CHAPTEE XX. 



THE BEGINNING OF THE END. 



Zambesi Expedition Unsatisfactory — Zanzibar — Trade from Zanzibar — The 

 Outfit — Eovuma Bay — Kindany — The Makonde — Remarkable Vegetation — 

 Cutting Eight Valiantly — Rage for Doctorship — Mohammedan Influence — 

 Lying Guides — Along the Rovuma — Troubles with Followers — Gum-Copal 

 Tree — Extravagant Tattooing — Top of the Fashion — At Nyomano— The Slave- 

 Trade — The Makoa — A Woman Rescued — Horrors of the Trade in Slaves — 

 Currency for Africa — Extracts from Journal — A Deserted Village — A Model 

 Town of Africa. 



Nobody was thoroughly satisfied with the Zambesi expedi- 

 tion. It had cost considerable sums of money, much precious 

 time had been consumed, and some very valuable lives had been 

 sacrificed, while comparatively little progress had been made in 

 finding out the country, the anticipations of advantageous com- 

 mercial relations greatly disappointed, and missionary enthu- 

 siasm discouraged. There were however some important dis- 

 coveries made : the fruitfulness of the soil was confirmed, the 

 mineral resources much more accurately ascertained, and the 

 real enemy of African civilization brought more distinctly into 

 view. There was certainly no want of patient and heroic labor, 

 brave endurance and wise counsel. In none of the records of 

 his noble life have we been more impressed with the real great- 

 ness of David Livingstone than in reviewing the journals of the 

 wearying, unsatisfactory years of this expedition. The difficul- 

 ties with which he contended were only recognized by him 

 when human energy could do no more, and even then he sus- 

 pended his labors only in obedience to the authority which he 

 represented. 



The little time which he allowed himself at home was hardly 

 a season of rest. Besides the preparation of his " Zambesi Ex- 

 pedition " for the press, he felt constrained to do all in his power 

 in those few months to revive the popular interest in the Afri- 



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