CHAPTER VIII. 



Dr. Livingstone's Letters Home Detailing his Discoveries. — Receives the Royal 

 Geographical Society^ s Gold Medal for the Year. — The Province of Angola, £fc. 



THE Missionary Magazine for October, 1855, was able to give the following 

 brief account of Dr. Livingstone's great journey : — 



" Our enterprising missionary has, since the early part of 1853, been 

 engaged on his fourth tour of exploration in the interior of Africa. Arriving 

 at the town of the Chief Sekeletu, on the river Linyanti, in September of that 

 year he proceeded in a north- westerly direction, in company with a detachment 

 of the followers of that chief, in search of an outlet on the west coast, and, after 

 surmounting great diffi culties and hardships, he at length reached St. Paul de 

 Loanda at the end of May, 1854. 



" In consequence of the loss of some of Dr. Livingstone's letters, by the 

 wreck of the vessel in which they were despatched, the detailed account of his 

 extended journey has not yet come to hand ; but our readers will be gratified 

 by the notice of its more recent incidents embodied in the subjoined extracts 

 from his last communication. 



" Under date, Cassange, Angola, West Africa, 14th January, ult., 

 Dr. Livingstone writes : — 



"As soon as I was sufficiently recovered from the severe indisposition 

 which kept me prostrate for a long time after my arrival at Loanda, I wrote 

 you a full account of the journey, concerning which you have probably received 

 information from other sources. I regretted that you had not received the 

 earliest intelligence directly from my own hand, and that regret was increased on 

 learning a few days ago at Punjo Andonjo, that all my letters and maps had 

 been lost in the wreck of the ' Forerunner' off Madeira. 



" Having left the river Zambesi or Leeambye in latitude 1411' S., and 

 longitude 23 40' E., we ascended the Leeba until we had the country at Lobale 

 on our left, and Loanda on our right. We then left the canoes and travelled 

 N.N.W. on oxback till we reached the latitude of this place, viz., 9°37', whence 

 proceeding westwards we at last reached Loanda. 



" In passing through a part of Loanda we found the people exceedingly 

 kind, and generally anxious that we should succeed in opening up a new road 

 to the coast ; they belong to the negro race and are more superstitious than any 

 of the southern tribes ; they would not eat with us, and near every village we 



