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the friends they had longed for. Two officers and a com- 

 pany of soldiers were come from Tete "bringing with them 

 the materials for a civilized breakfast." A good breakfast 

 they soon had, and our Author speaks of it in terms of 

 delightful remembrance — classing its comfort with that 

 of Mr Gabriel's bed on the day he reached Loanda. All 

 fatigue vanished, and the party made their way joyfully over 

 the rough shingles to the Commandant's house at Tete. 

 Thus they had, exactly in four months, completed their 

 fatiguing, and sometimes perilous journey from Linyanti. 



I might here conclude this sketch of the joint labours of 

 our Author and his loyal followers: but there are one or two 

 points in the remaining chapters of the Missionary Travels 

 which give the last touches to his picture of the Africans. 

 From their long journey through the bush, and latterly from 

 want of food, they all arrived at Tete in a ragged and emaciated 

 condition. The Commandant, Tito Augusto d'Araujo Sicard, 

 a Major in the Portuguese Service, received them with a most 

 generous welcome. The 111 Makololo were immediately well 

 fed, clothed, and provided with a lodging in the Residence; 

 and they were then put in a way of building themselves huts 

 which might be their homes during their master's absence in 

 England: and immediately (like the Makololo w r hen they 

 reached Loanda) the honest fellows began to work as free 

 labourers in the best way they could. Major Sicard, hearing 

 of their skill in hunting the elephant, afterwards proposed 

 that they should occasionally join his servants in hunting 

 expeditions — a proposal which they joyfully accepted. It was 

 provided also, by his authority, that proper wages should be 

 secured for them; so that they might not go back to Linyanti 

 empty-handed, whenever their master might return from 

 England to conduct them home. 



Livingstone was received as if he had been a brother — 

 not only by the Commandant, but by every one in authority 

 at Tete and other parts of the Colony. Like his men he was 



