vi PEEFACE. 



1864. Mr. and Mrs. Webb, my rnuch-loved friends, wrote 

 to Bombay inviting me, in the event of my coming to Eng- 

 land, to make Newstead Abbey my headquarters, and on 

 my arrival renewed their invitation : and though, when 

 I accepted it, I had no intention of remaining so long 

 with my kind-hearted generous friends, I stayed with them 

 until April, 1865, and under their roof transcribed from my 

 own and my brother's journal the whole of this present book. 

 It is with heartfelt gratitude I would record their unwearied 

 kindness. My acquaintance with Mr. Webb began in Africa, 

 where he was a daring and successful hunter, and his con- 

 tinued friendship is most valuable, because he has seen 

 missionary work, and he would not accord his respect and 

 esteem to me had he not believed that I, and my brethren 

 also, were to be looked on as honest men earnestly trying 

 to do our duty. 



The Government have supported the proposal of the Eoyal 

 Geographical Society made by my friend Sir Koderick Mur- 

 chison, and have united with that body to aid me in another 

 attempt to open Africa to civilizing influences, and a valued 

 private friend has given a thousand pounds for the same object. 

 I propose to go inland, north of the territory which the Por- 

 tuguese in Europe claim, and endeavour to commence that 

 system on the East which has been so eminently successful 

 on the West Coast ; a system combining the repressive efforts 

 of H.M. cruisers with lawful trade and Christian Missions — 

 the moral and material results of which have been so grati- 

 fying. I hope to ascend the Rovuma, or some other river 

 North of Cape Delgado, and, in addition to my other work, 

 shall strive, by passing along the Northern end of Lake 

 Nyassa and round the Southern end of Lake Tanganyika, to 

 ascertain the watershed of that part of Africa. In so doing, 

 I have no wish to unsettle what with so much toil and danger 



