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they would pass in safety. He could only obtain the use of 

 two canoes for the purpose of crossing the stream, and it seemed 

 that the Mburuma would at last accomplish his object and get 

 the party divided. He confesses that he felt some turmoil of 

 spirit in the evening at the prospect of having all his efforts 

 for the welfare of this great region and its teeming population 

 knocked on the head by savages to-morrow, who might be said 

 to " know not what they do." It seemed such a pity that the 

 important fact of the .existence of the two healthy ridges which 

 he had discovered should not become known in Christendom, 

 for a confirmation would thereby have been given to the idea 

 that Africa is not open to the gospel. But he read that Jesus 

 said, " All power is given unto me in heaven and on earth ; go 



ye, therefore, and teach all nations and lo, I am with 



you alway, even unto the end of the world" He took this as his 

 word of honor, and then went out to take observations for lati- 

 tude and longitude, which he estimated, from the ruins of a 

 stone church which he found just at the confluence of the Loangwa 

 with the Zambesi, and found to be: latitude, 15° 37' 22" S., 

 longitude, 30° 32' E. 



When the morning came there were numbers of men armed, 

 who stood by while the goods and load after load of the men 

 were being sent across. ^Livingstone himself was left to the last 

 boat, but, concealing whatever fear he may have felt, he be- 

 guiled the time pleasantly exhibiting various articles to his sup- 

 posed enemies as pleasantly as he could have done to his own 

 Makololo, and, finally, when his time came to enter the boat, 

 he " thanked them for their kindness," and, wishing them peace, 

 passed over unmolested, feeling in his heart exceedingly grati- 

 fied to God for preserving him and preserving peace, which he 

 longed to bestow on Africa. 



The party were now entering the outskirts of Portuguese en- 

 terprise, extending from their colony on the east coast. The 

 same indications of a mistaken policy which were so abundant 

 in Angola were to be seen here also, and here, as there, they 

 have been rather the enemies than the helpers of the natives at 

 the junction of the Loangwa and Zambesi. The town of Zumbo 

 contains a number of ruins of stone houses. "They all faced 

 the river, and were high enough up the flanks of the hill Maz- 



