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cutters for the "Pioneer;" and the two Waiyau lads, 

 Wikatani and Chuma, had been among the slaves rescued 

 in 1 8 6 1 , and had lived for some time at the mission station 

 at Chibisa's. Besides these, he carried with him a sort of 

 menagerie in a dhow — six camels, three buffaloes and 

 a calf, two mules, and four donkeys. What man but 

 Dr. Livingstone would have encumbered himself with 

 such baggage, and for what conceivable purpose except 

 the benefit of Africa ? The tame buffaloes of India were 

 taken that he might try whether, like the wild buffaloes 

 of Africa, they would resist the bite of the tsetse-fly ; 

 the other animals for the same purpose. There were 

 two words of which Livingstone might have said, as 

 Queen Mary said of Calais, that at his death they would 

 be found engraven on his heart — fever and tsetse; the 

 one the great scourge of man, the other of beast, in South 

 Africa. To help to counteract two such foes to African 

 civilisation no trouble or expense would have been 

 judged too great. Already he had lost nine of his 

 buffaloes at Zanzibar. It was a sad pity that owing to 

 the ill treatment of the remaining animals by his people, 

 who turned out a poor lot, it could never be known con- 

 clusively whether the tsetse -bite was fatal to them or not. 

 In spite of all he had suffered in Africa, and though 

 he was without the company of a single European, he 

 had, in setting out, something of the exhilarating feeling 

 of a young traveller starting on his first tour in Switzer- 

 land, deepened by the sense of nobility which there is 

 in every endeavour to do good to others. "The mere 

 animal pleasure of travelling in a wild unexplored country 

 is very great. . . . The sweat of one's brow is no 

 longer a curse when one works for God ; it proves a tonic 

 to the system, and is actually a blessing." The Rovuma 

 was found to have changed greatly since his last visit, so 

 that he had to land his goods twenty-five miles to the 

 north at Mikindany harbour, and find his way down to 



