366 DAVID LIVINGSTONE. [chap. xvm. 



On New Year's Day 1866 he writes in his Journal: — 

 " The Governor told me that he had much pleasure in 

 giving Dr. Kirk an appointment ; he would telegraph to 

 him to-day. It is to be at Zanzibar, where he will be of 

 great use in promoting all good works." 



It had been arranged that Dr. Livingstone was to 

 cross to Zanzibar in the "Thule," a steamer that had 

 formed part of the squadron of Captain Sherard Osborn 

 in China, and which Livingstone had now the honour of 

 being commissioned to present to the Sultan of Zanzibar, 

 as a present from Sir Bartle Frere, and the Bombay 

 Government. 



We give a few extracts from his journal at sea : — 



" 1 7 th January. — Issued flannel to all the boys from Nassick ; the 

 marines have theirs from Government. The boys sing a couple of 

 hymns every evening, and repeat the Lord's Prayer. I mean to keep 

 up this, and make this a Christian expedition, telling a little about 

 Christ wherever we go. His love in coming down to save men will 

 be our theme. I dislike very much to make my religion distasteful to 



others. This, with 's hypocritical ostentation, made me have fewer 



religious services on the Zambesi than would have been desirable, per- 

 haps. He made religion itself distasteful by excessive ostentation. . . . 

 Good works gain the approbation of the world, and though there is 

 antipathy in the human heart to the gospel of Christ, yet when 

 Christians make their good works shine all admire them. It is when 

 great disparity exists between profession and practice that we secure 

 the scorn of mankind. The Lord help me to act in all cases in this 

 Expedition as a Christian ought ! 



" 23d January. — My second book has been reviewed very favour- 

 ably by the Athenceum and the Saturday Review, and by many news- 

 papers. Old John Crawford gives a snarl in the Examiner, but I can 

 afford that it should be so. 4800 copies were sold on first night of 

 Mr. Murray's sale. It is rather a handsome volume. I hope it may do 

 some good." 



In a letter to Mr. James Young he writes of his 

 voyage, and discharges a characteristic spurt of humour 

 at a mutual Edinburgh acquaintance who had mistaken 

 an order about a magic lantern : — 



"At sea, 300 miles from Zanzibar, 26th January 1866. — "We have 

 enjoyed fair weather in coming across the weary waste of waters. 



