.$857-59 LETTER FROM LIVINGSTONE 83 



hands within his, and receiving the admission in 

 the name of the Holy Trinity.' 



In the summer of this year Owen received an 

 interesting letter from David Livingstone, which 

 is dated May 30, 1859, at Shupanga :— 



* My dear Friend, — . . . We went down to the 

 mouth of the river called Kongone in expectation 

 of meeting a man-of-war with salt provisions for 

 our crew, but my letter to the Admiral must have 

 been detained somewhere — no ship appeared on 

 24th, the day appointed. We are now going up 

 the Tette to embark my brother and to make some 

 magnetical observations for General Sabine at 

 [Lake] Shirwa. We go back to it, and will, of 

 course, make a push for [Lake] Nyinyesi ; 5 but 

 say nothing about it lest we fail. It is more 

 pleasant to speak after than before. You will 

 get the [elephant] jaws some time or other : pro- 

 bably we may meet a vessel in July. We make 

 our appointment in a bottle buried in an island in 

 Kongone Harbour. We could have had more 

 frequent calls, as the Admiral is very friendly, but 

 some men were lost, and I forbade sending in 

 boats for our letters. A slight difference this — a 

 year without letters, and the penny-post nuisance 

 with which I was deluged ! My wife is at 

 Kuruman, I believe, with her parents, but I hope 



5 A lake then only known from reports of natives. 



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