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save Dr. Livingstone, who opposed it on the ground that it 

 would be better for the Bishop to wait, and see the effect 

 of the check the slave-hunters had just experienced. The 

 Ajawa were evidently goaded on by Portuguese agents from 

 Tette, and there was no bond of union among the Man- 

 ganja on which to work. It was possible that the Ajawa 

 might be persuaded to something better, though, from having 

 long been in the habit of slaving for the Quillimane market, 

 it was not very probable. But the Manganja could easily be 

 overcome piecemeal by any enemy; old feuds made them 

 glad to see calamities befall their next neighbours. We 

 counselled them to unite against the common enemies of 

 their country, and added distinctly that we English would on 

 no account enter into their quarrels. On the Bishop inquir- 

 ing whether, in the event of the Manganja again asking aid 

 against the Ajawa, it would be his duty to accede to their 

 request, — " No," replied Dr. Livingstone, " you will be op- 

 pressed by their importunities, but do not interfere in native 

 quarrels." This advice the good man honourably mentions 

 in his journal. We have been rather minute in relating what 

 occurred during the few days of our connexion with the 

 Mission of the English Universities, on the hills, because, 

 the recorded advice having been discarded, blame was thrown 

 on Dr. Livingstone's shoulders, as if the Missionaries had no 

 individual responsibility for their subsequent conduct. This, 

 unquestionably, good Bishop Mackenzie had too much manli- 

 ness to have allowed. The connexion of the members of the 

 Zambesi Expedition, with the acts of the Bishop's Mission, 

 now ceased, for we returned to the ship and prepared for our 

 journey to Lake Nyassa. We cheerfully, if necessary, will 

 bear all responsibility up to this point ; and if the Bishop 

 afterwards made mistakes in certain collisions with the 

 slavers, he had the votes of all his party with him, and 



