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Livingstone, to Miss Mackenzie and Mrs. Burrup, and 

 last, not least, to Captain Wilson, who had been separ- 

 ated so long from his ship, and had risked life, position, 

 and everything, to do service to a cause which in spite of 

 all he left at a much lower ebb. 



When the "Pioneer" arrived at the bar, it was found 

 that owing to the weather the ship had been forced to 

 leave the coast, and she did not return for a fortnight. 

 There was thus another long waiting from 17th March to 

 2d April. Dr. and Mrs. Livingstone then returned to 

 Shupanga. The long detention in the most unhealthy 

 season of the year, and when fever was at its height, was 

 a sad, sad calamity. 



We are now arrived at the last illness and the death 

 of Mrs. Livingstone. After she had parted from her 

 husband at the Cape in the spring of 1858, she returned 

 with her parents to Kuruman, and in November gave 

 birth there to her youngest child, Anna Mary. There- 

 after she returned to Scotland to be near her other 

 children. Some of them were at school. No comfortable 

 home for them all could be formed, and though many 

 friends were kind, the time was not a happy one. Mrs. 

 Livingstone's desire to be with her husband was intense ; 

 not only the longings of an affectionate heart, and the 

 necessity of taking counsel with him about the family, 

 but the feeling that when overshadowed by one whose 

 faith was so strong her fluttering heart would regain its 

 steady tone, and she would be better able to help both 

 him and the children, gave vehemence to this desire. Her 

 letters to her husband tell of much spiritual darkness ; 

 his replies were the very soul of tenderness and Christian 

 earnestness. Providence seemed to favour her wish ; the 

 vessel in which she sailed was preserved from imminent 

 destruction, and she had the great happiness of finding 

 her husband alive and well. 



On the 21st of April Mrs. Livingstone became ill. 



