opinion, and if I could 

 only get you out to take a trip up to the plateau of 

 Zomba, and over the uplands which surround Lake 

 Nyassa, you would give in too." 



When the party returned to the ship they had a 

 visit from Bishop Mackenzie, who was in good spirits and 

 had excellent hopes of the Mission. The Ajawa had been 

 defeated, and had professed a desire to be at peace with 

 the English. But Dr. Livingstone was not without mis- 

 givings on this point. The details of the defeat of the 

 Ajawa, in which the missionaries had taken an active part, 

 troubled him, as we find from his private Journal. 

 " The Bishop," he says (14th November), " takes a totally 

 different view of the affair from what I do." There were 

 other points on which the utter inexperience of the mis- 

 sionaries, and want of skill in dealing with the natives, 

 gave him serious anxiety. It is impossible not to see 

 that even thus early, the Mission, in Livingstone's eyes, 

 had lost something of its bloom. 



It was arranged that the " Pioneer" should go down 

 to the mouth of the Zambesi, to meet a man-of-war with 

 provisions, and bring up the pieces of the new lake vessel, 

 the " Lady Nyassa," which was eagerly expected, along 

 with Mrs. Livingstone, Miss Mackenzie the Bishop's 

 sister, and other members of the Mission party. An 

 appointment was made for January at the mouth of the 

 river Buo, a tributary of the Shire, where the Bishop was 

 to meet them. He and Mr. Burrup, who had just arrived, 

 were meanwhile to explore the neighbouring country. 



The " Pioneer " was detained for five weeks on a shoal 

 twenty miles below Chibisa's, and here the first death 

 occurred — the carpenter's mate succumbed to fever. It 

 was extremely irksome to suffer this long detention, to 



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