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Livingstone's mission was destroyed by the Dutch boors, one of them secured as a token a little hymn book given to Mrs. Livingstone by her father, Mr. Moffat. A Port Natal merchant,-brother of a friend of his (Mr. Barrett's), from whom he had the story,travelled on one occasion far into the interior of Africa, to purchase ivory, &c. One night he stayed at a Dutch settlement, and in the house amongst some old newspapers he spied this hymn book, which bore an inscription as the gift of Mr. Moffat to his dear daughter, Mrs. Livingstone, on her departure. This Port Natal merchant purchased the book, and, on recently coming to England, he made a present of the book to Mrs. Cheetham, the wife of the member of parliament. A week or two since, Mrs. Livingstone was Mrs. Cheetham's guest, and Mrs. Cheetham had the pleasure of restoring to Mrs. Livingstone the identical hymn book, lost and discovered in this singular way. Dr. Livingstone left Kuruman upon his fourth journey in June, 1852; he crossed again the river Zouga, and confirmed his previous observations, or corrected them; again crossed the salt pans, and took his former westerly direction. His oxen and waggon stuck in the mud, and he went forward almost alone during the rainy season, when the rain was so tremendous that he had to turn his arm-pit into a watch-pocket, to keep his chronometer dry, upon which their lives depended. He took to the river in a small boat that he had brought with him, and cut his way for three days and nights, twenty miles down the river. He climbed a tree to descry the course of the river Chobe with his glass, and to his infinite satisfaction discovered it. He thus reached Linyantè a second time. The young chief Sekelulu (for old Sebitoanè was dead), lifted up his hands and eyes, and said-" Well, we did not think any one could reach Linyantè in the rainy season, and we entrenched ourselves here that we might never be invaded. You Englishmen must have

dropped from the skies on the back of a hippopotamus. Help was afforded, and in two days all Livingstone's men, &c., were rescued.

He endeavoured to advance the interests of the people in every possible way; and it was perfectly sublime to find that he spent his leisure time in teaching them to read the Word of GOD. He set out to reach the western coast, and forty-seven brave fellows volunteered to go with him. Livingstone had his choice of canoes, and he preferred the chief's, which was of extraordinary dimensions, 20in. wide, and 34ft. long, having six athletic rowers, who made it shoot down the river. After a variety of perils, Livingstone reached St. Paul de Loando on the western coast, having literally bisected South Central Africa, a feat unparalleled in all African discovery. When these forty-seven faithful fellows saw the sea, their astonishment exceeded all bounds. They said

"Our fathers told us the world had no end; they deceived us; we have come to the place where the world does end, and the world says, 'I'm done, and there is no more of me, but all the rest is water."" In the harbour was a vessel waiting for Livingstone, and the officers and men vied with each other in showing these simple natives kindness. They had never seen ships before; and having no money with which to make purchases, some of them hired themselves out for a month to discharge a collier, that they might earn wages to buy presents to take back to their own country.

Dr. Livingstone started upon his last trip in Christmas week, 1854, for the purpose of reaching the other side of the continent of Africa; and encountered the most tremendous difficulties in his way. He fulfilled his promise to restore the old chief his people, and remained at Linyantè some time. He made the ethnological discovery that the language into which Moffat, Hamilton, and others, had translated the Scriptures, was the language spoken

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throughout the heart of Africa. With one hundred and fourteen picked men, including most of his former company, Livingstone set forward for a hostile country; but, as one of his people said, they would never do harm to the man who had married Moffat's daughter-so wonderful was the charm of that great man's name in the heart of Africa. He soon found what had been the anxious object of his search for six years a high taple-land, well watered and wooded, thickly peopled, and in every respect suitable for a mission station. Here on the northern bank of the river Zambesi, Livingstone founded one of the stations of the London Missionary Society. He had wished to bring to England a faithful servant; but such was the novelty of the engines, &c., on board the steam vessel, that in a fit of delirium he jumped overboard and was drowned. Mr. Barrett, in concluding his sketch, called upon his auditors to honour the heroic man who had braved so many dangers in the cause of CHRIST.

END OF VOLUME III.

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