426 DA VID LIVINGSTONE. [chap. xxi. 



goods and everything he had, and to coax my appetite, often cooked 

 dainty dishes with his own hand.'] He came with the true American 

 characteristic generosity. The tears often started into my eyes on 

 every fresh proof of kindness. My appetite returned, and I ate three 

 or four times a day, instead of scanty meals morning and evening. I 

 soon felt strong, and never wearied with the strange news of Europe 

 and America he told. The tumhle-down of the French Empire was 

 like a dream. . . ." 



A long letter to his friends Sir Thomas Maclear and 

 Mr. Mann of the same date goes over his travels in 

 Manyuema, his many disasters, and then his wonderful 

 meeting with Mr. Stanley at Ujiji. Speaking of the 

 unwilhngness of the natives to believe in the true 

 purpose of his journey, he says : — " They all treat me 

 with respect, and are very much afraid of being written 

 against ; but they consider the sources of the Nile to be a 

 sham ; the true object of my being sent is to see their 

 odious system of slaving, and if indeed my disclosures 

 should lead to the suppression of the East Coast slave-trade, 

 I would esteem that as afar greater feat than the discovery 

 of all the sources together. It is awful, but I cannot 

 speak of the slaving for fear of appearing guilty of 

 exaggerating. It is not trading ; it is murdering for 

 captives to be made into slaves." His account of himself 

 in the journey from Nyangwe is dreadful : — " I was near 

 a fourth lake on this central line, and only eighty miles 

 from Lake Lincoln on our west, in fact almost in sight 

 of the geographical end of my mission, when I was 

 forced to return [through the misconduct of his men] 

 between 400 and 500 miles. A sore heart, made still 

 sorer by the sad scenes I had seen of man's inhumanity 

 to man, made this march a terrible tramp — the sun 

 vertical, and the sore heart reacting on the physical 

 frame. I was in pain nearly every step of the way, and 

 arrived a mere ruckle of bones to find myself destitute." 

 In speaking of the impression made by Mr. Stanley's 

 kindness : — " I am as cold and non-demonstrative as we 



