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In Africa Livingstone has left a good name. His restraint over 
himself and his men in not allowing the natives to be injured was 
very marked. Around Bangweolo firearms were then scarcely known, 
and were greatly feared ; and once, when much tried by Matipa, 
Livingstone fired a pistol through the roof of the hut, and it had the 
desired effect of alarming the chief and expediting the progress of 
the party. We refer to this Baoussi because his men, when carrying 
the body of their master along the north shore of Bangweolo, could not 
patiently bear and wait as he would have done. By the people there^ 
the Baoussi, the resting of a gun against a hut by one of the men was 
made into an offence ; strife arose, and Livingstone's men stormed 
the place, and then some neighbouring villages, taking several lives, 
and getting an easy victory by means of their firearms. This act is 
to be regretted, but probably the natives would understand the 
difference between Livingstone and his men. 
Of the different races referred to by Livingstone we cannot give 
particulars. They varied much in outward appearance, some of the 
people between Tanganyika and Moero being of a very fine type, like 
those figured on the ancient Egyptian obelisks ; others were like the 
ordinary negro, with whose appearance we are familiar ; and there 
were some still lower in the human scale. It is well known that 
the migrations of natives in Africa from one part to another have 
been considerable, and this partly accounts for the great admixture of 
languages. But what chiefly concerns us is that all of them are 
equally destitute of the knowledge of the true God, which through 
grace is committed to us. It is nearly fifteen years since Livingstone 
died, and yet how very few of the people in the region we have been 
considering have been reached ! We may say, only those bordering 
on Lakes Nyassa and Tanganyika, and in Garenganze, have been 
touched. Shall we who so fully know the grace of our Lord Jesus 
Christ leave these poor people still to go on, year after year, with 
their miserable notion that a footprint somewhere, fifteen inches long, 
is all that is known of God's ways upon earth ? Let us thank God for 
all the efforts put forth on the Congo, Lake Nyanza, and other parts 
of Africa ; but let us not forget the Babisa, the Babemba, the Balunda,^ 
the Baoussi, and many other needy nations, of whom we are thus put 
in mind, and who need to be told of God's salvation. 
M. giraud's description. 
M. Giraud, a French naval officer, twenty-three years of age, formed 
the plan of taking a boat in sections to Central Africa, with the 
intention of traversing its great lakes. Had he been aware of the 
efforts that the African Lakes' Cojnpany had previously made he 
might have saved himself much toil by following the route they 
adopted ; viz., ascending the Zambesi and Shire rivers to Lake 
