xxin. J POSTHUMOUS INFLUENCE. 4C9 



Mr. E. D. Young, B.N., who led the party, and by his 

 great experience and wonderful way of managing the 

 natives, laid not only the founders of Livingstonia, but 

 the friends of Africa, under obligations that have never 

 been sufficiently acknowledged. 1 In concert with the 

 " Livingstone Central African Company," considerable 

 progress has been made in exploring the neighbouring 

 regions, and the recent exploit of Mr. James Stewart, 

 C.E., one of the lay helpers of the Mission, in traversing 

 the country between Nyassa and Tanganyika, is an im- 

 portant contribution to geography. 2 It would have 

 gratified Livingstone to think that in conducting this 

 settlement several of the Scotch Churches were practi- 

 cally at one — Free, Reformed, and United Presbyterian ; 

 while at Blantyre on the Shire the Established Church 

 of Scotland, with a mission and a colony of mechanics, 

 has taken its share in the work. 



Under Bishop Steere, the successor of Bishop Tozer, 

 the Universities Mission has re-occupied part of the main- 

 land, and the freed-slave village of Masasi, situated be- 

 tween the sea and Nyassa, to the north of the Rovuma, 

 enjoys a measure of prosperity which has never been 

 interrupted during the three or four years of its existence. 

 Other stations have been formed, or are projected, one of 

 them on the eastern margin of the lake. The Church 

 Missionary Society has occupied the shores of Victoria 

 Nyanza, achieving great results amid many trials and 

 sacrifices, at first wonderfully aided and encouraged by 

 King Mtesa, though, as we write, we hear accounts of a 

 change of policy which is grievously disappointing. Lake 

 Tanganyika has been occupied by the London Missionary 

 Society. 



The "Societe des Missions fivangeliques" of Paris has 

 made preparations for occupying the Barotse valley, near 



1 See his work. Nyassa: London, 1877. 



2 See Transactions of Royal Geographical Society, 18S0. 



