4 oo DA VID LIVINGSTONE. [chap. xx. 



became overpowering, and on 7th February Dr. Living- 

 stone had to go into winter quarters. He remained 

 quiet till 26th June. 



In April 1870, from " Manyuema or Cannibal Country, 

 say 150 miles n.w. of Ujiji," he began a letter to Sir 

 Roderick Murchison, but changed its destination to his 

 brother John in Canada. He notices his immediate 

 object — to ascertain where the Lualaba joined the eastern 

 branch of the Nile, and contrasts the lucid reasonable 

 problem set him by Sir Roderick with the absurd 

 instructions he had received from some members of the 

 Geographical Society. " I was to furnish ' a survey on 

 successive pages of my journal/ ' latitudes every night,' 

 ' hydrography of Central Africa/ and because they voted 

 one-fifth or perhaps one-sixth part of my expenses, give 

 them c all my notes, copies if not the originals !' For 

 mere board and no lodgings I was to work for years 

 and hand over the results to them." Contrasted with 

 such absurdities, Sir Roderick's proposal had quite 

 fascinated him. He had ascertained that the watershed 

 extended 800 miles from west to east, and had traversed 

 it in every direction, but at a cost which had been 

 wearing out both to mind and body. He drops a tear 

 over the Universities Mission, but becomes merry over 

 Bishop Tozer strutting about with his crosier at Zanzibar, 

 and in a fine clear day getting a distant view of the 

 continent of which he claimed to be Bishop. He 

 denounces the vile policy of the Portuguese, and laments 

 the indecision of some influential persons who virtually 

 upheld it. He is tickled with the generous offer of a 

 small salary, when he should settle somewhere, that had 

 been made to him by the Government, while men who 

 had risked nothing were getting handsome salaries of far 

 greater amount ; but rather than sacrifice the good of 

 Africa, he would spend every penny of his private 

 means. He seems surrounded by a whole sea of diffi- 



