LETTER FROM MR. E. YOUNG. 821 



beautiful sea-breeze quite braces you up. We have everything we need 

 out here in the shape of provisions and stores for the present, but shall require 

 oil for engines soon. I don't know of a single complaint or hitch of any sort 

 with any of the party. Whether or not, I have done my best for the party 

 and the Mission in general ; and I trust the Committee will approve of what 

 has been done. But under God's blessing, I look for greater things yet ; that 

 is, to see the desire of my heart accomplished — the ending of the cursed 

 slave-trade in this region. I write this letter in great haste, and send it down 

 by a faithful negro who was formerly in my service, and who has promised 

 to take it four hundred miles even on foot to Masaro, on the Zambesi, for 

 me. Let not the people of Scotland call them savages. No ; they are good, 

 kind, honest people, loving the very name of the English, and only desirous 

 of being taught. 



" Surely this is the country for missions. Here we are on a great and 

 fine inland sea, with seven hundred miles of coast, which you can get to from 

 the sea-coast in three weeks, now that communication is established. On 

 the Lower Shire there are thousands and thousands of natives imploring the 

 English to come to them, so there is no risk of hostilities from them. With 

 the two boilers on board the vessel was top heavy but, fitted with one, as my 

 vevj great friend Mr. Young of Kelly suggested, she is a fine sea-boat as I 

 proved her to be on Nyassa in a gale of wind. Please inform the Committee 

 that I am still full of zeal for the cause of the mission, and I am still their 

 most humble and obedient servant." 



The information briefly given above is in part supplied in the following 

 interesting letter from Mr. E. Young, R. N., the gallant leader of the Living- 

 stonia Mission party : — 



" Upper Shire, Oct. 24, 1875. 

 " Dear Captain Wilson — We launched the steamer successfully on the 6th, 

 sailed on the 8th, and arrived on Lake Nyassa ou the 12th inst. We employed 

 eight hundred carriers to convey our goods and ship across the cataracts, and 

 nothing -was lost or injured. I have tried the steamer in a stiff breeze on the 

 lake, and she is a good sea-boat, and will steam seven knots with the one 

 boiler. I have left the greater part of the party to build houses near Cape 

 Maclear, while I have come down to take up the remainder of our luggage. 

 Thus far I think the whole affair a great success. It's true I have worn down 

 a great deal, but have some mettle left in me yet. I start for Nyassa again 

 to-morrow. On Nyassa I came up with one of the slave dhows, but she had 

 no slaves on board, being bound for a cargo. Before we got near her they low- 

 ered their sail, and the master, coming from Zanzibar, at once said in broken 

 English, ' Me no got slaves in.' We are a wonder and astonishment to all 

 Arabs and natives ; the former shake their heads, no doubt thinking that their 

 game is up. There are five dhows on the lake. Before entering Nyassa, I 



