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defined in his mind. He even drafts a despatch which he 

 hopes to write, saying that the fountains are within a 

 quarter of a mile of each other ! 



Then he bethinks him of his friends who have done 

 noble battle with slavery, and half in fancy, half in 

 earnest, attaches their names to the various waters. The 

 fountain of the Liambai or Upper Zambesi he names 

 Palmerston Fountain, in fond remembrance of that good 

 man's long and unwearied labour for the abolition of the 

 slave-trade. The lake formed by the Lufira is to be 

 Lincoln Lake, in gratitude to him who gave freedom to 

 four millions of slaves. The fountain of Lufira is associated 

 with Sir Bartle Frere, who accomplished the grand work 

 of abolishing slavery in Sindia in Upper India. The 

 central Lualaba is called the River Webb, after the 

 warm-hearted friend under whose roof he wrote The 

 Zambesi and its Tributaries; while the western branch 

 is named the Young River, to commemorate his early 

 instructor in chemistry and life-long friend, James 

 Young. " He has shed pure white light in many lowly 

 cottages and in some rich palaces. I too have shed 

 light of another kind, and am fain to believe that I have 

 performed a small part in the grand revolution which 

 our Maker has been for ages carrying on, by multitudes 

 of conscious and many unconscious agents, all over the 

 world." 1 



He is by no means unaware that death may be in the 

 cup. But, fortified as he was by an unalterable convic- 

 tion that he was in the line of duty, the thought of 

 death had no influence to turn him either to the right 

 hand or to the left. For the first three years he had 

 had a strong presentiment that he would fall. But it 

 had passed away as he came near the end, and now 

 he prayed God that when he retired it might be to 

 his native home. 



1 See Last Journals, vol. ii. pp. 65, 6(i. 



