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guese passage of the river. If, however, any one chooses to claim 

 for them the discovery of Chambeze as one line of drainage of the Nile 

 valley, I shall not fight with him ; Culpepper's astrology was in the 

 same way the forerunner of the Herschels' and the other astronomers 

 that followed." 



To another old friend, Mr. James Young, he wrote 

 about the same time : " Opere peracto ludemus — the work 

 being finished, we will play — you remember in your Latin 

 Rudiments lang syne. It is true for you, and I rejoice 

 to think it is now your portion, after working nobly, to 

 play. May you have a long spell of it ! I am differently 

 situated ; I shall never be able to play. ... To me it 

 seems to be said, ' If thou forbear to deliver them that 

 are drawn unto death, and those that be ready to be 

 slain ; if thou sayest, Behold we knew it not, doth not 

 He that pondereth the heart consider, and He that keepeth 

 thy soul doth He not know, and shall He not give to 

 every one according to his works ? ' I have been led, un- 

 wittingly, into the slaving field of the Banians and Arabs 

 in Central Africa. I have seen the woes inflicted, and I 

 must still work and do all I can to expose and mitigate 

 the evils. Though hard work is still to be my lot, I look 

 genially on others more favoured in their lot. I would 

 not be a member of the ' International,' for I love to see 

 and think of others enjoying life. 



" During a large part of this journey I had a strong 

 presentiment that I should never live to finish it. It 

 is weakened now, as I seem to see the end towards 

 which I have been striving looming in the distance. 

 This presentiment did not interfere with the performance 

 of any duty ; it only made me think a great deal more 

 of the future state of being." 



In his latest letters there is abundant evidence that 

 the great desire of his heart was to expose the slave- 

 trade, rouse public feeling, and get that great hindrance 

 to all good for ever swept away. 



