THE RENDEZVOUS APPOINTED. Gil 



precious about this remarkable expedition. God knew exactly 

 when the extremity would be. While he allowed Dr. Living- 

 stone to go on wandering about in Manyuema, he allowed Mr. 

 Stanley to travel leisurely toward the continent of Africa. And 

 when the hour came, the hour of crushing disappointment, and 

 Dr. Livingstone turned toward Ujiji, sick at heart, utterly per- 

 plexed, the deliverer, an utter stranger, of another nation than 

 he, was easy marching-distance of the divinely appointed ren- 

 dezvous. These two men — one a man broken down in health, 

 bearing on his shoulders the weight of many years of severe 

 hardships, and on his heart a heavier weight of anxieties and 

 sympathy for the degraded, the other a young man borne up 

 by the elasticity of youth, and lifeful in the freshness of his 

 noble work — will be approaching each other, with what adven- 

 tures we shall see hereafter. 



