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and take my Makololo back to their chief." Is it wonderful 

 that such a man should be able to walk up and down among 

 savages ? It was the spirit of Christ shining out in everything 

 he did which charmed them and made him a master, while he 

 called them his friends. There was, however, the additional 

 thought and desire that from the Makololo country he might 

 follow the Zambesi to the coast on the east, and possibly find a 

 highway for the gospel to the hidden homes of the millions of 

 poor degraded beings who were passing across the stage of life, 

 who were spending the probation for eternity in helpless ignor- 

 ance and " passing away in darkness." 



Furnished with a number of presents for Sekeletu, including 

 a horse and a complete colonel's uniform, and suits of clothing 

 for all the men why accompanied him to Loanda, and first-rate 

 specimens of the different articles of trade, and two donkeys, 

 which are the more valuable as being proof against the tsetse, 

 which are the bane of the Makololo country, and having re- 

 ceived letters of commendation to the Portuguese authorities in 

 eastern Africa, Dr. Livingstone and his followers left St. Paul 

 de Loanda on the 20th of September, 1854, after a little less 

 than four months, nearly all of which had been spent in painful 

 illness. A fresh supply of ammunition and beads, with a good 

 stock of cloth, was a precaution quite in place, and a musket 

 apiece for his men enabled them to present a more formidable 

 display, and bid a more serious defiance if it should be necessary 

 in passing the pugnacious tribes beyond the Quango. The 

 Makololo had accumulated a considerable amount of treasures, 

 which made it necessary to increase the party by the addition 

 of twenty carriers, who were supplied by the Bishop of Angola. 



The party had the company of Mr. Gabriel as far as Icollo i 

 Bengo, where they visited a large sugar refinery belonging to 

 Donna Anna da Sousa, a lady owner of vast numbers of slaves, 

 who seemed to be trying to furnish an illustration of how little 

 may be done by a multitude nominally at work. 



They passed along some distance near the river Senza. Of 

 this region Livingstone says : " The whole of this part of the 

 country is composed of marly tufa, containing the same kind of 

 shells as those at present alive in the seas. As we advanced 

 eastward and ascended the higher lands, we found eruptive trap, 



