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Not less curious is the awkward scatter of 

 Scriptural quotations and allusions that floats 

 upon the surface of his volumes. It looks as 

 though some friend had assured the author that 

 his work would not ' go down ' without a little 

 of what is popularly called ' hashed Eible ; ' 

 and that the result had been the recommendation 

 of missionary establishments at the Nile sources. 

 I am assured, however, that before the end of his 

 life Capt. Speke had greatly changed his previous 

 opinions. When travelling^ with me he used to 

 ignore ' overruling Providence or a future state ' 

 in a stvle whose unstudied conviction somewhat 

 surprised me. 



Returning to England from Fernando Po, 

 "West Africa, I attended at Bath the British 

 Association for September, 1864. The date for 

 the discussion about the Nile Sources, and the 

 claims of the Lake Tanganyika, and a N. Eastern 

 water then unnamed, versus the ' Victoria Ny- 

 anza,' was fixed on Sept. 16. On the previous day I 

 passed my quondam companion as he sat on the 

 President's right hand, and I could not but re- 

 mark the immense change of feature, of ex- 

 pression, and of general appearance which his 

 severe labours, complicated perhaps by deafness 

 and dimness of sight, had wrought in him. We 



