xxii LIFE OF DR LIVINGSTONE. 



in almost every department of social, national, intellectual, 

 moral and religious progress. No one can say that such is 

 not the case in South Central Africa. An examination of the 

 route delineated on the map will shew that Dr Livingstone 

 lias travelled in that country almost eleven thousand miles. 

 Under what circumstances ? read his book and you will 

 see. Now prostrate with fever, overcome with fatigue, beset 

 with difficulties, and tried by untoward events. One day, 

 untutored companions have to be managed, savage tribes 

 propitiated ; and another, trackless forests must be threaded, 

 bridgeless rivers, swamps and prairie lands crossed, and 

 dangers on all hands overcome. Nearly every day subsist- 

 ence had to be obtained by hunting, or received as presents 

 from the natives. His most usual way of travelling was in a 

 waggon, walking, in canoes, or on ox-back. The ox Sinbad is 

 rather a celebrity in the book : he carried our traveller all the 

 way from Linyanti to Loanda, and back again. Women were 

 generally kind. The Bushmen were cordial, but occasionally 

 somewhat cold ; as well as the Bechuanas. He received 

 unkindness and insolence from the Boers; unvarying hos- 

 pitality and confidence among the Makololo ; general kindness 

 among the Balonda ; and decided hostility among the slave- 

 dealing tribes, and along the slave-dealers' trail. 



Professor Sedgwick's letter gives a complete account of the 

 two great journeys. The book of travels alone gives the detail 

 of these. It is a book which, for its literary merit, new and 

 valuable information, candour, uprightness, and Christian spirit, 

 must commend itself and be commended. Therein the inci- 

 dents of the first journey, from 1840 — 52, are to be found in 

 pp. 1 — 93; and those of the second from 1854 — 6, from p. 94 



