380 DAVID LIVINGSTONE. [chap. xix. 



and by the end of 1867, Mr. Young, after a most active, 

 gallant, and successful campaign, was approaching the 

 shores of England. 1 No enterprise could have brought 

 more satisfactory results, and all in the incredibly short 

 period of eight months. 



Meanwhile, Livingstone, little thinking of all the com- 

 motion that the knave Musa had created, was pushing on 

 in the direction of Lake Tanganyika. Though it was not 

 true that he had been murdered, it was true that he was 

 half-starved. The want of other food compelled him to 

 subsist to a large extent on African maize, the most 

 tasteless and unsatisfying of food. It never produced 

 the feeling of sufficiency, and it would set him to dream 

 of dinners he had once eaten, though dreaming was not 

 his habit, except when he was ill. Against his will, the 

 thought of delicious feasts would come upon him, making 

 it all the more difficult to be cheerful, with, probably, the 

 poorest fare on which life could be in any way maintained. 

 To complete his misery, his four goats were lost, so that 

 the one comfort of his table — a little milk along with 

 his maize — was taken from him when most eagerly 

 sought and valued. 



In reviewing the year 1866, he finds it less productive 

 of results than he had hoped for: "We now end 1866. 

 It has not been so fruitful or useful as I intended. Will 

 try to do better in 1867, and be better — more gentle and 

 loving ; and may the Almighty, to whom I commit my 

 way, bring my desires to pass, and prosper me ! Let all 

 the sins of '66 be blotted out, for Jesus' sake. May He 

 who was full of grace and truth impress His character on 

 mine : grace — eagerness to show favour ; truth — truthful- 

 ness, sincerity, honour — for His mercy's sake." 



Habitually brave and fearless though Livingstone 

 was, it was not without frequent self-stimulation, and 

 acts of faith in unseen truth, that the peace of his mind 



1 See The Search for Livingstone, by E. D. Young : London, 1868. 



