PUBLISHERS’ PREFACE. 
The interest taken in modern times in books of travel 
is significant of the growing feeling of sympathy with all 
manifestations of human activity. The railroad and the 
telegraph have brought the most distant nations intc 
closer commercial and social relations than it was possible 
to create, even fifty years ago. The nations of the East, 
India, China, Japan, Turkey, have all begun to feel the 
need of opening their gates to the advent of civilization. 
Even the tribes of Central Africa have been made better 
acquainted with the rest cf the, world, through the labors 
of recent explorers, than they have ever been before. 
Among these travellers, who have devoted the best 
energies of their lives in exploring these hitherto inaccessi- 
ble countries, the most distinguished is Doctor Living- 
stone. His enthusiasm, his real Christian charity, his 
devotion to the abolition of the slave trade — that curse ■ 
of Africa — have made the accounts of his explorations 
peculiarly interesting to all classes of intelligent readers. 
The publishers of this volume, therefore, present it to the 
public with confidence. It contains, in a compact form, 
the history of all of Doctor Livingstone’s voyages of dis- 
covery, and at a price which will enable those to possess it 
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