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travellers, for a few months or for one or two years, but for many successive 

 years. During this long period he continued his researches with unabated 

 zeal ; without being appalled by danger, or disheartened by the privations to 

 which he was subjected, or the difficulties which he had to encounter ; not the 

 least of these being, repeated and severe attacks of bodily illness. (Cheers.) 



" But Dr. Livingstone is also presented to us under another aspect, as a 

 Christian missionary, using his endeavours to extend the advantages of 

 civilization, not after the fashion of the Roman conquerors of Caul and 

 Britain, by transplanting, at the cost of rapine and bloodshed, the arts and 

 sciences of an older and more civilised people into the conquered country, 

 but by communicating knowledge, promoting education, and inculcating the 

 principles of a religion which enjoins the exercise of kindness, charity, and 

 justice, which tells us that we are to forgive our enemies, and do unto others 

 as we would that they should do unto us. 



" There are others in Africa engaged in the same pursuits, who, however 

 occupied with their duties as missionaries, have found leisure from time to 

 time to transmit to Europe important information on other subjects, and to 

 whom science is much indebted ; and I have to propose to you as a toast — 

 ' The Members of the Missionary Societies who by their Christian labours 

 have so much enlarged our acquaintance with Africa and its inhabitants.' " 

 (Cheers.) 



The Bishop of Oxford, in proposing the health of Sir Roderick Murchison, 

 said : — 



" In proposing, therefore, gentlemen, to you the health of our chairman, 

 I know that I have with me the universal concurrence of all the members of 

 this great gathering. (Cheers.) In truth, sir, for reasons which connect 

 themselves immediately with our important object to-night, you are the fittest 

 man amongst us to occupy that post. For you as a most distinguished 

 geologist and geographer, and as the head of the Royal Geographical Society, 

 have done more by far than any who have not carefully examined the whole 

 matter can conceive, both to support our enterprising friend Dr. Livingstone 

 during his arduous undertakings, and finally to crown them with success. 

 (Cheers.) 



" Gentlemen, I need but draw your attention for a single moment to the 

 pregnant words in which Dr. Livingstone has dedicated his recent volume to 

 our chairman in order to convince you of this. Weigh well these words, ' as 

 a token of gratitude for the kind interest he has always taken in the author's 

 pursuits and welfare ; ' and then remember the simple-hearted, truth-speaking 

 writer from whose pen they flowed, and you will be more able to estimate 

 what were really our chairman's services in this great undertaking. (Cheers.) 



" Truly it does need the combination of different men and different 

 faculties before any such vast undertaking as this can be achieved. There 



