602 GROUNDS OF CONFIDENCE. 



hardly be a land where human hearts fail utterly to answer the 

 touch of God's benevolence in deeds of love, and it seems to be 

 woman's office to preserve longest and truest those primeval 

 impulses which redeem our fallen state from absolute sorrow, 

 and to catch most readily the tenderer inspirations of nature, 

 which restrain our evil passions like the will of Deity. Living- 

 stone would not have been himself if he had failed to bless the 

 motherly heart which opened so promptly to his distress. And 

 we will be less than men, if the veins of goodness that we find 

 in barbarians are lost sight of in our abhorrence of their crimes; 

 less than Christians if the degradation of a people, whose char- 

 acters retain even the faintest hints of a claim to a common 

 brotherhood with us, moves us not to compassion ; and infidels 

 if we despair of witnessing the power of the Cross to elevate any 

 people in whose breasts there are the feeblest responses to the 

 mandates of benevolence. 



The prejudices of the villagers, "which were now becoming 

 so annoying again, were owing to the fact that they were coming 

 on the track of the herd of Ujijians who were mentioned as 

 passing Bambarre some time before. The traders had become 

 the one sorrow of Dr. Livingstone's life, as they were the great 

 curse of the natives. 



Having followed the Chimunemune hills westward, and 

 made a circuit of the bolder Bininango hills in the neighborhood 

 of the river Lira, and finding himself disappointed greatly in 

 his hopes of reaching the Lualaba in that direction, he turned 

 south again with Mohamad and came down seven days' march 

 to Mamohela, where Katomba had his camp, while his emissaries 

 scoured the country in search of ivory. It was now five months 

 since Livingstone reached Bambarre, and already the whole 

 country of Manyuema was swarming with Arab traders and 

 their slave bands, who had rushed like vultures to the carcass 

 on the wonderful reports which had reached them. Already his 

 work seemed to be threatened with inevitable failure ; the 

 atrocities of the bands of slave soldiers and servants, to whom 

 the Arabs committed the work of collecting their booty, had so 

 enraged the Manyuema that it was at the risk of a man's life 

 to attempt the shortest journey except with a strong force of 

 armed men. And while he could not separate himself from 



