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you know, gentlemen, that my geographical friends and myself have done 

 our best to honour the great traveller and good missionary. (Cheers.) 



" At any public meeting held a year and a half ago, it would have been 

 necessary to dwell upon the merits of Livingstone ; but now his name has 

 become a household word among my countrymen, and no efforts of mine can 

 raise hfm higher in that esteem which he has won for himself, and especially 

 I rejoice to say by the sale of 30,000 copies of the work issued by the flourish- 

 ing firm of Murray, Livingstone, and Co. (laughter), and by which he has 

 secured independence for himself, and a provision for his wife and family. 

 (Cheers.) 



" My eminent friend has not only made us thoroughly well acquainted 

 with the character and disposition of the inhabitants and the nature of the 

 animals and plants of the interior of Africa, but has realised that which no 

 missionary has ever accomplished before ; since with consummate talent, 

 perseverence, and labour he has laid down the longitude as well as latitude of 

 places hitherto unknown to us, and has enriched every department of know- 

 ledge by his valuable and original discoveries. These are great claims upon 

 the admiration of men of science ; but, great as they are, they fall far short 

 of others which attach to the name of the missionary who, by his fidelity to 

 his word, by his conscientious regard for his engagements, won the affections 

 of the natives of Africa by the example which he set before them in his treat- 

 ment of the poor people who followed him in his arduous researches through 

 that great continent. (Loud cheers.) 



" Sitting by my side (laying his hand on Dr. Livingstone's shoulder) is 

 the man who, knowing what he had to encounter — who having twenty or 

 thirty times struggled with the fever of Africa — who, knowing when he 

 reached the western coast, at St. Paul de Loanda, that a ship was ready to 

 carry him to his native land, where his wife and children were anxiously 

 awaiting his arrival, true to his plighted word, threw these considerations, 

 which would have influenced an ordinary man, to the winds, and reconducted 

 those poor natives who had accompanied him through the heart of the country 

 back to their homes ! — thus by his noble and courageous conduct leaving for 

 himself in that country a glorious name, and proving to the people of Africa 

 what an English Christian is. (Loud and long continued cheering.) 



" So much for the character of the man of whom, as a Scotchman, I am 

 justly proud ; and now a few words with regard to his present expedition, of 

 which I may say that no enterprise could have been better organized than it 

 has been, under the recommendation of my distinguished friend, aided by the 

 countenance and hearty co-operation of Lord Clarendon, and the very 

 judicious arrangements of Captain Washington, the Hydrographer of the 

 Admiralty, on whom fortunately has fallen the chief labour of its organization. 

 (Loud cheers.) The naval officer of the expedition is Commander Bedingfeld, 



