364 DA VID LIVINGSTONE. [chap, xviii. 



of his death as another proof that it was not safe to 

 disregard the manhood of the African people. 



The Bombay lecture was a great success. Dr. 

 Wilson, Free Church Missionary, was in the chair, and 

 after the lecture tried to rouse the Bombay merchants, 

 and especially the Scotch ones, to help the enterprise. 

 Beferring to the driblets that had been contributed by 

 Government and the Geographical Society, he proposed 

 that in Bombay they should raise as much as both. In 

 his next letter to his daughter, Livingstone tells of the 

 success of the lecture, of the subscription, which promised 

 to amount to £1000 (it did not quite do so), and of his 

 wish that the Bombay merchants should use the money 

 for setting up a trading establishment in Africa. " I 

 must first of all find a suitable spot ; then send back 

 here to let it be known. I shall then be off in my 

 work for the Geographical Society, and when that is 

 done, if I am well, I shall come back to the first station." 

 He goes on to speak of the facilities he had received 

 for transporting Indian buffaloes and other animals to 

 Africa, and of the extraordinary kindness and interest 

 of Sir Bartle Frere, and the pains he had taken to 

 commend him to the good graces of the Sultan of 

 Zanzibar, then in Bombay. He speaks pleasantly of 

 his sojourn with Dr. Wilson and other friends. He is 

 particularly pleased with the management and menu of a 

 house kept by four bachelors — and then he adds : "Your 

 mamma was an excellent manager of the house, and made 

 everything comfortable. I suppose it is the habit of 

 attending to little things that makes such a difference in 

 different houses. As I am to be away from all luxury 

 soon, I may as well live comfortably with the bachelors 

 while I can." 



To Mr. James Young he writes about the "Lady 

 Nyassa," which he had sold, after several advertisements, 

 but only for £2300 : " The whole of the money given for 



