TO 



THE EIGHT HON. LORD PALMEBSTON, 



K.G., G.C.B. 



My Lord, 



I beg leave to dedicate this Volume to 

 your Lordship, as a tribute justly due to the great 

 Statesman who has ever had at heart the amelioration 

 of the African race; and as a token of admiration of 

 the beneficial effects of that policy which he has so 

 long laboured to establish on the West Coast of Africa ; 

 and which, in improving that region, has most forcibly 

 shown the need of some similar system on the opposite 

 side of the Continent. 



DAVID LIVINGSTONE. 



