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from fever and malaria, but still the work is going on. 
Earnest Christian men are to be found daring death in 
order to seek the spiritual welfare of those tribes around the 
lake. Probably the sites of stations will be changed, for 
it is known to the Arabs that the site of that at Ujiji is 
unhealthy; and, profiting by past experience, another site 
in its stead will be chosen, although all hold upon Ujiji will 
not be relinquished. It seems a well-established fact that 
stations planted on elevated sites are usually healthy. This 
being proved, it remains to reinforce the mission-band with 
new blood, and to permit them to labour in new districts 
around the lake. 
It is also in contemplation to establish a new station at 
the southern end of Lake Tanganyika, so as to complete a 
line of communication with the Free Church mission stations 
on Lake Nyassa. James Stuart, Esq., of Glasgow, has 
offered to construct a good road between Nyassa and 
Tanganyika, in order to establish an unbroken line of 
communication between the coast and the interior, by way 
of the rivers Zambesi and Shire, and the Lakes Nyassa and 
Tanganyika, so aiding the work of the societies. His only 
conditions were, that a steamer should be placed on 
Tanganyika, a station established at its southern end, and 
all London Mission supplies sent by this new road. It 
need not be pointed out that each of these conditions 
would, if carried out, act beneficially on the mission ; there- 
fore the Directors of the London Missionary Society at once 
closed with them all. 
Although not four years have passed since the pioneers 
of this mission first saw the shores of this lake, and in 
spite of the fact that sickness and death have thinned their 
ranks, much progress has been made ; a hold has been 
gained on the affections of the natives which will not soon 
