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the 11th January 1862 they entered the Zambesi. They 

 proceeded to the great Luabo mouth, as being more 

 advantageous than the Kongone for a supply of wood. 

 They were a month behind their appointment, and no 

 ship was to be seen. The ship had been there, it turned 

 out, on the 8th January, had looked eagerly for the 

 " Pioneer," had fancied it saw the black funnel and its 

 smoke in the river, and being disappointed had made for 

 Mozambique, been caught in a gale, and was unable to 

 return for three weeks. Livingstone's letters show him a 

 little out of sorts at the manifold obstructions that had 

 always been making him "too- late"- — -"too late for 

 Bovuma below, too late for Rovuma above, and now too 

 late for our own appointment," but in greater trouble 

 because the " Lady Nyassa " had not been sent by sea, 

 as he had strongly urged, and as: it afterwards appeared 

 might have been done quite well. To take out the 

 pieces and fit them up would involve heavy expense and 

 long delay, and perhaps the. season would be lost again. 

 But Livingstone had always a saving clause, in all his 

 lamentations, and here it is : "I know that all was done 

 for the best." 



At length, on the last day of January, H.M.S. 

 " Gorgon," with a brig in tow, hove in sight. When the 

 "Pioneer" was seen,, up went the signal from the 

 " Gorgon " — " I have steamboat in the brig ; " to which 

 Livingstone replied — " Welcome news." Then " Wife 

 aboard " was signalled from the ship ; — " Accept my 

 best thanks " concluded what Livingstone called " the 

 most interesting conversation he had engaged in for 

 many a day." Next morning the " Pioneer " steamed 

 out, and Dr. Livingstone found his wife " all right." In 

 the same ship with Mrs. Livingstone, besides Miss Mac- 

 kenzie and Mrs. Burrup, the Bev. E. Hawkins and others 

 of the Universities Mission, had come the Bev. James 

 Stewart of the Free Church of Scotland (now Dr. Stewart 



