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establishing the soul in quietness, and filling the world with 

 love, answers the inaudible prayer of human misery, whic^ 

 ascends to God from every land, in every dialect, expressed in 

 every custom and condition. How beautiful and touching is 

 the ready yielding of heathen prejudice to this heavenly prom- 

 ise ! How encouraging it is to see the eye of ignorance and 

 barbarity sparkling with the hope of Christ's glorious reign, 

 even before they know the Sovereign ! 



The characteristic negro tendency to worship distinguishes 

 the tribes of the Kafue, and the national faith in charms enters 

 into all they do. The universal fear of the white man which 

 distinguishes the tribes remote from European settlements pre- 

 vailed here also ; and although it is the sunny slope of the 

 range constituting the eastern wall of the continent, not even 

 the half-caste had ever penetrated so far. The white man's 

 goods, though, had already found their way, and the followers 

 of Livingstone began to find a market for their ornaments and 

 beads in cotton cloth. 



The Babisa traders take the place of the Mambari, who enter 

 the interior from the western coast, and barter various articles 

 for ivory and slaves. Villages almost innumerable, according 

 to African custom, are hid away among the hills, whose shad- 

 ows offer the security of seclusion to the trembling people. The 

 general conformation and nature of the rocks is strikingly like 

 the western slope ; but the wonderful valley of the Quango is 

 wanting, although its absence is fully atoned for by the splendid 

 ranges of cloud-capped mountains, which, in the eyes of the fol- 

 lowers of Livingstone, accustomed to no greater altitudes than 

 their marvellous ant-hills, seemed like the pillars of the heavens. 

 There are five of these ranges quite distinct and parallel, and 

 between them beautiful hills covered with trees. " On the tops 

 of these," says Livingstone, " we have beautiful white quartz 

 rocks, and some have a capping of dolomite. On the west of 

 the second range we have great masses of kyanite or disthene, 

 and on the flanks of the third and fourth a great deal of specular 

 iron ore which is magnetic, and rounded pieces of black iron 

 ore, also strongly magnetic, and containing a very large per- 

 centage of the metal. The sides of these ranges are generally 

 very precipitous, and there are rivulets between which are not 



