842 LIFE OF DA VID LIVINGSTONE, LL.D. 



in a spirit of divine love, and recognising his manhood, treat him as a brother. 

 To such men Africa will at last owe her redemption, not only from the curse of 

 slavery, but from the enthralment of ignorance, superstition, and sin. 



On Tuesday, May 23rd, Mr. Cotterill, and a Mr. Parry, embarked on 

 board the " Windsor Castle," with their boat and a quantity of goods, 

 for the establishment of their trading station on Lake Nyassa, and sailed 

 the same day from Dartmouth for the Cape. The same vessel took 

 out a mission party, representing the Livingstone East African Mission 

 of the Established Church of Scotland, and several members of the Free 

 Church of Scotland, on their way to the Zambesi. They also had with them 

 a boat for the station on Lake Nyassa. 



A long and interesting report has been furnished by Bishop Steere of a 

 journey taken by him in 1875, in consequence of the favourable reception 

 which Dr. Livingstone met with from the chiefs of the Yao or Waiyou tribe in 

 East Africa. The Bishop's Expedition left Zanzibar at the end of August, 

 and landed the morning but one after their departure, at Lindi, a place which 

 he had selected as the nearest point to the Lake Nyassa, and at the same time 

 possessing one of the best and most accessible harbours on that part of the 

 coast. The Bishop had with him the Rev. C. A. James, Mr. A. Bellville, 

 and Mr. Beardall, with about twenty Zanzibar porters under Chumi and Susi, 

 Livingstone's men. In consequence of hindrances from the people on the 

 coast, it was November before they fairly started for the interior. 



The Report goes on to say — " The coast settlements end at Ching'ong'o, 

 some ten or twelve miles from Lindi. Thence we plunged into a thickly- 

 grown forest, and after a long morning reached Lake Lutamba, a fine sheet 

 of water, about five miles long, and two or three wide, with high wooded 

 hills all round. We were now fairly in the Mwera country, and stopped at 

 a village close by the lake. We were nine days of slow travelling in passing 

 through the Mwera villages, which lie along a fine range of high hills, with 

 many spurs and sub-ridges, in general direction north and south. Thence 

 we passed to our first stretch of uninhabited forest, and were six days before 

 we emerged upon the belt of villages near the Rovuma. 



" This Mwera forest is very level, and most part of it very wet at the 

 wet season, and very scant of water at the dry. We were passing just at the 

 driest time, and had to arrange our marches so as each night to encamp near 

 water. There is something very solemn in these huge silent forests. The 

 men have a superstition against shouting and singing, as they do at other 

 times, and the bare feet make no tramp, so that the only sounds one hears 

 are when they pass the word to avoid a stump or a stone in the path, or an 

 elephant's footmark, which means a round hole a foot or so across and deep 

 as may happen, or, most to be shunned of all, a line of ants across the path. 



" The ants are the true kings of the forest. The coast men have a legend 



