322 DAVID LIVINGSTONE. [chap. xv. 



diate " his act in taking them under his protection. 

 Therefore, when Bishop Tozer would not accept the 

 charge, he himself took them in hand, giving orders to Mr. 

 E. D. Young (as he says in his Journal), " in the event 

 of any Portuguese interfering with them in his absence, 

 to pitch him overboard ! " Through his influence arrange- 

 ments were made, as we shall see, for conveying them to 

 the Cape. Mr. R. M. Ballantyne, in his Six Months 

 at the Cape, tells us that he found, some years after- 

 wards, among the most efficient teachers in St. George's 

 Orphanage, Cape Town, one of these black girls, named 

 Dauma, whom Bishop Mackenzie had personally rescued 

 and carried on his shoulders, and whom Livingstone now 

 rescued a second time. 



Livingstone's plan for himself was to sail to Bom- 

 bay in the " Lady Nyassa," and endeavour to sell her 

 there, before returning home. The Portuguese would 

 have liked to get her, to employ her as a slaver — " But," 

 he wrote to his daughter (10th August 1863), "I would 

 rather see her go down to the depths of the Indian Ocean 

 than that. We have not been able to do all that we 

 intended for this country, owing to the jealousy and 

 slave-hunting of the Portuguese. They have hindered 

 us effectually by sweeping away the population into 

 slavery. Thousands have perished, and wherever we 

 go, human skeletons appear. I suppose that our Govern- 

 ment could not prevail on the Portuguese to put a stop 

 to this ; so we are recalled. I am only sorry that we 

 ever began near these slavers, but the great men of 

 Portugal professed so loudly their eager desire to help 

 us (and in the case of the late King I think there was 

 sincerity), that I believed them, and now find out that 

 it was all for show in Europe. ... If missions were 

 established as we hoped, I should still hope for good 

 being done to this land, but the new Bishop had to pay 

 fourpence for every pound weight of calico he bought, 



