360 DAVID LIVINGSTONE. [chap. xvm. 



now transforming Paris [Baron Hausmann] was a Pro- 

 testant, and had once taught a Sunday-school in the 

 south of France ; and that probably he had greater 

 pleasure in the first than in the second work. The 

 remark had a certain applicability to his own case, and 

 probably let out a little of his own feeling ; it showed at 

 least his estimate of the relative place of temporal and 

 spiritual philanthropy. The prayer that followed was 

 expressive of his deepest feelings towards his best- 

 beloved on earth : " May the Almighty qualify you to be a 

 blessing to those around you, wherever your lot is cast. 

 I know that you hate all that is mean and false. May 

 God make you good, and to delight in doing good to 

 others. If you ask He will give abundantly. The Lord 

 bless you I" 



From a Bombay gentleman who was his fellow- 

 traveller to India a little anecdote has casually come 

 to our knowledge illustrating the unobtrusiveness of 

 Livingstone — his dislike to being made a lion of. At 

 the table-dlwte of the hotel in Marseilles, where some 

 Bombay merchants were sitting, the conversation turned 

 on Africa in connection with ivory — an extensive article 

 of trade in Bombay. One friend dropped the remark, " I 

 wonder where that old chap Livingstone is now/' To 

 his surprise and discomfiture, a voice replied, " Here he 

 is." They were fast friends all through the voyage that 

 followed. Little of much interest happened during that 

 voyage. Livingstone writes that Palgrave was in Cairo 

 when he passed through, but he did not see him. Of 

 Baker he could hear nothing. Miss Thine, the Dutch lady, 

 of whom he thought highly as a traveller, had not been 

 very satisfactory to the religious part of the English com- 

 munity at Cairo. Miss Whately was going home for 

 six weeks, but was to be back to her Egyptian Bagged 

 School. He saw the end of the Lesseps canal, about 

 the partial opening of which they were making a great 



