CHAPTER IX. 



THE NEW EXPEDITION. 



Sekeletu's Kindness — Explanation of it — Providence in his Work — November 

 3, 1855 — Terrible Storm — Two Hundred Men in Line — The Niagara of Africa 

 — Victoria Falls — Rainbow and Superstition — The Batoka — A Network of 

 Rivers — The Explanation — Traditions — The First White Man — Batoka Chiefs 

 — Batoka Rebels — The Eastern Ridge — Longing for Quiet — Batoka^ Gener- 

 osity — A Reception — Livingstone's Courage — Power of the Gospel — Awe of 

 White Men — An Incident — Missionary Influence— Animals — Buffalo Bird — 

 Rhinoceros Bird — Soldier Ants — White Ants — An Elephant Hunt — Elephant's 

 Character — Indian and African Compared — Down the Losito. 



It is interesting to observe the readiness with which the 

 Makololo put themselves again at the service of Dr. Living- 

 stone in his efforts to bring the tribes into communication with 

 the white people and open the heart of Africa to the sympathies 

 of the Christian world. The wonderful life-work of this great 

 man, prosecuted so long and faithfully in Africa, presents a 

 pleasing contrast with many of tho enterprises of explorers, 

 which have been attended with great expense and the smallest 

 results. "With the inconsiderable salary of a missionary, Liv- 

 ingstone had traversed already many of the obscurest wilds, 

 awaking new aspirations in various tribes hitherto unknown, 

 softening the prejudices of different sections, and encouraging a 

 spirit of fraternity among those petty sovereignties which prom- 

 ised to ripen into a system of kindly intercourse that may 

 eventually substitute confidence for distrust and honest trade 

 for plunder and Avar. And now he sets forth on as long a 

 journey, so abundantly provided for and so well escorted that 

 he appears more like the servant of a king than a lonely toiler, 

 with no commission but his love for God and men, and no 

 backing but a character whose correctness commanded confidence. 

 It was because the heathen honored the man and confided in 

 his love, that they adopted him and his work, and because he 

 found those heathen hearts so warm and liberal, he felt that 

 he could endure all things for their good and immolate himself 

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