428 DA VI D LIVINGSTONE. [chap. xxi. 



written out with all his characteristic care and beauty. 

 Another instruction had been laid upon him. If he 

 should find another set of slaves on the way to him, he 

 was to send them back, for Livingstone would on no 

 account expose himself anew to the misery, risk, and 

 disappointment he had experienced from the kind of 

 men that had compelled him to turn back at Nyangwe. 



Dr. Livingstone's last act before Mr. Stanley left him 

 was to write his letters — twenty for Great Britain, six 

 for Bombay, two for New York, and one for Zanzibar. 

 The two for New York were for Mr. Bennett of the New 

 York Herald, by whom Stanley had been sent to Africa. 



Mr. Stanley has freely unfolded to us the bitterness 

 of his heart in parting from Livingstone. " My days 

 seem to have been spent in an Elysian field ; otherwise, 

 why should I so keenly regret the near approach of the 

 parting hour ? Have I not been battered by successive 

 fevers, prostrate with agony day after day lately ? Have 

 I not raved and stormed in madness ? Have I not 

 clenched my fists in fury, and fought with the wild 

 strength of despair when in delirium '? Yet, I regret to 

 surrender the pleasure I have felt in this man's society, 

 though so dearly purchased. . . . March lith. — We had 

 a sad breakfast together. I could not eat, my heart was 

 too full ; neither did my companion seem to have an 

 appetite. We found something to do which kept us 

 longer together. At eight o'clock I was not gone, and I 

 had thought to have been off at five a.m. . . . We 

 walked side by side ; the men lifted their voices in a song. 

 I took long looks at Livingstone, to impress his features 

 thoroughly on my memory. . . . ' Now, my dear Doctor, 

 the best friends must part. You have come far enough ; 

 let me beg of you to turn back.' ' Well,' Livingstone 

 replied, ' I will say this to you : You have done what few 

 men could do, — far better than some great travellers 

 I know. And I am grateful to you for what you have 



