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copying his journals. The " Livingstone room," as it is 

 called, in the Sussex tower, is likely to be associated 

 with his name while the building lasts. It was his habit 

 to rise early and work at his book, to return to his task 

 after breakfast and continue till luncheon, and in the 

 afternoon have a long walk with Mr. Webb. It is only 

 when the book is approaching its close that we find him 

 working "till two in the morning." One of his chief 

 recreations was in the field of natural history, watching 

 experiments with the spawning of trout. He endeared 

 himself to all, high and low ; was a special favourite with 

 the children, and did not lose opportunities to commend, 

 in the way he thought best, those high views of life and 

 duty which had been so signally exemplified in his own 

 career. The playfulness of his nature found full and 

 constant scope at Newstead ; he regained an almost 

 boyish flow of animal spirits, revelled in fun and frolic in 

 his short notes to friends like Mr. Young, or Mr. Webb 

 when he happened to be absent ; wrote in the style of 

 Mr. Punch, and called his opponents by ludicrous names ; 

 yet never forgot the stern duty that loomed before him, 

 or allowed the enjoyment and abandon of the moment to 

 divert him from the death-struggle on behalf of Africa in 

 which he had yet to engage. 



The book was at first to be a little one, — a blast of 

 the trumpet against the monstrous slave-trade of the 

 Portuguese ; but it swelled to a goodly octavo, and 

 embraced the history of the Zambesi Expedition. Charles 

 Livingstone had written a full diary, and in order that 

 his name might be on the title-page, and he might have 

 the profits of the American edition, his journal was made 

 use of in the writing of the book ; but the arrangement 

 was awkward ; sometimes Livingstone forgot the under- 

 standing of joint-authorship, and he found that he could 

 more easily have written the whole from the foundation. 

 At first it was designed that the book should appear 



