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done for me. God guide you safe home, and bless you, 

 my friend.' — ' And may God bring you safe back to us all, 

 my dear friend. Farewell!' — 'Farewell.' . . . My friendly 

 reader, I wrote the above extracts in my Diary on the 

 evening of each day. I look at them now after six 

 months have passed away ; yet I am not ashamed of 

 them ; my eyes feel somewhat dimmed at the recollec- 

 tion of the parting. I dared not erase, nor modify what 

 I had penned, while my feelings were strong. God 

 grant that if ever you take to travelling in Africa you 

 will get as noble and true a man for your companion 

 as David Livingstone ! For four months and four days I 

 lived with him in the same house, or in the same boat, 

 or in the same tent, and I never found a fault in him. I 

 am a man of a quick temper, and often without sufficient 

 cause, I daresay, have broken the ties of friendship ; 

 but with Livingstone I never had cause for resent- 

 ment, but each day's life with him added to my admira- 

 tion for him." 



If Stanley's feeling for Livingstone was thus at the 

 warmest temperature, Livingstone's sense of the service 

 done to him by Stanley was equally unqualified. What- 

 ever else he might be or might not be, he had proved 

 a true friend to him. He had risked his life in the 

 attempt to reach him, had been delighted to share with 

 him every comfort he possessed, and to leave with him 

 ample stores of all that might be useful to him in his 

 effort to finish his work. Whoever may have been to 

 blame for it, it is certain that Livingstone had been 

 afflicted for years, and latterly worried almost to death, 

 by the inefficiency and worthlessness of the men sent 

 to serve him. In Stanley he found one whom he could 

 trust implicitly to do everything that zeal and energy 

 could contrive in order to find him efficient men and 

 otherwise carry out his plans. It was Stanley therefore 

 whom he commissioned to send him up men from 



