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Aulocaudatus Swindermanus, or some equally wise agglu- 

 tination of syllables. . . . My chronometers are all dead ; I 

 hope my old watch was sent to Zanzibar ; but I have got 

 no letters for years, save some, three years old, at Ujiji. 

 I have an intense and sore longing to finish and retire, 

 and trust that the Almighty may permit me to go home." 



In one of his letters to Agnes from Manyuema he 

 quotes some words from a letter of hers that he ever 

 after cherished as a most refreshing cordial : — 



" T commit myself to the Almighty Disposer of events, 

 and if I fall, will do so doing my duty, like one of His 

 stout-hearted servants. I am delighted to hear you say 

 that, much as you wish me home, you would rather hear 

 of my finishing my work to my own satisfaction than 

 come merely to gratify you. That is a noble sentence, 

 and I felt all along sure that all my friends would wish 

 me to make a complete work of it, and in that wish, in 

 spite of every difficulty, I cordially joined. I hope to 

 present to my young countrymen an example of manly 

 perseverance. I shall not hide from you that I am made 

 by it very old and shaky, my cheeks fallen in, space round 

 the eyes ditto ; mouth almost toothless, — a few teeth that 

 remain, out of their line, so that a smile is that of a he- 

 hippopotamus, — a dreadful old fogie, and you must tell 

 Sir Roderick that it is an utter impossibility for me to 

 appear in public till I get new teeth, and even then the 

 less I am seen the better." 



Another letter to Agnes from Manyuema gives a 

 curious account of the young soko or gorilla a chief had 

 lately presented to him : — 



" She sits crouching eighteen inches high, and is the most intelli- 

 gent and least mischievous of all the monkeys I have seen. She 

 holds out her hand to be lifted and carried, and if refused makes her 

 face as in a bitter human weeping, and wrings her hands quite 

 humanly, sometimes adding a foot or third hand to make the appeal 

 more touching. ... She knew me at once as a friend, and when plagued 

 by any one always placed her back to me for safety, came and sat down 



