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would have conferred untold blessing on Africa. He 

 determined to make this known very clearly when 

 he should return to England. At a future period of 

 his life he purposed, if spared, to go more fully into 

 the reasons of his recall. Meanwhile his course was 

 simply to acquiesce in the resolution of the British 

 Government. 



It was unfortunate that the recall took place before he 

 had been able to carry into effect his favourite scheme of 

 placing a steamer on Lake Nyassa ; nor could he do this 

 now, although the vessel on which he had spent half his 

 fortune lay at the Murchison Cataracts. He had always 

 cherished the hope that the Government would repay 

 him at least a part of the outlay, which, instead of £3000, 

 as he had intended, had mounted up to £6000. He had 

 very generously told Dr. Stewart that if this should be 

 done, and if he should be willing to return from Scotland 

 to labour on the shores of Nyassa, he would pay him his 

 expenses out, and £150 yearly, so anxious was he that 

 he should begin the work. On the recall of the Expedi- 

 tion, without any allowance for the ship, or even mention 

 of it, all these expectations and intentions came abruptly 

 to an end. 



At no previous time had Dr. Livingstone been under 

 greater discouragements than now. The Expedition had 

 been recalled ; his heart had not recovered from the 

 desolation caused by the death of the Bishop and his 

 brethren, as well as the Helmores in the Makololo 

 country, and still more by the removal of Mrs. Living- 

 stone, and the thought of his motherless children ; the 

 most heart-rending scenes had been witnessed everywhere 

 in regions that a short time ago had been so bright ; 

 all his efforts to do good had been turned to evil, every 

 new path he had opened having been seized as it were by 

 the devil and turned to the most diabolical ends; his 

 countrymen were nearly all away from him ; the most 



