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ZAMBESI AND ITS TEIEUTAPJES. 



INTEODUCTION. 



Objects of the Expedition — Personal Interest shown by Naval 

 Authorities — Members of the Zambesi Expedition. 



When first I determined on publishing the narrative of 

 my "Missionary Travels," I had a great misgiving as 

 to whether the criticism my endeavours might provoke 

 would be friendly or the reverse, more particularly as 

 I felt that I had then been so long a sojourner in the 

 wilderness, as to be quite a stranger to the British public. 

 But I am now in this, my second essay at authorship, 

 cheered by the conviction that very many readers, who 

 are personally unknown to me, will receive this narrative 

 with the kindly consideration and allowances of friends ; 

 and that many more, under the genial influences of an 

 innate love of liberty, and of a desire to see the same 

 social and religious blessings they themselves enjoy, dis- 

 seminated throughout the world, will sympathize with me 

 in the efforts by which I have striven, however imper- 

 fectly, to elevate the position and character of our fellow- 

 men in Africa. This knowledge makes me doubly anxious 

 to render my narrative acceptable to all my readers ; but, 



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