TO 



THE RIGHT HON. LORD PALMERSTON, 



K.G., G.C.B. 



My Lord, 



I beg leave to dedicate this Volume to your 

 Lordship, as a tribute justly due to the great Statesman who 

 has ever had at heart the amelioration of the African race ; 

 and as a token of admiration of the beneficial effects of 

 that jwlicy winch he has so long laboured to establish on the 

 West Coast of Africa ; and which, in improving that region, 

 has most forcibly shown the need of some similar system on 

 the opposite side of the Continent. 



DAVID LIVINGSTONE. 



