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The Bath speech gave desperate offence to the Portu- 

 guese. Livingstone thought it a good sign, wrote play- 

 fully to Mr. Wehb that they were " cussin' and swearin' 

 dreadful," and wondered if they would keep their senses 

 when the book came out. In a postscript to the preface 

 to The Zambesi and its Tributaries he says, " Senhor 

 Lacerda has endeavoured to extinguish the facts 

 adduced by me at Bath by a series of papers in the 

 Portuguese official journal ; and their Minister for Foreign 

 Affairs has since devoted some of the funds of his 

 Government to the translation and circulation of Senhor 

 Lacerda's articles in the form of an English tract." He 

 replies to the allegations of the pamphlet on the main 

 points. But he was too magnanimous to make allusion 

 to the shameless indecency of the personal charges against 

 himself. "It is manifest," said Lacerda, " without the 

 least reason to doubt, that Dr. Livingstone, under the 

 pretext of propagating the Word of God (this being the 

 least in which he employed himself) and the advancement 

 of geographical and natural science, made all his steps 

 and exertions subservient to the idea of . . . eventually 

 causing the loss to Portugal of the advantages of the rich 

 commerce of the interior, and in the end, when a favour- 

 able occasion arose, that of the very territory itself." 

 Lacerda then quoted the bitter letter of Mr. Rowley in 

 illustration of Livingstone's plans and methods, and urged 

 remonstrance as a duty of the Portuguese Government. 

 "Nor," he . continued, "ought the Government of Por- 

 tugal to stop here. It ought, as we have said, to go 

 further ; because from what his countrymen say of 

 Livingstone — and to which he only answers by a mere 

 vain negation, — from what he unhesitatingly declares of 

 himself and his intentions, and from what must be 

 known to the Government by private information from 

 their delegates, it is obvious that such men as Living- 

 stone may become extremely prejudicial to the interests 



