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feuds, — wars and depopulation ensue. We mention the 

 Bible — future state — prayer ; advise union, that they 

 would unite as one family to expel enemies, who came 

 first as slave-traders, and ended by leaving the country a 

 wilderness." 



It was about this time that Wikatani, one of the 

 two Waiyau boys who had been rescued from slavery, 

 finding, as he believed or said, some brothers and sisters 

 on the western shore of the lake, left Livingstone and 

 remained with them. There had been an impression in 

 some quarters that, according to his wont, Livingstone 

 had made him his slave ; to show the contrary, he gave 

 him his choice of remaining or going, and, when the boy 

 chose to remain, he acquiesced. 



Dr. Livingstone had ere now passed over the ground 

 where, if anywhere, he might have hoped to find a station 

 for a commercial and missionary settlement, independent 

 of the Portuguese. In this hope he was rather disap- 

 pointed. The only spot he refers to is the district west 

 of Mataka's, which, however, was so difficult of access. 

 Nearer the coast a mission might be established, and to 

 this project his mind turned afterwards ; but it would 

 not command the Nyassa district. On the whole he pre- 

 ferred the Zambesi and Shire" valley, with all their diffi- 

 culties. But the Rovuma was not hopeless, and indeed, 

 within the last few years, the Universities Mission has 

 occupied the district successfully. 



The geographical question of the watershed had now 

 to be grappled with. It is natural to ask whether this 

 question was of sufficient importance to engage his main 

 energies, and justify the incalculable sacrifices under- 

 gone by him during the remaining six years of his life. 

 First of all, we must remember, it was not his own scheme 

 — it was pressed on him by Sir Boderick Murchison and 

 the Geographical Society; and it may perhaps be doubted 

 whether, had he foreseen the cost of the enterprise, he 



