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THIS SECOND .rfXVEDITION. 
CHAPTER XXXIII. 
DR. LIVINGSTONE STARTS UPON HIS SECOND EXPEDITION. 
To those who love the quiet charms of domestic life, this 
sixteen years spent from home, in the exploration of a wild 
country settled by still wilder men, would seem to have been 
sufficient. Dr. Livingstone, however, remained in Great 
Britain only about a year and a half, during which he pre- 
pared and published the volume of Missionary Travels and 
Researches in South Africa, which have furnished the 
material for the preceding portion of our volume. During 
this stay in Europe, the interest excited by his researches 
found its expression in various ways. The great Univer- 
sities of England conferred degrees upon him, the Geogra- 
phical Society feted him, foreign associations sent him 
medals and diplomas, and the Queen invited him to a pri- 
vate audience. Another expedition was organized with 
Government aid, to explore the sources of the Zambesi, 
and the history of this expedition was given by Dr. Living- 
stone after his return, in 1864, in a voluminous English 
work, the material and important portions of which form 
the basis of the second part of the present volume. The 
objects of this expedition, as explicitly stated by the Eng- 
lish Government, were to extend the knowledge already 
attained of the geography and mineral and agricultural 
resources of Eastern and Central Africa ; to improve our 
acquaintance with the inhabitants, and to endeavor to 
engage them to apply themselves to industrial pursuits and 
to the cultivation of their lands, while it was hoped that 
by encouraging the natives to occupy themselves in the 
development of their country, a considerable advance 
might be made towards the extinction of the slave trade. 
The expedition left England on the 10th of March, 1858, 
i» the Government steamer “ Pearl,” and reached the East 
coast of Afrioa on the following May. The Pearl was fur* 
