4 LIVINGSTONE'S LAST JOURNALS. [Chap. I. 



Next day, the 7th, we were received by the Sultan, 

 and through his interpreter, I told him that his friend, the 

 Governor of Bombay, had lately visited the South Mahratta 

 Princes, and had pressed on them the necessity of education ; 

 the world was moving on, and those who neglected to acquire 

 knowledge would soon find that power slipped through their 

 fingers, and that the Bombay Government, in presenting his 

 Highness with a portion of steam power, showed its desire to 

 impart one of the greatest improvements of modern times, 

 not desiring to monopolize power, but hoping to lift up 

 others with themselves, and I wished him to live a hundred 

 years and enjoy all happiness. The idea was borrowed 

 partly from Sir Bartle Frere's addresses, because I thought 

 it would have more weight if he heard a little from that 

 source than if it emanated from myself. He was very anxious 

 that Captain Brebner and his men, in returning to India, 

 should take a passage from him in the Nadir Shah, one of 

 his men-of-war, and though he had already placed his things 

 aboard the Vigilant, to proceed to Seychelles, and thence 

 to Bombay, we persuaded Captain Brebner to accept his 

 Highness's hospitality. He had evidently set his heart on 

 sending them back with suitable honours, and an hour after 

 consent was given to go by the Nadir Shah, he signed an 

 order for the money to fit her out. 



11th February. — One of the foremost subjects that 

 naturally occupied my mind here was the sad loss of the 

 Baron van der Decken, on the Biver Juba, or Aljib. The 

 first intimation of the unfortunate termination of his 

 explorations was the appearance of Lieutenant von Schich 

 at this place, who had left without knowing whether his 

 leader were dead or alive, but an attack had been made on 

 the encampment Avhich had been planned after the steamer 

 struck the rocks and filled, and two of the Europeans were 

 killed. The attacking party came from the direction in 

 which the Baron and Dr. Link went, and three men of note 



