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The Missionary Travels, sold to the extent of 30,000 copies, and in consequence 

 returned him a large sum of money. While on the Zambesi, and when the 

 second steamer, the Pioneer, sent out to him proved a failure, he ordered the 

 Lady Nyassa at his own expense, her cost being £6,000. She was lying at 

 Bombay, and would be of no use in the contemplated journey at all. The 

 sale of his second book, The Zambesi and its Tributaries, up to the time of which 

 we are writing, had not much exceeded 3,000 copies, so that if he left for 

 Africa and was lost to sight for several years, the future of his motherless 

 children could not fail to be a source of anxiety to him. 



The generous offer of Sir Roderick Murchison, his old and tried friend, 

 put him at his ease as to the future welfare of his family, and he began at 

 once, with his usual promptitude and energy, to prepare for his departure upon 

 what was to be his last expedition. Lord John Russell (now Earl Russell) 

 and then Prime Minister, sent Mr. Hayward, Q.C., to him, to sound him as to 

 what he would like the Government to do for him. No doubt his lordship 

 wished to know what honour or reward he wished for himself. Livingstone, 

 quite unmindful of himself, said, " If you stop the Portuguese Slave Trade, 

 you will gratify me beyond measure." A second time Mr. Hayward asked 

 him if anything could be done for himself, and his answer was, "No, he 

 could not think of anything." Many times when he was waiting in the heart 

 of Africa for succour from the coast, the thought came into his mind that he 

 had then lost an opportunity of providing for his children. 



Two thousand pounds were subscribed for the expedition. Mr. James 

 Young, the well-known paraffin oil manufacturer, and a friend of Living- 

 stone's at College, furnished £1,000, and promised that whenever he lacked 

 funds he would supply him to any amount. The Government gave £500, 

 and the Royal Geographical Society subscribed a like sum. As Dr. Living- 

 stone, when he reached Bombay, sold the Lady Nyassa steamer, and placed 

 the sum received for her (£2,000) in bank, to be drawn upon by him for the 

 expenses of the expedition, he actually subscribed one-half the entire sum he 

 believed he had at his disposal at starting. Months after he had passed into 

 the interior of Africa, the banker with whom he had deposited the money 

 became bankrupt, and the whole sum was totally lost. 



Lord John Russell happily connected the expedition with the public 

 service by renewing Dr. Livingstone's appointment as H.M. Consul to the 

 tribes in the interior of Africa, thus giving to his mission a semi-official 

 character. 



Dr. Livingstone left England to set out on his last expedition on the 14th 

 of August, and was accompanied to Paris by his eldest daughter, Agnes. 

 From Paris he went to Bombay, where, having completed his arrangements, 

 he proceeded to Zanzibar, accompanied by the two African boys (Chumah and 

 Wekotani) he had left with Dr. Wilson, a number of men from the Johanna 

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