How I Found Livingstone Travels, Adventures And Discoveries In Central Africa Including Four Months Residence With Dr. Livingstone By Sir Henry M. Stanley
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It Is A Principle With Livingstone To Do Well What He Undertakes To
Do; And In The Consciousness That He Is Doing It, Despite The
Yearning For His Home Which Is Sometimes Overpowering, He Finds,
To A Certain Extent, Contentment, If Not Happiness.
To men
differently constituted, a long residence amongst the savages
of Africa would be contemplated with horror, yet Livingstone's mind
can find pleasure and food for philosophic studies.
The wonders of
primeval nature, the great forests and sublime mountains, the
perennial streams and sources of the great lakes, the marvels of
the earth, the splendors of the tropic sky by day and by night -
all terrestrial and celestial phenomena are manna to a man of
such self-abnegation and devoted philanthropic spirit. He can
be charmed with the primitive simplicity of Ethiop's dusky
children, with whom he has spent so many years of his life;
he has a sturdy faith in their capabilities; sees virtue
in them where others see nothing but savagery; and wherever
he has gone among them, he has sought to elevate a people
that were apparently forgotten of God and Christian man.
One night I took out my note-book, and prepared to take down
from his own lips what he had to say about his travels; and
unhesitatingly he related his experiences, of which the following
is a summary:
Dr. David Livingstone left the Island of Zanzibar in March, 1866.
On the 7th of the following month he departed from Mikindany Bay
for the interior, with an expedition consisting of twelve Sepoys
from Bombay, nine men from Johanna, of the Comoro Islands, seven
liberated slaves, and two Zambezi men, taking them as an
experiment; six camels, three buffaloes, two mules, and three
donkeys.
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