LIVINGSTONE’S MISSIONARY TRAVELS 
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trolled greed would lead them to trade in slaves. In his anxiety to 
suppress this growing traffic, he sought an outlet for such raw material 
as the natives could be induced to gather. His search for some great 
natural highway to the ocean led him, after years of strenuous en¬ 
deavor, first to Loanda on the west coast, and then from there to 
Quilimane on the shores of the Indian Ocean and won him world-wide 
fame as a traveler. 
Yet all the while he hungered for the soul of the African. He 
became convinced—and to be convinced with Livingstone was to be 
enthusiastic as well—that the evangelizing of Africa was not to be 
achieved in its earliest stage by building stations and settling perma¬ 
nently among one people; but rather by staying a few years with each 
tribe, preaching the Gospel, specially instructing such as would receive 
it, and then moving on to new tribes. 
And so it happened that, whenever and wherever he traveled, 
he sowed the seed as he went. Far and wide he flung it; and far and 
wide, even to this day, his name is remembered with respect. The 
principle which actuated him through it all is contained in those well- 
known words of his, “The end of the geographical feat is only the 
beginning of the missionary enterprise.” 
On the 1st of June, 1849, in company with two Englishmen bent 
on sporting adventure—Mr. Oswell and Mr. Murray—Livingstone 
set out on his northward march. Right in his track lay the great 
Kalahari Desert. From the Orange River in the south to Lake Ngami 
in the north, from the Transvaal on the east to Great Namaqualand 
on the west, this vast tract of country extends—in its southern portions 
open and grassy, and in its northern wooded as well. It is flat and 
sandy, and in many parts grass grows luxuriantly, and bushes and 
trees are not uncommon. Here and there are distinctly traceable the 
beds of ancient rivers, but no water ever flows along them now. It 
is a region of few wells and no streams, a country of complete drought; 
and to the natives and Boers who dwelt east of it, the Kalahari Desert 
conveys the idea of utter desolation. 
And yet this idea is in many respects erroneous. Large numbers 
of Bushmen lead a nomadic life upon this sandy plain. From place to 
place they follow the antelope—a beast which resembles the camel in 
