1866.] A SORROW IN AMBUSH. 56 



rolled, and afterwards about 15 lbs. of tlie tea, thereby 

 ■diminishing our stock to 5 lbs. 



[Dr. Livingstone's short stay in England in 1864r-5 was 

 mainly taken up with compiling an account of his travels 

 on the Zambesi and Shire : during this time his mother 

 expired in Scotland at a good old age. When he went back 

 to Africa he took with him, as part of his very scanty 

 travelling equipment, a number of letters which he received 

 from friends at different times in England, and he very often 

 quoted them when he had an opportunity of sending letters 

 home. We come to an entry at this time which shows that 

 an these reminiscences he had not thus preserved an unmixed 

 pleasure. He says : — ] 



I lighted on a telegram to-day : — 



" Your mother died at noon on the 18th June." 

 This was in 1865 : it affected me not a little. 



