530 DIFFERENT MOTIVES. 



those who decline to confess themselves sinners above others 

 because they owned slaves. God grant that Americans may 

 speedily outgrow all remaining taint of tyranny which shows 

 itself in hating a man because of his creed, and stand before 

 the world in fact, as they do in name, a brotherhood on the 

 matchless basis of unfettered conscience, the keystone of the 

 structure which shelters them. 



When at last the way was open, whatever may have been his 

 moralizing, Dr. Livingstone was full of joy. He set out 

 attended by the whole party of Arabs — they with hearts set on 

 the ivory and slaves in which they saw their longed-for wealth 

 and self-indulgence ; he to find the solution, if possible, of the 

 problem which had engaged mankind for so many centuries, to 

 settle, if possible, questions of vast importance to the continent, 

 to mark out a path for civilization, to set up the standard of 

 Christ in the centre of that most needing land. How strangely 

 the motives of these men contrasted ! What was the difference ? 

 Can color or education explain it ? Was there not a deeper 

 difference than can be found in complexion, or made by teach- 

 ings ? Can it be explained except by the religion of Jesus ? 



The long line went winding away from the village of Nsama, 

 first northward, crossing several ridges and valleys, fording the 

 Chisera and the Kamosenga rivers, to the village of Karungu, 

 where they arrived on the 30th. The journey had been at- 

 tended with only the usual incidents of walking and waiting, 

 giving and receiving presents with the people. The people all 

 along were the subjects of Nsama, though obeying local chiefs ; 

 they had been kind and generous. The scenery varied ; there 

 had been splendid mountain views, lovely glens, and broad 

 plains, birds, and vast herds of the animals which belong to the 

 land. The terror of guns, which the people had conceived from 

 the experience of Nsama, was the principal inconvenience ; this, 

 in some instances, made intercourse with the chiefs almost im- 

 possible. An extract, in the traveller's own language, will illus- 

 trate, more perfectly than we can explain, the annoyances of the 

 journey : 



"Karungu was very much afraid of us; he kept every 

 one out of his stockade at first, but during the time the 

 Arabs sent forward to try and conciliate other chiefs he 



