iv INTRODUCTION. 



which her father made during his travels previous to the 

 time of Mr. Stanley's meeting him. 



The Doctor's custom was always to have metallic note- 

 books in use, in which the day's jottings were recorded. 

 "When time and opportunity served, the larger volume was 

 posted up with scrupulous care. 



It seems, however, that in the last three or four years of 

 his life this excellent rule had to give way to the toils 

 of travel and the exhaustion of most distressing illnesses. 

 Whilst in the Manyuema country he ran out of note-books, 

 ink, and pencils, and had to resort to shifts which at 

 first made it a very debateable point whether the most 

 diligent attempt at deciphering would suceeed after all. 

 Such pocket-books as remained at this period of his travels 

 were utilized to the last inch of paper. In some of them we 

 find lunar observations, the names of rivers, and the heights 

 of hills advancing towards the middle from one end, whilst 

 from the other the itinerary grows day by day, interspersed 

 Avith map routes of the march, botanical notes, and care- 

 fully made drawings. But in the mean time the middle 

 portion of the book was filling up with calculations, private 

 memoranda, words intended for vocabularies, and extracts 

 from books, whilst here and there the stain of a pressed 

 flower causes indistinctness ; yet the thread of the narrative 

 runs throughout. Nothing but his invariable habit of 

 constantly repeating the month and year obviates hopeless 

 confusion. Nor is this all ; for pocket-books gave out 

 at last, and old newspapers, yellow Avith African damp, 

 were scaau together, and his notes Avere written across the 

 type Avith a substitute for ink made from the juice of a tree. 

 To Miss Livingstone and to the Kev. C. A. Alington I am 

 very much indebted for help in the laborious task of 

 deciphering this portion of the Doctor's journals. Their 

 knowledge of his handAvriting, their perseverance, coupled 

 with good eyes and a strong magnifying-glass, at last made 

 their task a complete success. 



