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LIVINGSTONE'S JOURNEY ACROSS AFRICA 
another time it would be a buffalo. Upon one occasion several buffa¬ 
loes suddenly charged at full gallop into their midst, one of them toss¬ 
ing a Makololo high into the air. Wonderful to relate, he fell upon 
the ground uninjured! He had been carried some distance on the 
horns of the buffalo, and then tossed; yet not only was no bone broken, 
but even the skin was uninjured. The man was carefully “sham¬ 
pooed”—or, to use a phrase more in vogue just now, massaged —and 
in a few days was actively engaged in hunting buffaloes for food. 
In March Livingstone arrived at Tete, the furthest outpost of the 
Portuguese, and was most kindly received by the governor. Fever 
again prostrated him, and it was not till the end of April that he could 
set out once more for Quilimane. He left his Makololo men at Tete. 
Nearly three years elapsed before he rejoined them, but he had’ prom¬ 
ised’ to return and take them home, and, believing in him implicitly, 
they had remained. 
Livingstone went from Tete to Sena, and, though suffering 
greatly from fever, he pushed on as soon as he could move, and passing 
the important affluence of the Shire River, finally reached Quilimane, 
and gazed on the gleaming waters of the Indian Ocean on the 20th of 
May, 1856. 
Though the welcome which awaited the great traveler on his 
return to England is of high interest, we must pass it by with a few 
words, as having no immediate relation to our main topic. He reached 
home on December 9, 1856, to meet his wife and children, from whom 
he had parted more than five years before. The fame of his exploits 
had preceded him and his welcome to England was as warm as wel¬ 
come could be. The Royal Geographical and the London Missionary 
Societies called special meetings to greet him, and on all sides he was 
sought and honored in every suitable way, the Queen being among 
those who asked for the honor of an interview. His work, “Missionary 
Travels,” proved of intense interest, and the first edition of twelve 
thousand copies, published at a guinea each, was immediately ex¬ 
hausted. That he should return and continue his work was every¬ 
where desired, and in February, 1858, he was appointed British Consul 
for East Africa and offered the leadership of an expedition to explore 
Central and Eastern Africa. With this object in view he set sail again 
for his chosen field of labor. 
