>857-59 LETTER FROM LIVINGSTONE 83 
hands within his, and receiving the admission in 
the name of the Holy Trinity.’ 
In the summer of this year Owen received an 
interesting letter from David Livingstone, which 
IS dated May 30, 1859, at Shupanga 
‘ My dear Friend,— ... We went down to the 
mouth of the river called Kongone in expectation 
of meeting a man-of-war with salt provisions for 
our crew, but my letter to the Admiral must have 
been detained somewhere— no ship appeared on 
24th, the day appointed. We are now going up 
Ae Tette to embark my brother and to make some 
magnetical observations for General Sabine at 
[Lake] Shirwa. We go back to it, and will, of 
oourse, make a push for [Lake] Nyinyesi;® but 
say nothing about it lest we fail. It is ’more 
pleasant to speak after than before. You will 
get the [elephant] jaws some time or other : pro- 
bably we may meet a vessel in July. We make 
^1- appointment in a bottle buried in an island in 
Kongone Harbour. We could have had more 
requent calls, as the Admiral is very friendly, but’ 
some men were lost, and I forbade sending in 
t^oats for our letters. A slight difference this— a 
y ar without letters, and the penny-post nuisance 
^ith which I was deluged! My wife is at 
uruman, I believe, with her parents, but I hope 
^ A lake then only known from reports of natives. 
