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be a year or more without any news of our undaunted friend. For, if he 

 be alive, they must recollect that he has with him a small band of youthful 

 negroes, none of whom could be spared to traverse the wide regions between 

 Tanganyika and the coast. Until he himself reappears — and how long was 

 he unheard of in his first great traverse of southern Africa — we have, there- 

 fore, little chance of knowing the true result of his mission. But if, as I 

 fervently pray, he should return to us, with what open arms will the country 

 receive him ! and how rejoiced will your President be if he lives to preside 

 over as grand a Livingstone festival as he did when the noble and lion-hearted 

 traveller was about to depart on his second great expedition. 



" The party which I have announced as about to proceed to Africa, to pro- 

 cure accurate information concerning Livingstone, will be commanded by Mr. 

 E. D. Young, who did excellent service in the former Zambesi expedition in 

 the management of the Nyassa river-boat. With him will be associated Mr. 

 Henry Faulkner, formerly a Captain of H.M's. 17th Lancers, a young volun- 

 teer of great promise,* and three acclimatised men, Mr. J. Buckley, an old ship- 

 mate of Mr. Young's, and Mr. John Reed, a mechanic, and the other a seaman. 

 The expedition, I am happy to say, is warmly supported by Her Majesty's 

 Government, and the building of the boat is rapidly progressing under the 

 order of the Board of Admiralty. 



"The boat will be a sailing one ; made of steel, and built in pieces, no one 

 of which will weigh more than forty pounds, so that the portage of the whole 

 by natives past the cataracts of the Shire will be much facilitated. The 

 Government have arranged for the transport of the party to the Cape, with the 

 boat and stores, by the African Mail Steamer, on the 9th of next month (June). 

 Arrived there, one of the cruisers will take them to the Luabo mouth of the 

 Zambesi, where the boat will be put together, and the party, having engaged 

 a crew of negroes, will be left to pursue their noble and adventurous errand 

 by the Zambesi and the Shire, to the head of Lake Nyassa. On account of 

 the heavy seas which prevail on the western or leeward side of that lake, the 

 expedition will keep close to its eastward shore, hitherto unexplored, and it is 

 expected it will reach Kampunda, at the northern extremity, by the end of 

 October, and there ascertain whether our great traveller has perished as 

 reported, or has passed forward in safety through Cazembe to the Lake 

 Tanganyika." 



At a meeting of the Royal Geographical Society on the 3rd of June, Sir 

 Roderick Murchison introduced Mr. Young and Mr. Faulkner to the meeting. 

 In the course of some remarks concerning the expedition of which he had 

 taken the command, Mr. Young said, that "he did not believe the report of 

 Moosa, the Johanna man, who had been under him nearly two years on the 

 Zambesi, and had shown himself to be totally untruthful." 



* Mr. Faulkner went out at his own cost. 



