LIVINGSTONE. 
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Having seen Ins family off to England, Livingstone 
left the Cape on June 8, 1852, and proceeding, slowly 
northwards, reached Linyanti, the capital of the Mftkololo, 
on the Chobe, on May 23, 1853, received in royal style 
by Sekeletu, and welcomed by all the people. His first 
object in this journey was to seek for some healthy high 
land in which to plant a station. Obtaining a large 
ZAMBESI RAPIDS. 
fleet of canoes, he ascended the Zambesi, which he found 
much obstructed by rapids, as far as its confluence with 
the Leeba. He, however, found no place free from the 
destructive tsetse insect, and therefore returned to 
Linyanti, after a .journey of nine weeks, resolved to 
carry out the second part of his scheme, which was to 
discover a route to the interior from either the west or 
cast coast. To accompany Livingstone in his hazardous 
