CHAPTER XIX. 



JOURNEYS OP HONOR. 



Regard for Obligations — Busy Preparations— Market Prices at Tete — Singular 

 Measures — Social Turn — Evening Gatherings — Peculiar " Tea-Parties " — Ma- 

 kololo Objections to Leaving Tete — Their Gains and Losses — The Outfit — 

 Journey Begun — Linyanti — Sekeletu — The Mission — Graves — Explanation of 

 Failure — Livingstone's Confidence — Hope Unshaken — Makololo Faithfulness 

 — Attentions — Growing Disaffection — Seaward Again — Tete — The Kongone — 

 The "Pioneer" Arrives — The Rovuma — Return to the Shire — The " University's 

 Mission" — Their Misfortunes — War Prevailing — The Slave-Trade — Lake 

 Nyassa — The Lake Tribes — Shupanga — Death of Mrs. Livingstone. 



It has been observed by those who have become at all familiar 

 with the life of Dr. Livingstone that he considered no difficulty 

 or danger an apology for the neglect of any duty. However 

 charitably he may have regarded the shortcomings of others, he 

 held himself by the most unrelenting laws ; his inherited maxim 

 was engraved on his heart. He knew that the chief who 

 had three years before confided his ivory and his people to him 

 would depend on 'his word, and every consideration forced on 

 him the obligation to honor that confidence by the faithful per- 

 formance of his obligation. There seemed to be no reason why 

 the journey should be longer deferred, and preparations were 

 accordingly begun for a journey of honor from Tete to Linyanti. 

 The " Ma-Robert " was in the last stages of inefficiency ; she had 

 become intolerably leaky, and the den of innumerable rats and 

 roaches, and the best that could be done with her was to resign 

 her to their undisputed dominion. 



In the midst of the busy preparations for this journey there 

 was very little opportunity for much else, and only such events 

 in Tete life as came conspicuously before them received atten- 

 tion. But a man so deeply interested in the condition of the 

 people, and the influences under which they were living, is na- 

 turally interested in the rare specimen of authority which was 

 just then making a little ripple on the surface of the ordinarily 

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