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A POPULAR ACCOUNT OF DR. LIVINGSTONE'S EXPEDITION
TO THE ZAMBESI AND ITS TRIBUTARIES AND THE
DISCOVERY OF LAKES SHIRWA AND NYASSA 1858-1864

TO THE RIGHT HON. LORD PALMERSTON, K.G., G.C.B.
My Lord,
I beg leave to dedicate this Volume to your Lordship, as a tribute justly
due to the great Statesman who has ever had at heart the amelioration
of the African race; and as a token of admiration of the beneficial
effects of that policy which he has so long laboured to establish on the
West Coast of Africa; and which, in improving that region, has most
forcibly shown the need of some similar system on the opposite side of
the Continent.
DAVID LIVINGSTONE.

NOTICE TO THIS WORK.

The name of the late Mr. Charles Livingstone takes a prominent place
amongst those who acted under the leadership of Dr. Livingstone
during the adventurous sojourn of the "Zambesi Expedition" in East
Africa. In laying the result of their discoveries before the public, it was
arranged that Mr. Charles Livingstone should place his voluminous
notes at the disposal of his brother: they are incorporated in the present
work, but in a necessarily abridged form.

PREFACE.

It has been my object in this work to give as clear an account as I was
able of tracts of country previously unexplored, with their river systems,
natural productions, and capabilities; and to bring before my
countrymen, and all others interested in the cause of humanity, the
misery entailed by the slave-trade in its inland phases; a subject on
which I and my companions are the first who have had any
opportunities of forming a judgment. The eight years spent in Africa,
since my last work was published, have not, I fear, improved my power
of writing English; but I hope that, whatever my descriptions want in
clearness, or literary skill, may in a measure be compensated by the
novelty of the scenes described, and the additional information afforded
on that curse of Africa, and that shame, even now, in the 19th century,
of an European nation,--the slave-trade.
I took the "Lady Nyassa" to Bombay for the express purpose of selling
her, and might without any difficulty have done so; but with the
thought of parting with her arose, more strongly than ever, the feeling
of disinclination to abandon the East Coast of Africa to the Portuguese
and slave-trading, and I determined to run home and consult my friends
before I allowed the little vessel to pass from my hands. After,
therefore, having put two Ajawa lads, Chuma and Wakatani, to school
under the eminent missionary the Rev. Dr. Wilson, and having
provided satisfactorily for the native crew, I started homewards with
the three white sailors,