348 BISHOP MACKENZIE. Chap. XVIII. 



CHAPTEE XVIII. 



Arrival of Pioneer — Mission Staff taken to Johanna — Bishop Mackenzie joins 

 the Expedition up the Rovuma — Fall of water — Return to Comoro — 

 Johanna — Ascent of the Shire — Pioneer draws too much water — Charles 

 Livingstone labours to stimulate cotton culture — Want of agents on East 

 Coast compared to West Coast — England's labours there — Their value — 

 Expedition eminently successful — Turning-point of success — Slaves rescued 

 — The Bishop accepts the Chief's invitation to Magomero — Visit to the 

 Ajawa, well-meant, ill-taken — Stand at bay — Retreat of the Ajawa — 

 Bishop Mackenzie's Mission at Magomero — Extent of Dr. Livingstone's re- 

 sponsibility — Return to the ship. 



On the 31st January, 1861, our new ship, " The Pioneer," 

 arrived from England, and anchored outside the bar ; but the 

 weather was stormy, and she did not venture in till the 4th 

 of February. 



Two of H.M. cruisers came at the same time, bringing 

 Bishop Mackenzie, and the Oxford and Cambridge Mission to 

 the tribes of the Shire and Lake Nyassa. The Mission con- 

 sisted of six Englishmen, and five coloured men from the Cape. 

 It was a puzzle to know what to do with so many men. The 

 estimable Bishop, anxious to commence his work without delay, 

 wished the Pioneer to carry the Mission up the Shire, as 

 far as Chibisa's, and there leave them. But there were 

 grave objections to this. The Pioneer was under orders to 

 explore the Bovuina, as the Portuguese Government had re- 

 fused to open the Zambesi to the ships of other nations, and 

 their officials were very effectually pursuing a system, which, 

 by abstracting the labour, was rendering the country of no 

 value either to foreigners or to themselves. She was already 

 two months behind her time, and the rainy season was half over. 

 Then, if the party were taken to Chibisa's, the Mission would be 



