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never rose higher, his utter abandonment of self, his 

 entire devotion to duty, his right honourable determina- 

 tion to work while it was called to-day never shone more 

 brightly than when he declined all Stanley's entreaties 

 to return home, and set his face steadfastly to go back to 

 the bogs of the watershed. He writes in his Journal : 

 " My daughter Agnes says, ' Much as I wish you to come 

 home, I had rather that you finished your work to your 

 own satisfaction, than return merely to gratify me. 5 

 Rightly and nobly said, my darling Nannie ; vanity 

 whispers pretty loudly, ' She is a chip of the old block.' 

 My blessing on her and all the rest." 



After careful consideration of various plans, it was 

 agreed that he should go to Unyanyembe, accompanied 

 by Stanley, who would supply him there with abundance 

 of goods, and who would then hurry down to the coast, 

 organise a new expedition composed of fifty or sixty 

 faithful men to be sent on to Unyanyembe, by whom 

 Livingstone would be accompanied back to Bangweolo 

 and the sources, and then to Rua, until his work should 

 be completed, and he might go home in peace. 



A few extracts from Livingstone's letters will show us 

 how he felt at this remarkable crisis. To Agnes : — 



"Tanganyika, \%fh November 1871. — [After detailing his troubles in 

 Manyuema, the loss of all his goods at Ujiji, and the generous offer of 

 Syed bin Majid, he continues :] Next I heard of an Englishman being 

 at Unyanyembe with boats, etc., but who he was, none could tell. At 

 last one of my people came running out of breath and shouted, ' An 

 Englishman coming ! ' and off he darted back again to meet him. An 

 American flag at the head of a large caravan showed the nationality 

 of the stranger. Baths, tents, saddles, big kettles, showed that he was 

 not a poor Lazarus like me. He turned out to be Henry M. Stanley, 

 travelling correspondent to the New York Herald, sent specially to find 

 out if I were really alive, and, if dead, to bring home my bones. He 

 had brought abundance of goods at great expense, but the fighting 

 referred to delayed him, and he had to leave a great part at Unyanyembe. 

 To all he had I was made free. [In a later letter, Livingstone says : 

 ' He laid all he had at my service, divided his clothes into two heaps, 

 and pressed one heap upon me ; then his medicine-chest ; then his 



