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Mophi, might be found, and the fountains between them 

 which it was impossible to fathom ; and that it might be 

 seen that from that region there was a river flowing 

 north to Egypt, and another flowing south to a country 

 that might have been called Ethiopia. But whatever 

 might be his views or aims, it was ordained that in the 

 wanderings of his last years he should bring within the 

 sympathies of the Christian world many a poor tribe other- 

 wise unknown; that he should witness sights, surpassing 

 all he had ever seen before of the inhumanity and horrors 

 of the slave-traffic — sights that harrowed his inmost soul ; 

 and that when his final appeal to his countrymen on be- 

 half of its victims came, not from his living voice but 

 from his tomb, it should gather from a thousand touching 

 associations a thrilling power that would rouse the world, 

 and finally root out the accursed thing. 



A very valuable testimony was borne by Sir Bartle 

 Frere to the real aims of Livingstone, and the value 

 of his work, especially in this last journey, in a speech 

 delivered in the Glasgow Chamber of Commerce, 10th 

 November 1876 : — 



" The object," he said, "of Dr. Livingstone's geographical and 

 scientific explorations was to lead his countrymen to the great work of 

 christianising and civilising the millions of Central Africa. You will 

 recollect how when first he came back from his wonderful journey, 

 though we were all greatly startled by his achievements and by what 

 he told us, people really did not lay what he said much to heart. They 

 were stimulated to take up the cause of African discovery again, and 

 other travellers went out and did excellent service ; but the great fact 

 which was from the very first upon Livingstone's mind, and which he 

 used to impress upon you, did not make the impression he wished, and 

 although a good many people took more and more interest in the 

 civilisation of Africa and in the abolition of the slave-trade, which he 

 pointed out was the great obstacle to all progress, still it did not come 

 home to the people generally. It was not until his third and last 

 journey, when he was no more to return among us, that the descrip- 

 tions which he gave of the horrors of the slave-trade in the interior 

 really took hold upon the mind of the people of this country, and made 

 them determine that what used to be considered the crotchet of a few 

 religious minds and humanitarian sort of persons, should be a phase 



