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I spent two hours in his society last evening at Dr. Wilson's. He was 

 not very complimentary to Burton. He is to lecture in public this 

 evening." 



Another friend, Mr. Alexander Brown, now of Liver- 

 pool, sends a brief note of a very delightful excursion 

 given by him, in honour of Livingstone, to the caves of 

 Kennery or Kenhari, in the island of Salsette. There 

 was a pretty large party. After leaving the railway 

 station, they rode on ponies to the caves. 



" We spent a most charming day in the caves, and the wild jungle 

 around them. Dr. Wilson, you may believe, was in his element, 

 pouring forth volumes of Oriental lore in connection with the Buddhist 

 faith and the Kenhari caves, which are among the most striking and 

 interesting monuments of it in India. They are of great extent, and 

 the main temple is in good preservation. Doctor Livingstone's 

 almost boyish enjoyment of the whole thing impressed me greatly. 

 The stern, almost impassive, man seemed to unbend, and enter most 

 thoroughly into the spirit of a day in which pleasure and instruc- 

 tion, under circumstances of no little interest, were so delightfully 

 combined." 



At Bombay, he heard disquieting tidings of the 

 Hanoverian traveller, Baron van der Decken. In his 

 Journal he says : — 



"29th December 1865. — The expedition of the Baron van der 

 Decken has met with a disaster up the Juba. He had gone up 300 

 miles, and met only with the loss of his steam launch. He then ran 

 his steamer on two rocks and made two large holes in her bottom. 

 The Baron and Dr. Link got out in order to go to the chief to 

 conciliate him. He had been led to suspect war. Then a large 

 party came and attacked them, killing the artist Trenn and the chief 

 engineer. They were beaten off, and Lieutenant von Schift with four 

 survivors left in the boat, and in four days came down the stream. 

 Thence they came in a dhow to Zanzibar. It is feared that the Baron 

 may be murdered, but possibly not. It looks ill that the attack was 

 made after he landed. 



" My times are in Thy hand, Lord ! Go Thou with me and I am 

 safe. And above all, make me useful in promoting Thy cause of peace 

 and good-will among men." 



The rumour of the Baron's death was subsequently 

 confirmed. His mode of treating the natives was the 

 very opposite of Livingstone's, who regarded the manner 



