262 LIFE OF DA VID LIVINGSTONE, LL.D. 



benefits of Christianity which have been bestowed upon ourselves. (Cheers.) 

 Let us not make the same mistake in Africa that we have made in India 

 (renewed cheering), but let us take to that country our Christianity with us. 

 (Cheers.) 



" I confess that I am not sanguine enough to hope for any speedy result 

 from this expedition, but I am sanguine as to its ultimate result. (Cheers.) 

 I feel convinced that if we can establish a system of free labour in Africa, it 

 will have a most decided influence upon slavery throughout the world. (Loud 

 cheers.) Success, however, under Providence, depends upon us as Englishmen. 

 I look upon Englishmen as perhaps the most freedom-loving people in the 

 world, and I think that the kindly feeling which has been displayed towards 

 me since my return to my native land has arisen from the belief that my 

 efforts might at some future time tend to put an end to the odious traffic in 

 slaves. (Loud cheers.) England has, unfortunately, been compelled to 

 obtain cotton and other raw material from slave States (cheers), and has thus 

 been the mainstay and support of slavery in America. Surely, then, it follows 

 that if we can succeed in obtaining the raw material from other sources than 

 from the slave States of America, we would strike a heavy blow at the system 

 of slavery itself. (Loud cheers.) 



"I do not wish, any more than my friend Sir Roderick, to arouse 

 expectations in connexion with this expedition which may never be realised, 

 but what I want to do is to get in the thin end of the wedge (cheers), and 

 then leave it to be driven home by English energy and English spirit. (Loud 

 cheers.) 



" I cannot express to you in adequate language the sense which I 

 entertain of the kindness which I have received since my return to this 

 country, but I can assure you that I shall ever retain a grateful recollection of 

 the way you have received me on the eve of my departure from my native 

 land. (Cheers.) 



" Reference has been made in language most kind to Mrs. Livingstone. 

 (Cheers.) Now, it is scarcely fair to ask a man to praise his own wife 

 (laughter), but I can only say that when I left her at the Cape, telling her 

 that I should return in two years, and when it happened that I was absent 

 four years and a half, I supposed that I should appear before her with a 

 damaged character. (Laughter.) I was, however, forgiven. (Laughter and 

 cheering.) My wife, who has always been the main spoke in my wheel, will 

 accompany me in this expedition, and will be most useful to me. She is 

 familiar with the languages of South Africa, she is able to work, she is willing 

 to endure, and she well knows that in that country one must put one's hand 

 to everything. In the country to which I am about to proceed she knows 

 that at the missionary's station the wife must be the maid-of-all-work within, 

 while the husband must be the jack-of-all-trades without, and glad am I 



