422 DAVID LIVINGSTONE. [chap. xxi. 



so long as to his treatment by Government was thus at 

 last somewhat relieved. But the goods that had lain in 

 neglect at Bagamoio, and were now out of reach at 

 Unyanyembe, represented one-half the Government grant, 

 and would probably be squandered, like his other goods, 

 before he could reach them. 



The impression made on Stanley by Livingstone was 

 remarkably vivid, and the portrait drawn by the American 

 will be recognised as genuine by every one who knows 

 what manner of man Livingstone was : — 



" I defy any one to be in his society long without thoroughly 

 fathoming him, for in him there is no guile, and what is apparent on 

 the surface is the thing that is in him. . . . Dr. Livingstone is about 

 sixty years old, though after he was restored to health he looked like a 

 man who had not passed his fiftieth year. His hair has a brownish 

 colour yet, but is here and there streaked with grey lines over the 

 temples ; his beard and moustaches are very grey. His eyes, which 

 are hazel, are remarkably bright ; he has a sight keen as a hawk's. 

 His teeth alone indicate the weakness of age ; the hard fare of Lunda 

 has made havoc in their lines. His form, which soon assumed a 

 stoutish appearance, is a little over the ordinary height, with the 

 slightest possible bow in the shoulders. When walking he has a firm 

 but heavy tread, like that of an overworked or fatigued man. He is 

 accustomed to wear a naval cap with a semicircular peak, by which he 

 has been identified throughout Africa. His dress, when first I saw him, 

 exhibited traces of patching and repairing, but was scrupulously clean. 



" I was led to believe that Livingstone possessed a splenetic, mis- 

 anthropic temper ; some have said that he is garrulous ; that he is 

 demented ; that he has utterly changed from the David Livingstone 

 whom people knew as the reverend missionary; that he takes no 

 notes or observations but such as those which no other person could 

 read but himself, and it was reported, before I proceeded to Africa, that 

 he was married to an African princess. 



" I respectfully beg to differ with all and each of the above 

 statements. I grant he is not an angel ; but he approaches to that 

 being as near as the nature of a living man will allow. I never saw 

 any spleen or misanthropy in him : as for being garrulous, Dr. Living- 

 stone is quite the reverse; he is reserved, if anything; and to the man 

 who says Dr. Livingstone is changed, all I can say is, that he never 

 could have known him, for it is notorious that the Doctor has a fund of 

 quiet humour, which he exhibits at all times when he is among friends." 

 [After repudiating the charge as to his notes and observations, Mr. 

 Stanley continues :] " As to the report of his African marriage, it is 



