716 Livingstone's deepest solicitude. 



cided. He had studied the country, its seasons, climate, soil, 

 vegetation, its birds, animals, and general marketable produce 

 very thoroughly. And he had studied the people ; he knew the 

 evils which oppressed them, and the possibilities which were 

 undeveloped in their rude characters. About these things he 

 could speak positively. And his mind was continually dwelling 

 on whatever seemed encouraging to those enterprises which 

 looked to the moral elevation of the people. He had been com- 

 pelled to surrender his long-cherished scheme of himself estab- 

 lishing a great central mission in the country. The providence 

 which he believed was guiding him had assigned him another 

 task, but it was his delight to mark the way for his brethren 

 whom he hoped would follow him. His mind was much on 

 this matter, and it is certainly most encouraging to those who 

 have shared with him the Christ-like solicitude for the conver- 

 sion of Africa to Christ that all his trying experiences had not 

 diminished either his zeal or hopefulness in that great work. 

 We know that his are not the words of a novice, an unwise en- 

 thusiast, but of a deliberate, well-informed and sincere man. 

 He was anxious that there might be no diminution of missionary 

 effort in Africa, and such notes as the followiug will be helpful 

 and inspiring to those who feel this great work laid on their 

 hearts : 



"Many parts of this interior land present most inviting pros- 

 pects for well-sustained efforts of private benevolence: Karague, 

 for instance, with its intelligent friendly chief Rumainyika 

 (Speke's Rumanika), and Bouganda, with its teeming popula- 

 tion, rain, and friendly chief, who could easily be swayed by an 

 energetic, prudent missionary. The evangelist must not de- 

 pend on foreign support other than an occasional supply of 

 beads and calico; coffee is indigenous, and so is sugar-cane. 

 When detained by ulcerated feet in Manyuema, I made sugar 

 by pounding the cane in the common wooden mortar of the 

 country, squeezing out the juice very hard and boiling it till 

 thick ; the defect it had was a latent acidity, for which I had no 

 lime, and it soon all fermented. I saw sugar afterwards at 

 Ujiji made in the same way, and that kept for months. Wheat 

 and rice are cultivated by the Arabs in all this upland region ; 

 the only thing a missionary needs in order to secure an abundant 



