2 9 2 DAVID LIVINGSTONE. [chap. xiv. 



of Lovedale, South Africa), who had been sent out by a 

 committee of that Church, "to meet with Dr. Livingstone, 

 and obtain, by personal observation and otherwise, the 

 information that might be necessary to enable a com- 

 mittee at home to form a correct judgment as to the 

 possibility of founding a mission in that part of Africa." 

 It happened that some time before Mr. Stewart had 

 been tutor to Thomas Livingstone, while studying in 

 Glasgow ; this drew his sympathies to Livingstone and 

 Africa, and was another link in that wonderful chain which 

 Providence was making for the good of Africa. From Dr. 

 Stewart's " Recollections of Dr. Livingstone and the Zam- 

 besi" in the Sunday Magazine (November 1 874), we get the 

 picture from the other side. First, the sad disappointment 

 of Mrs. Livingstone on the 8th January, when no "Pioneer" 

 was to be found, with the anxious speculations raised 

 in its absence as to the cause. Then a frightful tornado 

 on the way to Mozambique, and the all but miraculous 

 escape of the brig. Then the return to the Zambesi 

 in company with H.M.S. "Gorgon," and on the 1st Feb- 

 ruary, in a lovely morning, the little cloud of smoke rising 

 close to land, and afterwards the white hull of a small 

 paddle steamer making straight for the two ships outside. 



" As the vessel approached," says Dr. Stewart, " I could make out 

 with a glass a firmly built man of about the middle height, standing 

 on the port paddle-box, and directing the ship's course. He was not 

 exactly dressed as a naval officer, but he wore that gold-laced cap which 

 has since become so well known both at home and in Africa. This 

 was Dr. Livingstone, and I said to his wife, ' There he is at last.' She 

 looked brighter at this announcement than I had seen her do any day 

 for seven months before." 



Through the help of the men of the " Gorgon," the 

 sections of the "Lady Nyassa" were speedily put on 

 board the "Pioneer," and on the 10th February the 

 vessel steamed off for the mouth of the Ruo, to meet the 

 Bishop. But its progress through the river was miser- 

 able. Says Dr. Stewart : — 



