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' Your master,' say my servants to those of Livingstone, ' is a good man — 

 a very good man ; he does not beat you, for he has a kind heart ; but ours — 

 oh ! he is sharp — hot as fire.' From being hated and thwarted In every pos- 

 sible way by the Arabs and half-castes upon his first arrival at Ujiji, through 

 his uniform kindness and mild pleasant temper, he has now won all hearts. 

 I perceived that unusual respect was paid to him by all. . . . Every 

 Sunday morning he gathers his flock around him, and he has prayers read, 

 not in the stereotyped tone of an English High Church clergyman, which 

 always sounds in my ear insincerely, but in the tone recommended by 

 Archbishop Whately, viz. natural, unaffected, and sincere. Following these, 

 he delivers a short address in the Kisawahili language about what he has been 

 reading from the Bible to them, which is listened to with great attention." 



Dr. Livingstone having expressed his determination not to return to Eng- 

 land until he had completed his task, Mr. Stanley asked him wby he had come 

 so far back without finishing the short task he had to do. 



" Simply," said he, " because I was forced. My men would not budge a 

 step forward. They mutinied, and passed a secret resolution, if I still insisted 

 in going on, to raise a disturbance in the country, and after they had effected 

 it to abandon me ; in which case I should have been killed. It was dangerous to 

 go any further. I had explored six hundred miles of the watershed, had traced 

 all the principal streams which discharged their water into the central line of 

 drainage, and when about starting to explore the last hundred miles the hearts of 

 my people failed, and they set about frustrating me in every possible way. 

 Now having returned seven hundred miles to get a new supply of stores and 

 another escort, I find myself destitute of even the means to live but for a 

 few weeks, and sick in mind and body." 



After the Arabs had left Dr. Livingstone and Mr. Stanley together, the 

 latter says, " Said bin Majid, and a curried chicken, was received from 

 Mohammed bin Sali, and Moeni Kheri sent a dishful of stewed goat meat and 

 rice; and thus presents of food came in succession; and as fast as they 

 were brought we set to. I had a healthy sublime digestion — the exer- 

 cise I had taken had put it in prime order ; but Livingstone — he had been 

 complaining that he had no appetite, that his stomach refused everything 

 but a cup of tea now and then — he ate also — ate like a vigorous, hungry 

 man ; and as he vied with me in demolishing the pancakes, he kept re- 

 peating, 'You have brought me knew life. You have brought me new 

 life.' 



" ' Oh, by jingo I ' I said, ' I have forgotten something. Hasten Selim, 

 and bring that bottle ; you know which ; and bring me the silver goblets. 

 I brought this bottle on purpose for this event, which I hoped, would come to 

 pass, though often it seemed useless to expect it." Selim knew where the 

 bottle was, and he soon returned with it — a bottle of Sillery champagne ; and 



