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and Western. Cape Town, where the missionary landed, is a city. 

 It occupies a splendid amphitheatre ; three lofty mountains 

 describe an arc about it. There is Table Mountain, rising nearly 

 4000 feet above the sea, Lion's Head and Devil's Peak. 

 The city nestles in their friendly shadows, and looks at itself 

 in the sea. There are 30,000 inhabitants, all sorts of people, 

 Dutch, English, Negroes, Malays, Hottentots, everything and 

 nothing. The streets are straight; they cross at right angles; 

 they are threaded by canals, along whose banks there are 

 rows of stately trees. The houses are flat on top ; they have 

 great block stoops in front, where the inmates lounge in the 

 evening. There are fifteen churches. Mohammedanism is 

 there, watching most jealously the intrusion of Christianity, 

 There is a good government, and the sects may quarrel securely. 

 They do it. It is a pity. All hearts ought to be united in 

 saving the heathen. 



After a little while spent resting, Livingstone sailed from 

 Cape Town around to Algoa Bay, and entered the country. It 

 is well to look at it on the map ; it will fix matters in the 

 mind. On Algoa Bay you will see Port Elizabeth. This is a 

 town of 3000 inhabitants, an English settlement, and the 

 principal shipping-point for the eastern division of the colony. 

 It is a door. Civilization goes in and out with its blessings 

 and the returns. There is a return for all service. Civiliza- 

 tion has adventured its wealth in the service of barbarism; 

 enlightened barbarism has always reimbursed civilization. 

 The Church carries the gospel to the heathen at great cost ; the 

 heathen receive it, and strengthen the Church. The sun loses 

 nothing by lengthening its rays. 



Leaving the bay and the easy sailing, Livingstone pressed 

 on to the farthest inland station of the Society. This station is 

 called Kuruman or Lattakoo. It was the headquarters of Dr. 

 Moffat, who had spent many years in that region ; whose 

 book, issued thirty years ago, is full of interest. This hospita- 

 ble home gave a noble daughter to be the companion of the 

 missionary explorer. 



Now fully on the ground, Livingstone cast about him with 

 characteristic deliberation and courage and zeal. It is when 

 zeal is courageous and courage deliberate that great things are 



