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unnecessary to say more than that it is untrue, and it is utterly 

 beneath a gentleman even to hint at such a thing in connection with 

 the name of Dr. Livingstone. 



"You may take any point in Dr. Livingstone's character, and 

 analyse it carefully, and I would challenge any man to find a 

 fault in it. . . . His gentleness never forsakes him ; his hopefulness 

 never deserts him. No harassing anxieties, distraction of mind, long 

 separation from home and kindred, can make him complain. He 

 thinks ' all will come out right at last ; ' he has such faith in the good- 

 ness of Providence. The sport of adverse circumstances, the plaything 

 of the miserable beings sent to him from Zanzibar — he has been baffled 

 and worried, even almost to the grave, yet he will not desert the charge 

 imposed upon him by his friend Sir Roderick Murchison. To the 

 stern dictates of duty, alone, has he sacrificed his home and ease, the 

 pleasures, refinements, and luxuries of civilised life. His is the Spartan 

 heroism, the inflexibility of the Roman, the enduring resolution of the 

 Anglo-Saxon — never to relinquish his work, though his heart yearns 

 for home ; never to surrender his obligations until he can write finis 

 to his work. 



" There is a good-natured abandon about Livingstone which was 

 not lost on me. Whenever he began to laugh, there was a contagion 

 about it, that compelled me to imitate him. It was such a laugh as 

 Teufelsdrockh's, — a laugh of the whole man from head to heel. If he 

 told a story, he related it in such a way as to convince one of its 

 truthfulness ; his face was so lit up by the sly fun it contained, that I 

 was sure the story was worth relating, and worth listening to. 



" Another thing that specially attracted my attention was his wonder- 

 fully retentive memory. If we remember the many years he has spent 

 in Africa, deprived of books, we may well think it an uncommon memory 

 that can recite whole poems from Byron, Burns, Tennyson, Longfellow, 

 Whittier, and Lowell. . . . 



" His religion is not of the theoretical kind, but it is a constant, 

 earnest, sincere practice. It is neither demonstrative nor loud, but 

 manifests itself in a quiet, practical way, and is always at work. 

 It is not aggressive, which sometimes is troublesome if not impertinent. 

 In him religion exhibits its loveliest features ; it governs his conduct 

 not only towards his servants but towards the natives, the bigoted 

 Mohammedans, and all who come in contact with him. Without it, 

 Livingstone, with his ardent temperament, his enthusiasm, his high 

 spirit and courage, must have become uncompanionable, and a hard 

 master. Religion has tamed him, and made him a Christian gentle- 

 man ; the crude and wilful have been refined and subdued ; religion 

 has made him the most companionable of men and indulgent of masters 

 — a man whose society is pleasurable to a degree. . . . 



" From being thwarted and hated in every possible way by the 

 Arabs and half-castes upon his first arrival at Ujiji, he has, through his 

 uniform kindness and mild, pleasant temper, won all hearts. I observed 



