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arrived in England at this date.* It will be observed that 

 the outline of Lake Nyassa differs from that on any pub- 

 lished map : it has been drawn from the original ex- 

 ploratory survey of its southern shores made by Dr. 

 Livingstone in 1861-3. For some reason this original plan 

 was not adhered to by a former draughtsman, but the Lake 

 has here been restored to a more accurate bearing and 

 position. 



How often shall we see in the pages of this concluding 

 chapter of his life, that unwavering determination which 

 was pre-eminently the great characteristic of David Living- 

 stone ! 



Naturally endowed with unusual endurance, able to con- 

 centrate faculties of no ordinary kind upon whatever he 

 took in hand, and with a dread of exaggeration which at 

 times almost militated against the importance of some of his 

 greatest discoveries, it may be doubted if ever Geographer 

 went forth strengthened with so much true power. Let 

 us add to these a sincere trust that slavery, the " great 

 open sore of the world," as he called it, might under God's 

 good guidance receive healing at his hands ; a fervent hope 

 that others would follow him after he had removed those 

 difficulties which are comprised in a profound ignorance of 

 the physical features of a new country, and we have the 

 inarching orders of him who left us in August 1865 never 

 to return alive. 



Privileged to enjoy his near personal friendship for a 

 considerable period in Africa, and also at home, it has been 

 easy to trace — more especially from correspondence with 

 him of late years — that Livingstone wanted just some such 



* In February last this sjction of the map (as we suppose), together 

 with some of the Doctor's papers, was sent off from Ujiji by Lieutenant 

 Cameron. Nothing, however, had arrived on the 22nd September at 

 Zanzibar, and H.M. Consul, Captain Prideaux, entertained serious doubts 

 at that time whether they would ever come to band. All Livingstone'^ 

 journals were saved through other instrumentality, as I have shown. 



