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EASTERN CENTRAL AFRICA. 
 
 LIVINGSTONIA: 
 
 ®lj£ fission of tlie JFreo CIjmkIj of 
 ^cotlanb to lab iioaasa. 
 
 WITH AN APPENDIX 
 
 CONTAINING 
 
 Speeches, Letters, and Lists of Subseriptions. 
 
 SECOND EDITION, 
 
 EDINBURGH: 
 
 PRINTED BY JOHN GEEIG & SON, 57 EEEDERICK ST. 
 
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PEEFATOEY NOTE TO SECOND EDITION. 
 
 Since the first edition of this Statement appeared, an incor- 
 porative union between the Free Church and the Eeformed 
 Presbyterian Church has been duly effected. 
 
 Since then also an additional letter, with a new map of Lake 
 Nyassa, from Mr E. D. Young has come to hand. It is of four 
 months’ later date than any previously received, and is full of 
 interesting and encouraging details. (See p. 40.) 
 
GLASGOW AUXILIARY COMMITTEE. 
 
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CENTEAL AFEICA. 
 
 Jiiumgslnnia: ®ission In Jtab ijansa. 
 
 Condition and Claims of Africa. 
 
 The cry of the man of Macedonia whom the Apostle saw in vision, 
 “ Come over and help us,”—a cry which was accepted as clearly 
 indicating the will of God—still sounds in the attentive ear from 
 every uuevangelized portion of the world. In common, then, with 
 the rest of Heathendom, the great continent of Africa possesses a 
 solemn claim on the sympathy and efforts of the Church of Christ. 
 But we may safely assert that, in some respects, the claim of Africa 
 is peculiar, and peculiarly strong. Less, proportionally, has been 
 attempted towards the evangelization of Africa than of other con¬ 
 tinents ; its superstitions are more fearfully dark than most of those 
 even of Polynesia or India; its temporal sufferings, arising from 
 the continual feuds of its countless and mutually hostile tribes, are 
 exceptionally severe; and the horrible evil of slavery—in the form 
 both of domestic servitude and the foreign slave trade—fills the far 
 greater part of the vast continent with “lamentation, and mourning, 
 and woe.” Even to the Greeks and Romans, Africa was a region 
 of mystery and terror. They said that in Africa, every year, some 
 new, monstrous thing appeared. It is deeply sad to think that such 
 monstrous things have continued to appear down to the present 
 day, either in the form of new evils, or in that of ancient and 
 traditional woes. 
 
 Increasing interest regarding African Missions. 
 
 Dr Livingstone. 
 
 But we earnestly trust that the long night of sorrow is wearing to 
 a close. Various circumstances have of late combined to fix the eye 
 
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 of the Church of Christ more than before on Africa. Among these, 
 we must give especial prominence to the doings and sufferings of 
 Dr Livingstone. His whole life was consecrated to the service of 
 God in Africa ; and, in addition to what he performed in directly 
 evangelistic work, he became the most illustrious of the long and 
 noble succession of recent African explorers. And if his heroic life 
 accomplished much on behalf of the land he loved so well, we may 
 almost assert that his death, with its manifold touching associations, 
 accomplished even more. Livingstone died on his knees, pleading— 
 who can doubt it?—for Africa ; and in accordance with the prayer 
 of His dying servant, the Lord has stirred the heart of the British 
 nation to feel for Africa, and to work for Africa, as it never did before. 
 
 While the whole nation was thus moved by the death of the noble 
 missionary, it was most reasonable to expect and demand that Scot¬ 
 land should be impressed even more powerfully than England or 
 Ireland. Livingstone was a Scotchman—-“a typical Scotchman,” as 
 has been often said; and Scotland, which, from the days of the 
 distinguished traveller Bruce, had taken a leading part in labouring on 
 behalf of Africa, was laid under peculiar obligations to put forth her 
 highest energies to carry on the work which had been bequeathed her, 
 we may say, as a legacy by her illustrious son. 
 
 What Scotland has done for African Missions since 1795. 
 
 Since the commencement of African Missions, many persons in 
 North Britain have taken the deepest interest in their progress. 
 Some of the most distinguished men who have laboured in connec¬ 
 tion with the London and other English Missionary Societies have 
 been Scotchmen ; such as Campbell, Philip, Moffat, and others. But 
 not to dwell on this,—it is full eighty years ago since North Britain 
 established a society of her own on behalf of Africa. The honour of 
 doing so belongs especially to the city of Glasgow, in which was 
 formed in the year 1795 the Glasgow Missionary Society. In 1837 
 an amicable separation took place in the Society at home, and among 
 the missionaries abroad. Those who are now connected with the Free 
 Church assumed the designation of the “ Glasgow Missionary Society 
 adhering to the principles of the Church of Scotland,” while the 
 other section became the “ Glasgow African Missionary Society,” and 
 was, a few years later, merged in the missions of the United 
 Presbyterian Church. Ever since, the two missions have laboured 
 most harmoniously side by side in Kaffraria. 
 
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 Feee Church Missions in'Afeica. 
 
 Confining our attention to the Free Church Missions, we note 
 that, while a great and ever-growing work has been performed at 
 Lovedale and other stations, it has all along been the hope and effort 
 of the Church to extend its operations to the northward. Beyond 
 British Kafiraria, in the Transkei territory, two principal stations, with 
 out-stations, have been set up. Farther north, an important mission 
 has been established in the capital of Natal; and still farther north, 
 there is the Gordon Memorial Mission. Pressing solicitations have 
 been made to us to push on until we have a chain of stations extend¬ 
 ing to the river Zambesi. 
 
 Proposal to plant a Mission in Central Africa. 
 
 But farther, the proposal of penetrating far into the interior of 
 Africa was distinctly brought before the Free Church fifteen years 
 ago. The Eev. James Stewart then offered himself as an agent to 
 commence a mission in some of the inland territories laid open by Dr 
 Livingstone. He actually joined Livingstone in his second great 
 expedition, remained with him a considerable time, and then pene¬ 
 trated a considerable way up the Zambesi and Shire rivers. Having 
 collected a large fund of information regarding inland Africa, he 
 returned to Scotland, and laid it before the Church in 1863. Dr 
 Stewart has since then been connected with our Lovedale work; but 
 he has never laid aside the hope of helping to establish a mission in 
 or near the centre of Africa. 
 
 Plans of Extending the Mission. Question of Locality. 
 
 Lake Nyassa fixed on. 
 
 During the winter of 1873-4, the question of our planting a new 
 mission in Eastern Africa was under the earnest consideration of 
 the Foreign Missions’ Committee. Dr Duff and Dr Murray Mitchell 
 held a consultation on the subject with Sir Bartle Frere, whose 
 important services in connection with the repression of slavery are 
 known to all. He kindly supplied much useful information, and 
 strongly recommended the establishment of a mission by the Free 
 Church. While the matter was under consideration. Dr Stewart 
 arrived in Scotland. His great experience fitted him to afford 
 invaluable counsel on the whole subject, and especially in regard 
 
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 to a point which the Committee felt to be both difficult and exceed¬ 
 ingly important, namely, the choice of a locality. He strongly 
 recommended that the new mission should be established on the 
 shores of Lake Nyassa, and that the station should be called 
 Livingstonia, in commemoration of the illustrious dead. Mean¬ 
 while our lamented friend Dr Wilson of Bombay had been written 
 to, and had made the striking announcement that Dr Livingstone, 
 when he was his guest in 1865, had expressed an earnest desire 
 that the Free Church should occupy as a station some of the heights 
 around that very lake. Dr Wilson himself, though at first disposed 
 to recommend the Somali coast as the sphere of operations, 
 soon expressed his hearty concurrence with the proposal regarding 
 Lake Nyassa. The reasons for choosing that part of Africa were 
 exceedingly strong. It was known that the country around the 
 lake was very fertile and populous. The inhabitants were, for 
 the most part, kind and hospitable, and very favourably disposed 
 towards the English. There was a great danger of the accursed 
 slave trade turning the fair land into a wilderness, unless a counter¬ 
 active force were speedily brought to bear upon it. Moreover, 
 there was water communication from the lake by the Shir5 and 
 Zambesi rivers all the way to the sea,—a point which was felt to 
 be of primary importance. 
 
 Who should be Leader of the projected Expedition ? 
 
 Considerations of this kind enabled the Committee speedily to 
 decide in favour of Lake Nyassa as the site of the intended mission. 
 A grave question then presented itself—Who shall be the leader of 
 any expedition we may send forth ? It would have been wrong to 
 despatch only new and inexperienced men into so distant and perilous 
 a region. Dr Stewart from the first declared that, with all his desire 
 to push into Central Africa, he was compelled by the urgent require¬ 
 ments of the Lovedale Institution and its ofishoot in the Transkei 
 territory, to decline to conduct the mission to its chosen seat. But 
 he added that there was one man pre-eminently fitted to perform this 
 very difficult task—Mr E. D. Young, of the Royal Navy. This 
 gentleman had spent two years in company with Dr Livingstone, and 
 subsequently, as commander of the Livingstone Search Expedition, 
 had visited Lake Nyassa itself. In seven months he successfully 
 accomplished the work he had undertaken, which was definitely to 
 ascertain the fate of the great missionary. 
 
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 Dr Stewart declared that he could hardly conceive of a combina¬ 
 tion of qualities more admirable than that which marked out Mr 
 Young as the fit leader of the enterprise. He had confidence in him 
 as a man of thoroughly Christian character, of great nautical skill, 
 of enterprising spirit, and of pity for down-trodden Africa, amount¬ 
 ing to a vehement passion. The Committee on this commissioned 
 Dr Stewart and Dr M. Mitchell to proceed to the south of England and 
 have an interview with Mr Young, giving them power to engage his 
 services for two years, provided the Admiralty, in whose service ho 
 still was, should grant him leave. The interview took place, and 
 was in every way satisfactory. Though deeply attached to his wife 
 and children, Mr Young felt that this was a call from God which he 
 could not decline ; and he agreed to ask leave from the Admiralty 
 for the two years. The Admiralty generously agreed to his request; 
 a most happy result, which was in no small degree due to the kind 
 assistance of a distinguished officer. Captain Wilson, of the Eoyal 
 Navy, and to a memorial to the Lords of the Admiralty forwarded by 
 leading merchants of Glasgow. 
 
 Could the necessary Funds be raised ? Generosity of Friends 
 IN Glasgow and elsewhere. 
 
 So far everything was most encouraging. Then came up the 
 weighty question, whether the funds needful for the equipment of a 
 mission worthy of the occasion could be obtained. A private meet¬ 
 ing held in Glasgow was attended by a considerable number of lead¬ 
 ing merchants, and by Drs Duff, M. Mitchell, and Stewart, at which 
 the financial requirements and prospects were very carefully con¬ 
 sidered. The necessary expenses, it was seen, would be heavy. 
 Ten thousand pounds, it was calculated, would be required to give 
 the mission a fair start; and ten thousand pounds additional would 
 probably not be more than was needful to carry it on efficiently for 
 some years, until it should become partially or wholly self-supporting. 
 But the generosity of the friends present awakened the most cheering 
 expectations. Mr Young of Kelly, a dear friend of Livingstone’s 
 from his youth upwards, put his name down for £1000 ; Mr James 
 Stevenson did the same ; Messrs W. & P. Mackinnon united in 
 giving the same munificent contribution ; and Messrs White and 
 Martin gave each £500. It was evident that the scheme would 
 not fail for lack of pecuniary support. 
 
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 CO-OPEKATION OF SCOTTISH ChUECHES IN EEGAED TO LaKE NyASSA. 
 
 The next point that came under consideration was one oi an 
 exceedingly interesting character. As originally conceived, the 
 Mission to. Lake Nyassa was exclusively a Free Church enterprise— 
 simply an addition to its already existing African missions. But the 
 relations between the Free and the Reformed Presbyterian Churches 
 were so peculiar, and so clearly indicative of an incorporative union 
 speedily taking place between the two bodies, that it seemed only 
 natural they should go forward in a common effort on behalf of 
 Livingstonia. The fitness of this arrangement approved itself to 
 the members of both churches as soon as the proposal was made. 
 The generosity of Mr Young of Kelly, who is a member of the 
 Reformed Presbyterian Church, would of itself have rendered the 
 arrangement desirable. 
 
 The Established Church of Scotland was also desirous of planting 
 a mission in the neighbourhood of Lake Nyassa; and a special 
 Committee, of which I)r Macrae of Hawick is Convener, had been 
 appointed to mature the needful preparatory arrangements. Dr 
 Macrae proposed that a consultation should be held by his Committee 
 and ours as to the nature and extent of the co-operation that might 
 be between them and us in regard to the work in the Nyassa region. 
 The suggestion was felt to be important, both in itself and as coming 
 from such a quarter. It would be absurd in any single Church to 
 undertake to evangelize the whole territory around Lake Nyassa ; 
 and all must look forward with ardent expectation to the time—God 
 grant it may not be distant!—when the shores of that great lake 
 shall be girdled round with Christian settlements, sustained, as they 
 will probably be, by various churches or societies, but all striving 
 for the same great end, and all rejoicing to be helpful to each other. 
 The result of the friendly conferences held by representatives of the 
 two Committees was most satisfactory.'^* 
 
 When by-and-bye it became evident that the Established Church 
 would not be able to despatch an expedition to Africa in the course of 
 1875, Dr Macrae suggested that an agent of theirs might proceed 
 with our mission, in order to pioneer the way for the one they hoped 
 
 * For a full statement in regard to the negotiations with the Special 
 Committee of the Established Church, and other important particulars, 
 see Dr Duff’s Speech delivered in the Free Church Commission, 3d March 
 1375. 
 
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 to send forth in 1876. This was agreed to; and Mr Henderson, the 
 gentleman chosen by the Established Church Committee, has proved 
 himself to be, as Dr Macrae said he would—and as we fully expected 
 —“ an upright, able, and willing coadjutor.” 
 
 Such were the amicable relations entered into with two of the 
 Presbyterian Churches of Scotland. It remained only to have co¬ 
 operation with the United Presbyterian Church. This body has 
 already valuable missions in two parts of Africa—Kaffraria and Old 
 Calabar; and having recently extended its evangelistic efforts to 
 Japan, Spain, and elsewhere, the United Presbyterian Church, 
 much as its members sympathized with the efforts made for Lake 
 Nyassa, hardly felt itself in circumstances to set up a mission of its 
 own in that region. But a delightful way of not only manifesting 
 sympathy but materially aiding in the work soon presented itself. 
 We had no thoroughly trained medical missionary ready to accom¬ 
 pany our expedition; Mr Black, who was designated as medical 
 head, not being able to complete his studies and obtain his degree 
 till 1876. In these circumstances, the Mission Board of the United 
 Presbyterian Church offered to put the services of Dr Laws at our 
 disposal for two years, and at the same time to pay his salary. 
 Nothing could have been more generous or opportune. Dr Laws 
 was known to be a young man of very high qualifications and glowing 
 zeal; and the brotherly offer of the United Presbyterian Church was 
 most gratefully accepted. 
 
 Public Meetings. Very hearty response. 
 
 By this time important public meetings had been held in various 
 places, for the purpose of bringing the object fully before the mind of 
 our countrymen. The first of these took place in Glasgow, on the 
 18th January, Mr White of Overtoun in the chair. The assemblage 
 was large and enthusiastic. Among the chief speakers were Captain 
 Wilson of the Royal Navy, and Mr Young, both of whom had come 
 from England to attend the meeting. A meeting was subsequently 
 held at Dundee, with Mr W. 0. Dalgleish in the chair; a third at Aber¬ 
 deen, presided over by the Lord Provost; and a fourth at Edin¬ 
 burgh, the chairman being the Right Honourable Lord Moncrieff. 
 At all the meetings Dr Stewart and Mr Young took part; and at the 
 Edinburgh one we enjoyed the very valuable assistance of the Rev. 
 Horace Waller, formerly of the Universities Mission, and well known 
 
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 as the editor of the “ Last Journals of Dr Livingstone.” The 
 earnest appeals of gentlemen so well acquainted with the condition 
 and necessities of Africa, as those we have mentioned, were fitted to 
 awaken the deepest interest in the projected enterprise. The resolu¬ 
 tions at the Glasgow meeting, to which those passed at the subsequent 
 meetings were very similar, were as follows :— 
 
 I. “ That this meeting expresses cordial satisfaction at the proposal 
 to establish a missionary settlement of an evangelistic, educational, and 
 industrial character on Lake Nyassa, to be called ‘ Livingstonia,’ under 
 the management of the Foreign Missions Committees of the Free and 
 Reformed Presbyterian Churches, and its satisfaction at the prospect 
 that at length the light of the Gospel of Jesus Christ is to be carried 
 into the darkness of Central Africa.” 
 
 II. “ That, since the heaviest expense must be chiefly incurred at the 
 outset, and during the earlier years of its existence, in order to place 
 such a mission on a secure and permanent basis for the future, an effort 
 should be made to raise an aggregate sum of £10,000.” 
 
 Committees were formed in the cities we have mentioned, for the 
 purpose of collecting subscriptions. (See page 3.) The subscription 
 list steadily filled. Many, unsolicited, sent contributions; and 
 not a few of these were not members of Presbyterian Churches. 
 The heart of Scotland was evidently stirred. 
 
 The Mission to be Evangelistic, Educational, and Industrial. 
 
 Choice of Agents. 
 
 In the meantime steady preparation was made for the sending out 
 of the expedition. It had been agreed that the work to be carried on 
 at Lake Nyassa should be, 1st, Evangelistic—for the simple preach¬ 
 ing of the Gospel; 2d, Educational—for the training of the young, 
 at least to read and write ; and, 3d, Industrial—both to render the 
 mission, as soon as possible, self-supporting, and to help to intro¬ 
 duce the arts of civilized life, and so develop that legitimate trade 
 of which Livingstone often spoke as one of the most powerful means 
 of repressing the abominable traffic in human flesh and blood. Dr 
 Stewart performed invaluable service in helping to choose the various 
 agents who were required to carry out the threefold object of the 
 Mission. The following were appointed :— 
 
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 Rev. Robert Laws, M.B., C.M., Medical Missionary. 
 
 Mr George Johnston, Carpenter. 
 
 Mr John M'Fadyen, Engineer and Blacksmith, 
 
 Mr Allan Simpson, Second Engineer. 
 
 Mr Alexander Riddell, Agriculturist. 
 
 Mr William Baker, Seaman. 
 
 All of these agents—one or two of whom are ready, in the first 
 instance, to act as teachers—in addition to their qualifications for 
 the special work to which they were designated, were, in the best 
 judgment of the Committee, men of deep piety and genuine mis¬ 
 sionary zeal. 
 
 Tub “Ilala.” 
 
 Departure of Mission Expedition. Arrival at Capetown. 
 
 Omitting various interesting details, we hasten to mention that all 
 was ready for the sailing of the expedition by the 21st of May. A 
 steam launch composed wholly of steel, intended for the navigation 
 of Lake Nyassa, and called “ Ilala,” from the place where Dr Living- 
 
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 stone died, had been constructed. Having been fully tested as to 
 its capacities, it was packed up in pieces, and shipped on board the 
 Royal Mail steamer for the Cape of Good Hope.* Two boats for 
 river navigation were also ready. A paper of instructions for the 
 Mission had been carefully drawn up, and agreed to by Mr Young, 
 Dr Laws, and the other members. (See Appendix, p. 18.) Dr 
 Duff and (in the necessary absence of the Rev. John Kay, Convener 
 of the Foreign Missions Committee of the Reformed Presbyterian 
 Church) Dr Goold proceeded to London for the purpose of giving 
 parting instructions, bidding the members of the expedition farewell, 
 and solemnly commending them to God. Dr Stewart had sailed a 
 short time before, for the purpose of making preparations for their 
 reception at the Cape. 
 
 The vessel safely arrived at the Cape of Good Hope; and a large 
 and influential meeting was held to welcome the mission staff, which 
 was attended by ministers of the various Protestant Churches, mem¬ 
 bers of the Legislature, and other men of high position. The public 
 prints stated that it was one of the most remarkable meetings which 
 had ever been witnessed in Capetown. 
 
 Mr Young of Kelly, with characteristic generosity, had offered to 
 pay the difference between a sailing vessel and a steamer, in order to 
 expedite progress from the Cape northwards, as it was very desirable 
 that the party should enter the Zambesi before the season was much 
 further advanced. No steamer, however, could be procured. 
 
 Recent Pbogress of the Expedition, and safe Arrival at 
 
 Lake Nyassa. 
 
 Of the successive stages of the progress of the expedition towards 
 its ultimate destination, with some of the leading incidents connected 
 therewith, the following statement was furnished by Dr Duff in his 
 address to the Commission of the General Assembly of the Free 
 Church of Scotland, on Wednesday, 1st March last:— 
 
 “ From Port Elizabeth, Algoa Bay, they started on the Gth July 
 in a vessel which had been hired by Dr Stewart to take them to the 
 most southerly or Kongoni mouth of the Zambesi. Landing there, 
 on the 23d July, the pieces of the steamer Ilala were put together 
 with the cheerfully proffered aid of the natives. Steaming up the 
 
 * The steamer having, after full trial, given much satisfaction, we think 
 it simply an act of justice to state that she was built by Messrs A"arrow 
 and Co., Isle of Dogs, Poplar, Loudon, E. 
 
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 Zambesi, they reached on the 16th August the Portuguese station of 
 Mazaro, not far from where the Kiver Shire from Lake iSTyassa enters 
 the Zambesi. Proceeding up the Lower Shire, they safely reached 
 the Murchison Cataracts on the 6th September. Taking the 
 steamer in pieces again, they got them carried up a rugged, road¬ 
 less, mountainous tract of forty or fifty miles, through long grass 
 and thorny thickets, in five days, under a blazing tropical sun, by 
 about 700 natives, reaching the Upper Shire on the 22d September. 
 Eeconstructing the steamer, they steamed along the river for a hun¬ 
 dred miles, and entered the great lake on the morning of the 12th 
 October, when the rising sun was gilding with his radiance the 
 western mountains; which they all joyfully hailed as a type and 
 emblem of the speedy rising of the Sun of Kighteousness on that 
 long-benighted region with healing in his wings. ‘ While at wor¬ 
 ship that morning,’ writes T)r Laws, ‘ the Hundredth Psalm 
 seemed to have a new beauty and depth of meaning in it as its 
 notes floated over the blue waves.’ Those who know best, from 
 actual experience, the vast difficulties of the undertaking, such as 
 Captain Wilson, Pi.N., Eev. Mr Waller, and Dr Stewart, writing 
 from Lovedale, are lost in unbounded admiration of the wonderful 
 precision, rapidity, and success with which the whole has been 
 accomplished, and can only ascribe it to the special help and 
 blessing'] of the God of providence and grace. To Him, verily, we 
 are indebted for raising up to us a commander like Mr Young. 
 —endowed with such a combination of pre-eminent qualifications 
 for the delicate and arduous task assigned to him. His high pro¬ 
 fessional skill, his indomitable energy, his resolute determination, 
 his ceaseless activity, his readiness of resource, his patient endurance, 
 his unwearied perseverance, his brave but kindly, generous Christian 
 heart—all, all powerfully contributed to inspire those under his 
 leadership with confidence, respect, and affection, and thus cement 
 them not only into a company, but into a brotherhood of perfect 
 harmony, mutual esteem, and effective co-operation. Where all the 
 members of the expedition did their duty so well, and up to the full 
 extent of their respective capabilities, it would be difficult, or even 
 unwise, to enter into minute distinctions. Bdt, next to the admir¬ 
 able commander himself, all would probably allow that Dr Laws 
 and Mr Johnstone were enabled to render the most signal services. 
 To God Almighty, who conferred on all their several capacities, as 
 well as the willingness to exert these capacities to the uttermost. 
 
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 under very trying and even perilous circumstances, be the praise and 
 the glory ! The providential mercies experienced in connection with 
 the really great achievement of having successfully launched the first 
 steamer that ever appeared on any of the sea-like lakes of Central 
 Africa, nearly two thousand feet above the sea—an achievement in 
 which the redoubted Livingstone himself failed—an achievement 
 which may yet be found to constitute an era in African eman¬ 
 cipation—ought not to be allowed to pass without some slight 
 notice. At Mazaro, the friendly ofiices of the Portuguese, of 
 whom, whether rightly or wrongly, so many hard things have 
 been said, as enemies and obstructives to all freedom and improve¬ 
 ment—whether owing to the timely intervention of the Portuguese 
 ambassador through our friend Mr Mackinnon, or Lord Derby’s 
 recommendation of the expedition to the Portuguese authorities, or 
 any other cause, is not known—must be regarded as a noteworthy 
 event. The appearance of so many native chiefs, with thousands of 
 their followers, on the banks of the Lower Shire, causing heaven’s 
 arches to ring with jubilant shouts of ‘ Our fathers, the English, 
 have come again ! ’ is a most noteworthy event. The fact of seven 
 hundred natives, through the promptings of their friendly chiefs, 
 acting as carriers for several successive days up steep, rugged, 
 grassy, thorny steeps, under a broiling sun, of weighty commodities, 
 without any of them disappearing, or an article found missing, is 
 surely a noteworthy event. The fact of having passed through one 
 of the most malarious and feverish regions even in tropical climes, 
 with only two or three having slight touches of fever, while the rest 
 were wholly unaffected, so that ultimately the whole arrived at the 
 lake hale and hearty, vigorous, and in perfect health, is a singularly 
 noteworthy event—an event so noteworthy as to appear to old 
 Africans all but incredible. The very kind reception and friendly 
 bearing of the great chief who owns the whole territory at the 
 southern extremity of the lake, and who freely and generously gave 
 permission to select any site for a settlement which might be 
 reckoned most eligible, is a noteworthy event. The consternation 
 and dismay of the murderous slave hunters at the sight of the 
 British flag at the masthead of the little steamer, coupled with the 
 rapturous joy of thousands of poor down-trodden natives at the 
 prospect thereby indicated of a coming deliverance from the fangs of 
 their merciless oppressors, may well be accounted a noteworthy 
 event and crowning mercy.” 
 
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 Reinforcement to the Mission. 
 
 It is very cheering to be able to intimate that a reinforcement to 
 the Livingstonia Mission is just about to leave these shores. The 
 party is composed as follows : — 
 
 The Rev. William Black, M.B., C.M. 
 
 Mr John Gunn, Agriculturist. 
 
 Mr Robert S. Ross, Engineer and Blacksmith. 
 
 Mr Archibald C. Miller, Weaver. 
 
 Dr Stewart of Lovedale has been requested to meet the party at 
 Algoa Bay, and accompany them to their destination. 
 
 Along with these friends will proceed the Mission party of the 
 Established Church, consisting of a Medical Missionary and five 
 artizans, who will also plant a settlement in the neighbourhood of 
 Lake Nyassa. (See p. 10.) 
 
 For farther details we have only to refer to the very interesting 
 letters and extract letters from Mr Young and Dr Laws, which are 
 given in the Appendix. While called on to render most hearty 
 thanks to God for the unspeakable mercies of the past, let fervent 
 prayer he offered up on behalf of the mission party, that their health 
 may be preserved, and a door, great and effectual, be opened up 
 through their instrumentality for the entrance of the everlasting 
 gospel into the hearts of myriads of Africa’s long-oppressed and down¬ 
 trodden children. 
 
 ALEXANDER DUFF, 
 
 Convener, Foreign Missions Committee of 
 the Free Church of Scotland. 
 
 J. MURRAY MITCHELL, 
 
 Secretary. 
 
 JOHN KAY, 
 
 Convener, Foreign Missions Committee of 
 the Reformed Presbyterian Church of 
 Scotland. 
 
 May 1876. 
 
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APPENDIX. 
 
 Speech by The Right Honourable Loed Monceieff, as Chairman of 
 Public Meeting in Edinburgh. 
 
 Loed Monceieff, who was received with applause, said—Ladies and 
 gentlemen, I have obeyed with great pleasure the request that was 
 made to me to preside over this very important and interesting meet¬ 
 ing. In doing so I have rather deviated from my ordinary practice, 
 hut I thought this was an extraordinary and unusually interesting 
 occasion. My reasons for doing so were two—in the first place, 
 the deep reverence and admiration which I feel for the memory 
 of that distinguished, energetic, and most faithful man, David 
 Livingstone. It seemed to me that it was a fitting thing that his 
 countrymen—and he was a countryman of ours, and we are all 
 proud of him—should take ste]3S for the purpose of perpetuating 
 the memory of so important and great a servant of his race ; a man 
 who so nobly defied difficulties which few men would even have 
 endeavoured to surmount, and who, I venture to say, not only here, 
 but in that country which he loved so well, and which he so faithfully 
 served, has left a memory that will be perpetuated to many generations. 
 I once had the pleasure of spending an evening in the company 
 of that remarkable man. It was before he became as distinguished 
 as he afterwards was ; it was after his return from his first journey 
 in Africa, and before he started upon his second and more re¬ 
 nowned expedition ; but I was greatly struck with the strong, manly, 
 noble simplicity of the man, his manifest fearlessness, his great devotion, 
 his single eye to the great work that he believed to be before him, and 
 the undaunted courage with which he looked forward to his further 
 labours. The impression he made on my mind on that occasion I have 
 never forgotten ; and when I came to read the last memorial of his 
 labours—I mean those two most intei’esting and absorbing volumes 
 that have been published since his death—his reputation in my eyes has 
 risen even higher than it then was. I think I never read a more 
 striking record of a great man’s life and a good man’s death ; for he 
 
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 had nothing of what 1 may call the more vulgar attributes of even 
 great and energetic men in such positions. He was courageous— 
 nothing daunted him ; he was kindly—nothing was too humble for 
 him to sympathize with ; he was devoted to his Master’s cause, yet 
 without affectation, without morbid sentiment; and in his own strong, 
 clear, manly way he has painted a picture in that diary of the race 
 among whom he spent his best days, and for whom his great effoi-ts 
 were exerted, which, I think, points the finger to future efforts for the 
 regeneration of a too-long-oppressed portion of humanity, and ought to 
 inspire every philanthropist, not only with the desire but with the 
 strong hope of at last loosing the fetters of the slave. I came here to 
 listen, not to speak, and the few words I have said on the memory of 
 Livingstone come from my heart; but I understand the proposal which 
 you are asked to support is that, in memory of that great traveller, 
 and in carrying out the views he had so sincerely and earnestly at 
 heart, some men of like mind with him should go out to a portion of 
 that land with which he was familiar, for the noble purpose not only 
 of carrying evangelical truth among the heathen of those parts, but of 
 doing, what no one can fail to sympathise with—founding a settlement, 
 which perchance may be a beginning, though but a small beginning, of 
 the extinction of that abominable traffic which is so vividly depicted in 
 Livingstone’s pages, and which is the curse of that otherwise glorious 
 land. I understand that on Lake Nyassa, about fifteen degrees south 
 of the Equator, and at the source of the Shire Eiver—if my geography is 
 right—it is proposed to establish a missionary station ; and some 
 gentlemen, as I have already mentioned, not unaccustomed to the 
 country, not unfamiliar with the people, who are acquainted with the 
 climate and social usages which prevail there, are willing to give their 
 services for the noble object of establishing an evangelical mission on 
 the banks of Lake Nyassa, with a view to assist not merely in bringing 
 the natives there to a knowledge of the truth, but also in putting down 
 the nefai’ious traffic in human flesh which has so disgraced that country. 
 I rejoice that I should have been allowed to-day to preside over a 
 meeting for so noble a purpose. I shall not detain you longer ; but 1 
 only wish to say, in conclusion, that this mission seems entirely in 
 unison with the spirit of Christian truth. We have heard a good deal 
 in late days of a new civilisation which thinks it is superior to the old 
 traditions of revelation, and which would invite the people of this 
 country, and I suppose the people of other countries, to go back from 
 our modern notions to what prevailed in sentiment some two thousand 
 years ago—to the principles of the old heathen philosophers. 1 am not 
 going to enlarge upon such a topic at the present moment ; but I 
 would say this—that I do not know any time, in any country, when 
 one single slave obtained his liberty from the preaching of such 
 
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 doctrines as these. Evangelical truth and personal freedom have gone 
 hand in hand for the last two thousand years. Wherever the former 
 is preached, the fetters fall from the limbs of the slave ; therefore I hail 
 here the prognostic of great events, and I am perfectly certain that if 
 ever the slave trade in Africa is to be destroyed, it will be when the 
 light of evangelical truth dawns on that country. 
 
 Speech at Public Meeting in Edinburgh by Rev. Horace Waller, 
 F.R.G.S., Rector of Twywell, Northampton, and Editor of 
 “ Livingstone's Last Journals." 
 
 Mr Waller tried to represent the feelings of Livingstone as he 
 wandered in Africa in regard to slavery. He thought it was a noble 
 thing to see a memorial to David Livingstone taking this form. No 
 other memorial would have been in accordance with the feelings of the 
 great traveller. No better tribute could be paid to his memory than 
 by following out the work he began. He pointed out the wisdom of 
 the proposal. Acts of civilisation must go before evangelization in 
 such countries. The languages of the people must be learnt, and the 
 force of a Christian example must be shewn before the preaching of the 
 lips could be effectual. He read extracts from a letter of Livingstone, 
 to shew that he had advocated the reaching of the inland country by 
 the rivers rather than by any other way. Along the caravan route the 
 distress of the journey was so great that the Arab slave-dealers were 
 willing to allow their slave gangs to melt away to the extent of one 
 half, if they could save the rest for the market. Scenes occurred of the 
 most horrible description. There was but one way to uproot this 
 slavery. Nothing but English influence would put a stop to it. 
 David Livingstone was dead. He foresaw long ago that he should fall 
 in Africa, but his death had given an impetus which was significant in 
 the highest degree. The cloak of David Livingstone had fallen on the 
 whole of Christian England. All eyes were fixed on Africa, where his 
 steps marked a noble purpose, and there was a wish to follow in them. 
 He rejoiced at this unusual crowding together of godly men to make a 
 united effort to help poor Africa. The large-hearted ness which dwelt 
 in David lavingstone had made him conscious, he had written in one of 
 his letters, of but one feeling of respect and love for both parties (the 
 Church of England and the Free Church) in regard to their African 
 work. There was room enough and to spare, he had written, for all 
 who wish to promote Christ’s kingdom in this region. They had, he 
 shewed, men representing them in Africa loved and respected by the 
 natives. Mr Waller added, in regard to the slave trade, that before 
 Livingstone died, the trade had had a blow at'its roots which had led 
 the upas tree to wither away on the coast. But the interior slave trade 
 
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 yet flourished. What the effect of a body of Englishmen on the Lake 
 Nyassa would be, he left them to imagine from the statements of what 
 the presence of a single man—David Livingstone—had had on the 
 slave-traders. Nothing was now talked of so much along the Arab 
 caravan routes as the action of the Englishmen on the coast. When 
 they saw Englishmen on the lake, under the English flag, he had no 
 doubt that a moral influence would be exerted upon them greater than 
 could be contemplated. He pointed to the assurance always expressed 
 by Dr Livingstone, that things would come right at last in regard to 
 Africa, and urged on the meeting to make this cause their own, and 
 raise up this most noble of all memorials to his memory—a temple of 
 peace and religion in Africa, in which the name of the Lord would be 
 heard in reverence and prayer. 
 
 Speech hj James White, Esq. of Overtoun, as Chairman of Public 
 
 Meeting in Glasgow. 
 
 Mr White said it was very gratifying to find so very large an 
 attendance at such a time of the day, manifesting the interest taken 
 in the object for which the meeting had been called. It was un¬ 
 necessary for him to say much in favour of that object. It was one 
 that must commend itself to every Christian mind, and to every one 
 interested in the propagation of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It was 
 specially worthy the consideration of Scotchmen. It was exceedingly 
 pleasing to find that in the east and in this metropolis in the west the 
 citizens had combined together with unusual alacrity and with great 
 unanimity in resolving to erect a monument of brass to commemorate 
 the name and the fame of David Livingstone; but he was glad 
 that in a country such as this Livingstone’s name was to be comme¬ 
 morated in more than a monument of brass or of bronze—that they 
 were about to erect a living monument commemorating his services to 
 this country and the civilised world. It had been resolved that a 
 mission should be set agoing in Central Africa. Its position was 
 intended to be at the southern part of Lake Nyassa, about 60 miles 
 from Murchison Falls, and about 300 miles from the sea, to which there 
 could be communication by means of flat boats for almost the whole 
 distance. The population of the district, as stated by Dr Livingstone 
 himself in one of his memoranda, was very dense, and it was hardly 
 necessary to remark that the men and women comprising it wei’e 
 bound neither by the ties of morality nor of Christianity; that they 
 were essentially slaves, body and soul, dying in hundreds, uncared for 
 and unprovided for; and unless the Christians in this country, who 
 derived so much from their Christianity, lent a helping hand to open 
 up such districts to the benefits of the Gospel, their name would 
 
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 become an empty sound. It became them to send a pioneer, at all 
 events, to pave the way for enriching the country with the truths of 
 the Bible. The enterprise, he added, was started in no sectarian 
 spirit, and the men sent out would be men who could be thoroughly 
 relied upon, and who knew how to use the influences with which they 
 were entrusted. He was glad to thiuk that the scheme had been 
 inaugurated under such good auspices, for from many sources they had 
 found countenance and promise of support to an extent far beyond 
 what was originally expected ; and he was sure that, as the merits of the 
 undertaking became better known and more widely dfflused, the interest 
 of all sections would be evinced, so that it might be carried out with 
 efiiciency and, he trusted, paramount success. 
 
 Speech bij Captain Wilson, R.N., at Public Meeting in Glasgow. 
 
 It was now thirteen years ago. Captain Wilson said, since he first met 
 Dr Stewart under peculiar circumstances. He then commanded a ship 
 on the East Coast of Africa, and was lying in the harbour of Mozam¬ 
 bique, when an English ship arrived, having on board the steamer built 
 for Dr Livingstone, in the hope that it might be placed on Lake 
 Nyassa. The vessel likewise brought a letter from his Commander-in- 
 Chief, directing any man-of-war on the coast to render every assistance. 
 He accordingly took the vessel down to the mouth of the Zambesi, 
 where they met Livingstone in the Pioneer. He thereafter spent two 
 mouths working in concert with Dr Livingstone, Dr Stewart having 
 started on a reconnaissance of the country to report as to the suitability 
 of its becoming a mission station. Mr E. Young, who was to act as the 
 advanced guard of the mission now projected, was then serving under 
 his command ; and as he believed him well qualified for the position, 
 he placed him in command of the Pioneer, in which post he remained 
 for two years. Mr Young subsequently went out at the head of the 
 Livingstone Search Expedition, and succeeded in the object for which 
 it was appointed. With reference to the object for which the present 
 meeting had been called, he considered that the mouth of the Zambesi 
 was a very suitable harbour by means of which to open up communi¬ 
 cation with Central Africa. He was for ten years on that station, and 
 he knew the district about Lake Nyassa was the most thickly populated 
 of any of the African continent. There were obvious reasons why this 
 should be. It was a great fresh-water basin, and consequently well 
 stocked with game, and it also contained a great quantity of fish, which 
 naturally attracted a large population. It was also the great point from 
 which the African slave trade was fed. In several of the slave dhows 
 he had captured, he found the shoulders of the slaves excoriated from 
 carrying ivory, and this trade in ivory was the kei-nel of the .slave 
 
trade. These slaves used to come from Portuguese territory, but now 
 they were drawn chiefly from the large population round about Lake 
 Nyassa. In going up the river with Dr Livingstone they passed 
 through large villages. The people were numerous and extremely 
 hospitable in a rough kind of way, and lived in a rude ijlenty. They 
 made iron implements and their own cotton cloth, and they understood 
 the use of indigo, and manufactured their own tobacco. All these 
 things shewed a certain amount of civilisation, and that they had 
 reached that point when they could be successfully dealt with by 
 Europeans. To ensure success of any kind in Africa, they must both 
 preach and be practical. Whatever they did, he would strongly recom¬ 
 mend that those who went out should be double-handed—men who 
 were able to work as well as preach. About the suitability of the site 
 there could be no two opinions. It had a great number of advantages. 
 As he had said, there was direct communication between Lake Nyassa and 
 the sea, and a vessel of three or four feet draught of water could at certain 
 seasons sail to the Zambesi, and at any season to within 60 miles of the 
 Murchison Falls. There was thus about 300 or 350 miles of navigable 
 liver, and the whole of the porterage above the Falls was only 36 miles, 
 or, calculating for the meauderiugs of the route, 70 miles; and that 
 was a small matter compared with the journey of 800 or 1000 miles 
 from Zanzibar to Nyassa. The site fixed on for the mission station was 
 on a peninsula in the Lake—ground belonging to two friendly chiefs— 
 and he did not think a better could have been selected. One thing should 
 be carefully attended to—namely, to maintain communication with the 
 sea. To secure this it would be necessary to have a vessel placed on 
 the lake, of say 10 or 15 tons burden. She should be fitted with a sail, 
 with an auxiliary screw for the purpose of being put under steam when 
 necessary. This vessel would be usefully employed in reaching various 
 points with their teachers and artificers, and it would also jDreveut the 
 possibility of their running out of food, as, if the crop failed in one 
 part, they could remove to another. Then a boat of certain dimensions 
 should be placed on the river, and it would be important to establish 
 an agency at Quilimane. In that way they would be able to keep up 
 communication with Mozambique, as he believed the steamers now 
 called at that port. But even failing that, he did not know any reason 
 why a boat with sufficient scantling should not make the voyage. The 
 distance was only 300 miles, and the weather was always fine except 
 in the hurricane season. With reference to Mr Young, he was a 
 proved man. He was two years with Dr Livingstone, and had he 
 not been a fit man, he would not have been there two months. He 
 sincerely believed there was not another man in England who would 
 perform the duty so well. In addition, as one result, it would break 
 the neck of the slave trade in that district, for the natives would very 
 
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 soon see that it would be to their advantage not to allow it to continue. 
 Speaking as an outsider, but as one who had a deep interest in the 
 African continent, he expressed his confidence in the scheme, and in 
 the men who were to be entrusted with the working of it out. Dr 
 Stewart was a man who was heart and soul in the work. He had seen 
 him return from the interior of Africa more like a “bag of bones” 
 than a man ; but the officers under his command, as well as himself, 
 put him down as the most practical man they had met upon that 
 station. 
 
 INSTKUCTIONS 
 
 To Lake Nyassa Mission Party from Foreign Missions Committee of 
 the Free Church, with concurrence of Committee of Reformed 
 Presbyterian Church. 
 
 It is in your capacity as members of a pioueer Missionary Expedi¬ 
 tion into hitherto unevaugelized regions that we now address you, and 
 the peculiar character of your Mission will sufficiently account for the 
 peculiarity of our instructions. 
 
 I.— Leadership. 
 
 Mr E. D. Young will be the leader of the Expedition from the day 
 of embarkation until the Expedition shall have arrived at Lake Nyassa, 
 and have launched the “ Ilala ” on the lake. 
 
 The Members of the Expedition are as follows :— 
 
 Mr E. D. Young. 
 
 Rev. Dr Robert Laws. 
 
 Mr Henry Henderson (Agent of the Established Church). 
 
 Mr George J ohnston, Carpentei*. 
 
 Mr JOHN Maceadyen, Engineer and Blacksmith. 
 
 Mr Allan Simpson, Second do. 
 
 Mr Alexander Riddel, Agriculturist. 
 
 Mr William Baker, Able Seaman. 
 
 Mr E. D. Young will have the management and control of all move¬ 
 ments of the Expedition. Following him and second in charge is Dr 
 Laws. All the members of the Expedition are required to render to 
 Mr Young, or whoever is in charge, that respect that is due to one 
 holding so important an office, and that obedience to orders which is 
 necessary for the safety of the Expedition. 
 
 When Dr Stewart arrives at Lake Nyassa, he shall have charge of 
 and full authority over all the operations of the Mission for the wLole 
 period he continues there. In all arrangements as to choosing and 
 
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 finally fixing or subsequently removing the site of the proposed station, 
 and negotiations with chiefs, the general management of the affairs of 
 the Mission will be in his hands ; while for the safe navigation of the 
 vessel on the lake Mr Young will have the entire control and respon¬ 
 sibility. Until Dr Stewart arrives, Mr Young will continue in charge. 
 
 II.— Site. 
 
 The following directions are given in reference to choosing the site— 
 even though the particular locality may be regarded as temporary. 
 Reasons may subsequently appear to make it advisable or necessary to 
 alter the position first chosen ; but, generally, the north-east side of the 
 promontory known as Cape Maclear is pointed out. 
 
 The immediate spot, if such can be found, should be a gravelly ridge 
 with sufficient slope to admit of rapid drainage after rain. It should 
 be as elevated as possible, without being inconveniently so, but within 
 sight of, and of comparatively easy access to, the harbour which may 
 be chosen below. 
 
 If such a position can be found, with a small area of a few acres of 
 level and fertile land close by, on which to form the first fields and 
 gardens, the spot may be regarded as suitable. It will be still more so, 
 if from any higher land above, a stream coming from a fountain, and 
 which is found runniug in the dry season, either passes by, or can be 
 made, through a detour of one or more miles, to pass by the station. 
 
 Regard should also be had as to the direction of the prevailing wind, 
 and no position should be chosen to the leeward of any swamp or 
 marshy land. Several of these points, however, can only be settled by 
 lengthened observation on the spot. 
 
 III.— Purchase of Land for Site. 
 
 It may or may not be advisable to attempt to purchase that at first. 
 That depends entirely on the temjjer of the chief and the people who 
 may have to be dealt with. They may or may not be willing to sell, 
 but if it can be done, the purchase should be made ; at all events it 
 should be clearly understood that the chief publicly “ gives ” the land 
 as long as it may be wanted. The quantity asked should not be large, 
 simply sufficient for a good-sized native village, wuth fields or gardens, 
 and with right of way to the cove or harbour where the boats lie. 
 
 IV.— Wages to Native Porters and Labourers. 
 
 This rate should be fixed at first at the very lowest amount foi 
 which porterage can be obtained. This direction should specially be 
 borne in mind in reference to the porterage over the Murchison 
 Cataracts, inasmuch as that first rate will continue for all time to come 
 to 1)6 the fixed rate, and as there will always be goods passing inward, 
 
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 if a high rate is paid now, the Mission must continue to pay that, or 
 perhaps even something higher. 
 
 It will be simply impossible to develop an industrial settlement with 
 high rates for passing into or out of the country on a short section of 
 the journey ; and it will be some time before transport by animals can 
 be established. 
 
 Taking the price of native labour in India and China and other 
 such countries into account, about sixpence a-day ought to be amply 
 sufficient. 
 
 'V.— Stores. 
 
 All stores for barter are to be regarded as money, and regular entries, 
 full and in detail, are to be kept of the different expenditures. These 
 details are required for guidance in the estimating of costs for future 
 operations of various kinds, as well as for rendering an account of the 
 different sums sent abroad. Fifteen thousand yards of calico, as well 
 as other barter goods, are sent out, and these, as well as aU other stores, 
 should be entered in a book, and the charge of the whole given to one 
 of the members of the staff, who is to be held responsible for the 
 expenditure of the goods, and also for their frequent inspection. A 
 Storekeeper shall be appointed by Mr Young. If the books are properly 
 kept, and a monthly balance made of stores expended to shew the 
 quantity on hand, it will be easy to discover beforehand what goods 
 are mostly wanted, and prevent the mission falling into the awkward 
 position of being entirely in want of some necessary articles. Many 
 months must elapse before an order sent home, or to the Cape, can be 
 executed. 
 
 VI.— Daily Journal. 
 
 For some considerable time—perhaps for two or three years—a 
 Daily Journal should be kept, recoi ding all matters of general interest, 
 and specially, records of daily temperature (three observations if 
 possible), atmospheric changes, the setting in of rains, the directions of 
 winds, the kind of daily employment engaged in by the staff, and 
 immediately following on this, a statement on tlie health of the party, 
 thus—“ All well; general health good, or excellent. Sick list—none ; ” 
 or, “ Sick list—one ; A, B. ill of fever, slight attack—or, prolonged 
 attack.” State facts only at first—give inferences after a time when 
 there appear to be sufficient data to explain any illness, as the connec¬ 
 tion between kind of weathei’, work and diet, or special exposure. This 
 work is committed to Dr Laws as part of his duty as Medical Officer, 
 and as second in charge at present. If the form of entry is to be 
 tabulated and abbreviated, the record can easily be made in a few 
 minutes. 
 
 It may appear as if undue importance w'ere being attached to this 
 part of the instructions, but it will probably be discovered that on 
 
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 correct information of this kind the welfare and continued success of 
 this Mission is greatly dependent. We know as yet too little of the 
 causes which influence health in that country. 
 
 The book is to be submitted to Mr Young’s inspection occasionally, 
 say once or twice a-week, and the substance of its contents to be com¬ 
 municated, from time to time, to the Committee of the Free Church for 
 the information and guidance of the Committees of the co-operating 
 Churches. 
 
 Without laying restriction on private communications of members of 
 the Expedition to their friends at home, details of the work and 
 progress of the Expedition itself are not to be published, except under 
 the revision and with the consent of the Committees. 
 
 VII.— First Efforts, after obtaining a Site. 
 
 The site having been obtained, the flrst thing to be done will be to 
 erect huts, round or square, and get all the goods, as well as the whole 
 party, safely housed before the rains. This should be done before any 
 attempt is made to sail round the Lake. There will be some difficulty 
 at that season in obtaining thatch, but greater efiforts must on that 
 account be made. To secure yourselves, so as to preserve health; to 
 secure the stores from injury, by frequent examination ; to gain the 
 confidence of the natives, by letting it be widely known what your real 
 objects are ; by encouraging them to bring various articles, chiefly 
 goods, for sale, and especially by buying from them as soon as possible 
 a certain number of goats, sheep, and cattle—if they are to be had—so 
 as to secure a small herd or flock, will be work enough for the first few 
 months. It will be of little use, however, buying these animals unless 
 they are well protected at night. 
 
 At the proper season the half of all the seeds taken should be sown 
 in a well-fenced garden. The first efforts in this direction are more by 
 way of experiment. Allow a portion of all the plants and vegetables to 
 come to seed for further use. 
 
 Your first, and constant and most imiiortant duty will be so to live 
 and act by attention to diet, to hours of work and rest, by avoidance of 
 undue or needless exposure, as to keep up a fair amount of health. 
 Nothing will do the enterprise more good at home than favourable 
 reports of all the members of the staff ; and nothing will do it so much 
 injury as a report that the general health is low, or that some have had 
 to be invalided and sent home. The attention of aU is recommended to 
 the Rev. Horace Waller’s pamphlet on the African Fever. 
 
 VIII.— Direct Missionary Work. 
 
 From the first this may be carried on in an indirect way by the 
 services of morning and evening worship, which should be steadily kept 
 
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 up by the party unitedly, as well as the more special services on a 
 simple form on Sundays at first. So far as you can trust your inter¬ 
 preters, you should lose no time in making known to the natives the 
 grand leading object of your Mission, which is the enlightenment of 
 their minds, the salvation of their souls, and, as the sure consequent of 
 ail this, the elevation of their character and the improvement of their 
 general condition, individual and social. With this view you may 
 begin early to communicate the simple truths of the Bible whenever 
 you have an opportunity ; although for a lengthened period the most 
 efiPective way by which the gospel can be understood by the natives will 
 . be through your holy characters and consistent lives. At first, how¬ 
 ever, your efforts should be very specially directed to the acquisition of 
 the language. 
 
 The regular commencement of school work for teaching the young is 
 not of absolute necessity at first, but some effort to gather the children 
 for an hour a-day to begin with should not be too long delayed ; nor 
 need there be any discouragement if the attendance is exceedingly 
 irregular, and if there should not be for some considerable time any 
 right comprehension on the part of the people of what is really intended 
 to be done. The arrangements of this may be left to Dr Laws. 
 
 IX.— Active Interference with the Slave Trade. 
 
 On this difficult question no rule can be laid down, except this, which 
 is absolute, and to he scrupulously observed by all the members of the party, 
 that active interference by force initiated on your side is in no case, and on 
 no account whatever, to he resorted to. By shewing the people in kindly 
 loving, conciliatory ways, that they are acting against their own 
 interests, and destroying themselves in carrying on this trade, more 
 will be gained in the long run, than by any armed interference with 
 Arab caravans. 
 
 It should never be forgotten that the first shot which is fired in any 
 hostilities against Arab or native slave-dealers will do more to paralyse 
 the varied efforts of the members of the expedition than any temporary 
 success in the liberation of slaves can possibly counterbalance. Any 
 act of this kind will also immediately suiTound the Mission with an 
 atmosphere of insecurity which years will not disperse. It will make 
 always difficult, and sometimes dangerous, those short journeys, in all 
 directions round the station, which should be undertaken from time to 
 time, in order to become acquainted with the people and gain their 
 confidence, and from which, if they are wisely arranged, much good is 
 expected. It will take away the minds of all the staff from that 
 peaceful daily labour by which alone the settlement will be firmly 
 established in the land ; and on the mind of the public in this country 
 
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 the effects arising from a report of any hostile encounter will be very 
 disastrous as regards the future support of the Mission. 
 
 The only circumstances in which fire-arms can be justifiably used 
 will be in self-defence, or in case of actual attack, which is scarcely likely 
 to happen ; but if this should occur, you will of course be bound to 
 defend yourselves. But under all circumstances of this nature, it will 
 be better to try the effect of conciliation, foibearance, and patient 
 endurance to the uttermost, and even to retire for a time. Livingstone’s 
 journals will be found to supply some excellent examples of what is 
 here indicated. 
 
 X.— General Attitude towards the Natives. 
 
 Those who are new to the country, and inexperienced as regards the 
 native people, should remember that they require much explanation in 
 all dealings with them ; that patience is never thrown away upon them ; 
 that they fear and respect a man who, under the discipline of self- 
 control, is habitually quiet and firm in his demeanour, and who never 
 loses his temper. If you can habitually thus act, you will gain their 
 esteem. In no case break your word to them, even though you have 
 made a mistake in a bargain, or in promising too much on any pay¬ 
 ment. On the other hand, in no case let them, through unguardedness 
 or want of proper inquiry on your part, overreach you. At all times 
 make bargains and agreements perfectly clear. Counsel peace always 
 between tribes and neighbours, and in case of any tribal difficulty do 
 not take any side, if you can possibly avoid taking it; and be in no 
 hurry to do so. Never believe the first report that goes through the 
 country, until further inquiry make the truth plain ; and in dealing 
 both with individuals and with the people assembled in the villages, 
 when you enter them on any business, remember that simple acts of 
 kindness and courtesy are never thrown away, even on a savage people. 
 
 XI.— Minor Suggestions. 
 
 1. The health of the party will be greatly promoted by any well- 
 continued system of rational recreation, in the shape of entertainments 
 to the native people, or occasional formal holidays among the staff 
 themselves. This suggestion will be difficult to carry out, but it may 
 be productive of good, and, if properly done, will tend to dissipate little 
 differences, coldness, or quarrels that may arise among the members 
 of the staff. Kemember and turn to practical account Dr Kane’s ex¬ 
 perience on the Arctic regions. Your position at first will be nearly as 
 isolated from Europeans, with the opposite extreme of temperature. 
 
 2. Hunting .—No restrictions are of course imposed, except that you 
 do not neglect your regular work, and do not expose your lives to 
 unnecessary dangers ; but a suggestion may not be unnecessary. The 
 
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 tendency of many when first entering such a region as the Zambesi, is 
 to fire at animals of all kinds which may come across one’s path. A 
 reckless waste of life is thus occasioned, and many harmless creatures 
 are thus wantonly destroyed. All animals fit for food are fair game, 
 and all noxious animals and beasts of prey are so also. But in the 
 pursuit of these, especially of harmless animals for food, you should 
 always take into account the distance at which you aim, and also the 
 kind of weapon which you have at hand to use. To fire at an animal 
 at a very great distance, on the bare chance of hitting it in some part 
 not vital, is often to inflict needless cruelty on God’s creatures. They 
 are His, and He cares for them. In the circumstance just mentioned, 
 the wounded animal generally escapes only to drag out a miserable life, 
 while no real advantage is gained. Ammunition is only thrown away. 
 The same remark applies to using a single light weapon against very 
 large animals. 
 
 XII.— Conclusion. 
 
 In all the different stages of this work, the Committee hope and 
 believe that each of the members of the staff will bear in mind that 
 both the present and ultimate objects of the Mission are very different 
 from those of any scientific, commercial, or exploring expedition. The 
 spirit and the methods which give success in the latter are very different 
 from those necessary to secure real and permanent success in the 
 former. 
 
 Difficulties may and will probably arise, and services be required, 
 which cannot at present be foreseen. In all these, resist the tendency 
 to dissatisfaction and division which is apt to arise, and which, when it 
 takes possession of you, will rob you of half your strength. Live in 
 brotherly affection and harmony among yourselves ; and strive to over¬ 
 come slight estrangements of feeling. In order to this, bear ever in 
 mind the Divine exhortation, “ Love one another with a pure heart 
 fervently.” Beware of rash steps and of resolutions formed in temper, 
 or in the irritability and excitement of brain which precedes an attack 
 of fever generally by one day, or after the attack has set in. Beware 
 equally of the first speck or germ of doubt which may appear in your 
 mind as to your calling in God’s providence to this work. You are in 
 it for the time being. Don’t think of failure as probable, for that is 
 the beginning of defeat. Think, however, of the great issues that are 
 dependent on your success, and how disastrous to the cause of 
 Christianity any failure would be. It should never be forgotten that 
 the success of such a Mission is to be judged of in the light of great 
 ultimate and permanent results, and not with reference to any 
 adventurous or exciting incidents in connection with its origin and 
 progress. 
 
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 Look to God in all your difficulties. Put your trust in Him, while 
 at the same time you relax no effort which experience or wisdom or 
 resolution may suggest. Be much in prayer, individually by yourselves 
 and socially with one another. Remember the special promise to a 
 genuine co-partnery in prayer—“ If two of you shall agree on earth as 
 touching anything they shall ask, it shall be done for them.” Seek 
 God’s guidance, protection, and blessing on yourselve.s, your associates, 
 and your work. Believingly expect to receive all these in some form 
 or another, if you sincerely ask them, and leave the re.sult, with filial 
 confidence, in your Heavenly Father’s hands. And one of the surest 
 ways of realising all this, and much more, is ever to keep stedfastly in 
 view the grand paramount object of your arduous but noble Mission, 
 which is to prepare the way for bringing the gospel of grace and salva¬ 
 tion, through the finished work and mediation of God’s Eternal Son 
 and the work of His Holy Spirit, effectively to bear on the souls of the 
 sons and daughters of poor benighted Africa—who, lost like all the 
 world besides in the wreck and ruin of the fall, have for ages been made 
 to groan under evils and oppressions peculiarly their own. 
 
 “And now, brethren, farewell. We commend you to God, and to 
 the word of His grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you 
 an inheritance among them that are sanctified. Be perfect, be of good 
 comfort ; be of one mind, live in peace ; and the God of love and peace 
 shall be with you.” “The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love 
 of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost be with you all. 
 Amen.” 
 
 ALEX. DUFF, ) ^ 
 
 JOHN KAY, \ 
 
 Letter from Rev. Dr Laws. 
 
 {To the Secretm'y of the Foreign Missions Committee of the Free Church 
 
 of Scotland.) 
 
 German Schooner Harah, Kongoni, 
 Mouth of the Zambe.si, 9th August 1875. 
 
 Mr Young is busy getting things packed up, and asks me to report 
 our progress since he last wrote to you. 
 
 Leaving Algoa Bay at 6.30 a.m., 6th July, after a safe though some¬ 
 what lengthy voyage we crossed the bar of the Kongoni on the afternoon 
 of 23d July. During the voyage the weather was rather variable ; at 
 
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 times quite calm, on other occasions squally. On the 13th we were 
 caught by a tornado, but as, providentially, it came astern, we sus¬ 
 tained no further damage than the snapping of the chain which 
 supported our square sail. 
 
 For three days before landing, contrary to all expectation, the rain 
 poured in torrents, and squalls came from every quarter. On the 
 morning of the 23d we weighed anchor, hoping to be able to cross the 
 bar; but a fog rolling across the mouth of the river, we had to wait 
 till the rising tide gave us nine feet of water, and then with a slight 
 bump we sailed to a good anchorage by the river’s bank. 
 
 There is no native village at the mouth of the river now ; but in the 
 evening three men appeared. Palling ashore, we received from them 
 a warm welcome, expressed by clapping their hands. Next day, 
 several others appeared, and one of the Portuguese who lived in the 
 neighbourhood came to pay us a visit, attended by three or four 
 slaves. A miserable barefooted creature he appeared, but ready at 
 any moment to bully his slaves, as if they were not human beings as 
 well as himself. 
 
 While walking along the shore, looking for a suitable place to build 
 our boat, a human skull and several other bones were found lying a 
 little above high-water mark. This, and the sight of several half- 
 starved moving skeletons, made one sigh that better days may soon 
 come for benighted Africa. 
 
 Saturday and Monday were spent in erecting a shed under which 
 we might work at our little vessel, and be protected from the sun’s 
 rays. On the evening of Monday her keel was laid, and on the 
 Tuesday of the following week the “Ilala” was successfully launched on 
 the waters of the Kongoni. On Saturday we had up steam, and found 
 everything go satisfactorily. To-day we intend to start on our j ourney 
 up the river. From the above, you may readily understand that we 
 have been anything but idle. 
 
 As a rule, we found the natives intelligent, able, and ready to work. 
 Most of them are tall, handsome, fair-haired men, but disfigure them¬ 
 selves by tattooing their backs and breasts, their faces also at times 
 sharing in their adornment. The appearance presented is as if a 
 number of split-peas were strewn beneath the skin. Many of them 
 came long distances in their canoes to work for us, and stayed several 
 days, sleeping all night round their fires rolled in their grass mats. 
 In the morning we went ashore at sunrise, and had them set to work, 
 writing down each man’s name on a piece of paper, and chalking a 
 corresponding number on his back, one or two being so greasy that the 
 chalk could leave no traces on their skin. Altogether we like the 
 natives very much, and find them honest and easily managed by firm¬ 
 ness and patience combined. Those who have been under the influence 
 
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 of the Portuguese seem dowu-trodden, cunning, and want the fine open 
 countenance which characterizes most of the others. On the 30th July 
 Messrs Jleuderson, Baker, Boquito, and a native crew, went up in the 
 “ Ethiop ”—our largest beautiful teak boat—to Mazaro, taking with 
 them a cargo of provisions, &c. They found the Portuguese there 
 quite ignorant of our coming, but were received and treated courteously 
 by the commandant, as also by the brother-in-law of Seuhor Jose 
 Nunes of Quillimane. They hired four canoes to come down for more 
 of our goods, which have since arrived, been loaded, and are now on 
 their way up the river. Since his return William Baker has had a 
 slight attack of fever, but is now convalescent. The health of the rest 
 of the party is good, excepting slight colds. That the “ Ilala ” may 
 draw as little water as possible, we shall send another boat’s load to 
 Mazaro, and leave one, which can be brought up after us. There, at 
 least, our things will be in comparative safety, ninety miles nearer us 
 than if left at the mouth of the river. 
 
 From Captain Felix Basper, ahd Henry Schultze, the mate of the 
 “ Harah,” we have received every kindness, both trying to make us as 
 comfortable as possible on the voyage, and doing everytliing they could 
 to further our interests since our arrival here. To us it adds another 
 pleasing feature of catholicity to our mission, in the flag of Germany 
 rendering its aid in sending the gospel to the interior of Africa. 
 
 We shall report again from Mazaro ere finally plunging into the 
 wilds beyond. Furtlier details may be given when more time can be 
 spared than is possible just now, with so much lying at our hands to 
 perform. 
 
 Letter from Mr E. D. Young, R.N. 
 
 {To the Secretary of the Foreign Missions Committee.) 
 
 Zambesi PiIvee, Mazaeo, 17th August 1875. 
 
 We arrived here quite safe and well yesterday, after a very difficult 
 journey up, owing to the river being so low. To-day we are taking in 
 fuel, and hope to start for the Shire to-morrow. The health of the 
 party is exceedingly good—in fact, we have not had time as yet to think 
 of fever. I intend to keep going as fast as I can, aiul hope to be at the 
 Cataracts [Murchison Eapids] in a week from this. My seaman has 
 been absent in one of the boats conveying provisions up, so more woik 
 has come to my sliare than I ever had to do before, and already I am 
 getting very gray ; but I trust God will sjxare me to carry out this 
 great and noble work. We had a sad disaster coming up. The steamer 
 was ashore on a sandbank, so I told the man in charge of the boat I had 
 
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 iu tow to proceed on. After going some distance he made sail, but a 
 squall overtaking him, he neglected to lower the sail in time ; the 
 consequence was she capsized, and one, if not two, of the native crew 
 was drowned, in addition to which the greater part of our personal 
 luggage was lost. I myself have lost everything in the shape of clothes, 
 also many private things I was taking out from friends to natives on 
 the lake. I don’t at present know how to get more, so'I suppose I will 
 have to make a suit out of my blanket to serve me day and night. I 
 am glad to say none of the Mission stores were lost. I shall feel the 
 loss of my boots and socks most ; but there are worse things happen 
 at sea, is the old saying. I am happy to tell you that the country 
 appears very quiet, not even a rumour of war. 
 
 The Portuguese official here is very civil and obliging. He has just 
 been on board to ask me to go and shoot a lion that has carried off four 
 natives. I have told him I had not time to go so far. I told him to 
 send his soldiers. He says they are all afraid ; still he wishes me to go 
 single-handed ; so much for the warriors out here. If I have time I 
 will oblige him to-night if he comes near. 
 
 Please excuse my writing much now, as I have so much to do and 
 arrange before starting in the morning. We have a good name here, 
 so there is no difficulty iu getting natives for a crew. Several who 
 knew me years ago are going with me, so I am not discouraged in the 
 least of ultimately succeeding. Our boats will not carry a quarter of 
 our stores, so I have been obliged to hire canoes, but the expense will 
 not be very great; at all events, 1 have done the best I could under the 
 circumstances. I will send the boats down from the Cataracts here for 
 stores, when I will report further progress. 
 
 Letter from Mr E. D. Young, R.N. 
 
 (To the Secretary of the Foreign Missions Committee.) 
 
 Upper Shire, above Murchison Cataracts, 
 22d September 1875. 
 
 It is with very great pleasui'e that I advise you, for the information of 
 the Committee, that I arrived here to-day with the last of 650 carriers, 
 conveying the whole of the steamer’s engines and boiler, and all the stores 
 we shall require for some time. After writing you from Masaro, on the 
 Zambesi, we were very much delayed owing to the rivers being so low. 
 Several times we had to clear the “ Ilala” to the mere shell to get her 
 over and through the sandbanks. Day and night often we were at work. 
 The Morambala marsh is now a vast lake, owing to the Zambesi altering 
 its course, and we had great difficulty in finding a pa.ssage through. 
 
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 Ou ueariug the Makololo villages on the Lower Shire, we were met by 
 canoes bringing us presents of food and fuel for the steamer, and on 
 our arrival at the small villages nothing could exceed the joy of the 
 natives when they knew who we were. Thousands lined the banks 
 clapping their hands, dancing and singing, saying their fathers the 
 English had come back to them. I at once assembled the chiefs, who are 
 all Makololo, and informed them of the object of our mission. They all 
 appeared very grateful, and promised to assist us, and so they have, for 
 without their help we could not in so short a time have got together so 
 many carriers and transported everything here. 
 
 We arrived at the head of the Lower Shire on the 6th inst., and 
 commenced to take the boat to pieces, pack goods, and employ carriers, 
 and arrived to-day with the last of the goods, after a sixteen miles’ 
 walk. The journey was very fatiguing and the heat oppresive, and 
 even to me, who have done the journey before, appears wonderful how 
 the poor natives carried their heavy loads across the mountains of rock 
 and sand, and through thick bush. Some of them came a distance of 
 forty miles to be employed, then to walk with a load of steel not less 
 than sixty pounds, find themselves in provisions, and now to return the 
 same distance, for doing which I paid each man six yards of calico ! So 
 I hope your Committee will not think I have overpaid them. I myself 
 am pretty well, but at present am nearly done up with the journey, and 
 attending to the carriers. Till our arrival here, the whole of the party 
 enjoyed good health. Now three have a slight touch of fever, but no 
 doubt they will soon get over it. Under God’s blessing we shall, I trust, 
 steam into Nyassa in about fourteen days. Hitherto your mission has 
 met with great success, considering the many difficulties we had to 
 contend with. 
 
 The Zambesi men whom I brought with me are now eager to return 
 to-night, so I am obliged to send this hurried report. There are no 
 natives hereabouts, but the Lower Shire is now thickly inhabited for 
 forty miles, and all eager to be taught. They love and reverence the 
 very name of the English. We have received no letters or news from 
 England since leaving Algoa Bay, but are endeavouring to get natives 
 from the Zambesi to bring up dispatches as soon as they arrive. The 
 expense will be trifling. There is no war or even a rumour of war in 
 the country, as far as we have been able to learn. Everything appears 
 peaceful and quiet. Unfortunately, we have no natives here to assist us 
 up, so must get on as quickly as possible ourselves. As I have walked 
 over a difficult part to-day, I am sure you will excuse my writing more 
 this time. I will endeavour to report again as quickly as possible. 
 The native carriers cannot be persuaded to stop longer. 
 
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 Letter from Rev. Dr Laws. 
 
 {To a Friend at Home.) 
 
 Cape Maclear, Lake Nyassa, 
 19th October 1875. 
 
 Another stage of our journey has been reached, and for the time 
 being, I suppose I may say Livingstonia is begun, though at present a 
 piece of canvass stretched between two trees, forming a sort of tent, is 
 all that stands for the future city of that name. I do not say that it 
 will be on this particular spot, or on any within thirty miles of it, but, 
 till this rainy season is over, this is fixed on as our place of abode. 
 
 I am glad to say only one more of our party had fever—Baker our sea¬ 
 man, And since the recovery of the others, good health has been the order 
 of the day. Several days I felt feeble enough, and my companions said I 
 looked pale enough, as also did Mr Young and Mr Johnston ; but the 
 work had to be done, and we stuck to it. We did not get all the 
 rivettiug done that was intended, because it would have taken so much 
 time, and kept us so long amid the horrid mai-sh ; but the keel we 
 rivetted from stem to stern, and the plates below the engine-room. 
 
 On Wednesday, 6th October, the “ Ilala” was launched once more, after 
 her name had been well painted on her bows. “ God speed you !” said 
 Mr Young, and a hearty Amen was echoed by the whole of us. On the 
 morning of the 8th we were all on board, and began our journey up the 
 river. That day we were apprehensive our boiler would prove a failure, 
 but stopping early we got some alterations made on the draught of the 
 furnace, and now, not having a current of great strength to contend 
 with, we can go as fast as we require with one. 
 
 On our way up we passed through some of the grandest scenery I 
 have ever beheld. Hills towering, some of them 2000 to 3000 feet 
 above sea level, while the river wound its way through a level plain, 
 now quite dry, but in the rainy season covered with water. At some 
 places we found villages of from 20 to 200 inhabitants ; and again we 
 might steam along for thirty or forty miles without seeing a human face. 
 Along these untenanted plains game is very abundant. A herd of thirty 
 or forty bucks, the size of young calves, was by no means rare, and I 
 have seen one herd numbering at least 500. When fired at, they will 
 sometimes stand and stare till two or three shots have been sent among 
 them, and then take to their heels fast enough. I saw three groups of 
 elephants, four, six, and eight in number ; while a little farther on we 
 passed an enormous “ rogue ” with tusks like a man’s leg. 
 
 On 11th October, we steamed through Lake Pamolombi, the northern 
 and western sides of which are studded with villages, but having usually 
 
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 marshy reeds rouud them. Entering the Shire again at the northern 
 end of Lake Pamolombi, we passed three or four large villages, and then 
 anchored for the day opposite the village of MPonda or Chimponda, 
 as the natives call him. He was very kind to Dr Livingstone, and, as 
 his territory extended up to the lake, it was quite necessary we should 
 be on friendly terms with him. Here we found two slave-trading 
 Arabs, who, I suspect, were far from relishing our arrival ; and, as Mr 
 Young wore his uniform cap on going ashore, they noticed it, and 
 evidently knew the badge very well. The old chief appeared quite 
 friendly, but could not be persuaded to come on board. He spread a 
 mat for us to sit on, but our legs not being quite so flexible as theirs, 
 we were supplied with greasy pillows as stools. We sat under the 
 protecting eaves of his large house, surrounded by scores of his people, 
 while a house in front of us was occupied by his wives, at least 30 or 
 40 in number, who, on their knees, were looking across at the white 
 strangers ; while the Arabs, by and by, came along to bid us good 
 morning, one carrying a large broad-bladed spear, the other a sword 
 which he evidently wished us to take notice of, and which we certainly 
 were not afraid of. 
 
 We told MPonda our errand, that we wished to settle on the lake, 
 and asked him how far his territory extended. We And it goes all 
 round Cape Maclear, right over to the western side, on which he has 
 two villages. At his villages we found Wakotani, a boy who had been 
 servant to Bishop Mackenzie, then educated at Bombay, and had gone 
 back with Dr Livingstone to MPonda’s, where he has now, I am sorry 
 to say, got two wives, though baptised as a Christian. MPonda 
 was presented by us with a coloured blanket and quilt, two or three 
 shirts, some cloth, beads, and a gun. He gave us liberty to settle on his 
 land and sent Wakotani (his brother-in-law) and another man to help 
 us in choosing a spot. Two of our interpreters were ashore all night, 
 and it was evident the Arabs wished to checkmate us, and had been 
 telling stories, that we were come to take MPonda’s land, &c. These 
 stories were partly, at least, counteracted by our boys, but still they 
 will be a great annoyance to us. Some eight or ten of these Arabs are 
 making a circuit round a large territory at present to procure slaves, 
 and will carry them across the lake in their dhows. As we left next 
 morning we shewed them a little what our steamer could do in the 
 way of speed, and, with the British ensign flying at her peak, she looked 
 well indeed. Passing the northern end of the village, which may con¬ 
 tain say 3000 or 4000 people, we saw two slaves standing with the yoke 
 on their neck, and their hands tied behind them. It was a sight which 
 made my blood boil within me. 
 
 On the eastern coast of Cape Maclear we examined several little 
 bays and apparent harbours, but none were quite satisfactory. Towards 
 
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 evening we rounded the cape, a huge rocky hill, and anchored in a bay 
 opposite the western of the two islands you see on the map. In the 
 evening we had a walk ashore. There is a large plain some four miles 
 long, and a valley running southward.s between the hills, while we 
 have a beautiful view of the lake. Next five days, after having got 
 wood, we went round the western side of the lake as far north as 
 Benje Island, then across the lake, and reached the east coast at a more 
 northerly point than had been previously seen by any white man ; then 
 down its eastern side till opposite the lake, and across to Cape Maclear. 
 When we reached a point on the east coast nearly opposite where it is, 
 we passed the sites whei'e three large villages formerly stood, and 
 another where the Arabs at one time had a settlement, and where Mr 
 Young saw several large sheds full of slaves when he was here last 
 time. They and the inhabitants of the next village had been diiven 
 out by war. 
 
 We are in a commanding position to begin with, because, with our 
 steamer at hand, we occupy the centre of a circle of some thirty to forty 
 miles radius, with six or eight large villages from which we can obtain 
 supplies, and to whom I hope we shall yet be able to communicate the 
 blessings of the Gospel of Peace. 
 
 I suppose I shall have to learn two languages here, as both Menganja 
 and Ajawa are spoken within range of our steamer, but I should like 
 to know more of the coast and its people before I can say which is of 
 most importance. 
 
 Letter from Mr E. D. Young, E.N. 
 
 {To the Secretary of the Foreign Missions Committee.) 
 
 Lake Nvassa, 24 th October 1875. 
 
 I have the honour to report, for the information of the Committee, 
 that the steamer “ Ilala” was successfully launched on the 6th inst., and 
 started for Nyassa on the 8th, which was reached on the 12th. The 
 steamer is quite a success—sails well, and steams seven knots with the 
 one boiler. Our jDarty are all quite well, and in good spirits. 
 
 Before entering Lake Nyassa, I called on the powerful chief MPonda, 
 and informed him of the object of our mission. He appeared very 
 pleased, and at once gave us permission to settle on any part of his 
 land. He is owner of the whole of the Cape Maclear peninsula. 
 
 We took a running survey of the whole coast with very fine weather, 
 and although there are many delightful spots fit for a settlement, none 
 offers sufficient protection to the steamer except a beautiful bay at Cape 
 Maclear, where we have decided to settle for the time ; and I have left 
 
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 Dr Laws with three of our party aud some negroes to build houses, 
 while I have come dowu here (Kiver Shire, Upper) to fetch the remainder 
 of our stores, I have now all on board, and start again for Nyassa to¬ 
 morrow. I called on MPonda on our way down, and he promised to 
 send a party of negroes up to build houses. He is the most powerful 
 chief in the Nyassa district, and very favourably disposed towards the 
 English, and wishes me to take him home with me. At his place there 
 were several Arabs with a great number of slaves bound to the coast, 1 
 saw them viewing me through the crowd of negroes when I landed, and 
 called them. They were very much frightened, and were astonished 
 beyond measure to see a steamer up there, aud no doubt think their 
 slaving days are ended. I took a cruise round the lower end of the 
 lake to look out for a good harbour, when I observed a slave dhow. 
 We soon came up with her, and as soon as I hoisted the English flag 
 they lowered their sail, and said, when I went on board, they had no 
 slaves in ; neither had they, but she was bound for a cargo. The 
 owner was on board. He was from Zanzibar, and could speak a little 
 English. He talks of getting rid of his dhow, no doubt thinking if the 
 English are come she will be of no further use. There are five of them 
 sailing on the lake carrying slaves across. To stop the slave-trade there 
 is a very easy matter. MPonda, for a few pieces of calico, will not 
 permit slaves to pass the south end of the lake and the river. The 
 Mizitu are in possession of the northern coast. As far as I can gather, 
 20,000 slaves are conveyed across annually. 
 
 We have received no news from England since leaving the Cape. 
 
 I must now honestly confess to the Committee that, as far as I can 
 judge, the Mission thus far is quite a success, God be praised, for he 
 has wonderfully prospered us. I am myself quite well, and up to work 
 but worn down to a mere part of my former self with overwork ; but 
 it has kept the fever away, and I shall now no doubt soon gain flesh. 
 On Nyassa the climate is delightful; the beautiful sea-breeze quite 
 braces you up. We have everything we desire or require out here in 
 the shape of provisions and stores for the present, but shall require oil 
 for the engines soon. I don’t know of a single complaint or hitch of 
 any sort with any of the party. Whether or not, I have done my best 
 for the party and the Mission in general; and I trust the Committee will 
 approve of what has been done. But, under God’s blessing, I look for 
 greater things yet; that is, to see the longing desire of my heart accom¬ 
 plished—the ending of the cursed slave-trade in this region. I write 
 this letter in great haste, and send it down by a faithful negro who was 
 formerly in my service, and who has promised to take it 400 miles even 
 on foot to Masaro, on the Zambesi, for me. Let not the people of 
 Scotland call them savages. No; they are good, kind, honest people 
 loving the very name of the English, and only desirous of being taught. 
 
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 Surely this is the country for Missions. Here we are on a great and 
 fine inland sea, with 700 miles of coast, which you can get to fi'om the 
 sea-coast in three weeks, now that communication is established. On 
 the Lower Shire there are thousands and thousands of natives implor¬ 
 ing the English to come to them, so there is no risk of hostilities from 
 them. With the two boilers on board, the vessel was top-heavy ; but, 
 fitted with one, as my very great friend Mr Young of Kelly suggested, 
 she is a fine sea-boat, as I proved on Nyassa in a gale of wind. Please 
 inform the Committee that I am still full of zeal for the cause of the 
 Mission, and am still their most humble and obedient servant. 
 
 Letter from Mr E. D. Young, K.N. 
 
 (To the Secretary of the Foreign Missions Committee.) 
 
 Lake Nyassa, ISth February 1876. 
 
 I have the honour and very great pleasure of reporting favourably 
 of our mission for the information of the committee. 
 
 I informed you of our safe arrival here, and of the place where we 
 have settled, near Cape Maclear. Since then nothing has happened to 
 mar the progress of the mission. We have made enemies of none, and 
 friends of all. But I must begin by telling you that we succeeded in 
 getting safely housed before the rains began, and that the whole of the 
 party are in good health. Some have had slight attacks of fever, but 
 soon got over it. I myself suffered rather severely after the excitement 
 of the journey was over ; and I thought I should have been obliged to 
 return home at once, but our Heavenly Father thought fit to restore 
 me to health again, and to work on, I trust, for His glory and for the 
 good of these poor down-trodden people. 
 
 After the goods w’ere stored here, and we were housed and everything 
 was in perfect safety, I took four of our party in December and went 
 round the lake to let the people know of our arrival, and to see what 
 the country was like. We found that our arrival was known far 
 and wide, and that the Arabs wei’e so terrified that no slaves were con¬ 
 veyed across for a whole month. The common people are rejoiced that 
 we are come, but the poor, miserable, bloodthirsty slave-drivers tremble 
 at our very presence. We found the lake to be much larger than Dr 
 Livingstone thought ; the north end extends 9° 20" south latitude, and 
 the lake has a coast of about 800 miles. There are many delightful 
 spots, and several nice islands. At the north-east end there is a range 
 of mountains extending for 100 miles, and ranging from 10,000 to 
 12,000 feet above the lake. The water is very deep ; at several places 
 we could not get bottom with 100 fathoms of line wuthin the .same 
 
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 distance from the land. There is not the same dense population along 
 the shores as formerly, vast numbers being carried off by the slavers. 
 For many miles along the north-east end we saw the sites of many 
 villages, and the ground strewed with thousands of skeletons. The 
 remnant that escaped are living in villages built on piles in 
 the lake, or on rocks. We went to some of them and inquired 
 the reason. It was the same old story. War was made, and those 
 that were captured were taken as slaves to the coast. The lower 
 half of the lake is in possession of powerful chiefs, with their people 
 centred round them, who combine with the Arabs, and capture 
 slaves to the west, inland from the lake. There are five dhows which 
 carry slaves across ; not less, from all I can gather, than 15,000 or 
 20,000 a year. When we were at one beautiful spot walking over 
 bleached skeletons with Dr Laws, I could not help thinking and ex¬ 
 claiming, “ Surely the devil has had possession of this land long enough.” 
 Kota Kota is the principal place for Arabs and slaves. I went there, 
 and although there were more than 100 Arabs and their dhows, yet 
 they were so terrified at the sight of a steamer there that they quickly 
 asked Dr Laws what I intended doing with their vessels. So you will 
 see that they are quite aware that we can command the lake. I have 
 strictly complied with your instructions, and have not interfered with 
 the slave trade ; but I hope to do it some day, and I don’t think there 
 is one of the gentlemen on the committee, or in Scotland I may say, if 
 he liad seen the heart-rending and revolting scenes that I have, but 
 what would like to do the same. At the nearest village to us, about 
 two miles off, it was the practice before our arrival for the chief M Pouda, 
 when the Arabs came to him, to send an armed band and take as many 
 of the women and children as required, and sell them as slaves for 
 twelve yards of calico each. It is not so now ; the Arabs are afraid to 
 come near, and the poor natives feel secure, and worship the very name of 
 an Englishman, and I firmly believe that even our very presence here is 
 doing much good. God grant it may continue to do so ! I have inquired 
 of every chief we have met with, why he sells people. It is always the 
 same tale. We must, or we cannot get calico to wear. Now, my dear 
 sir, just fancy that a dozen Englishmen, with a few bales of calico, could 
 prevent thousands of poor creatures being slaughtered every year. If 
 any one says. Who is to do it? tell them that I will, and am now only 
 waiting for the word of command to clear this beautiful country of these 
 murderers. It is only this week that some Aiawa chiefs, living near 
 Magomero, where the Universities’ Mission was, sent messengers to me to 
 ask me to meet them, as they wish to tell me how Portuguese agents from 
 Quillimane are sent to make war with them to capture slaves, which 
 are sold there for 20 yards of calico each, or a little powder or guns. 
 I am going to meet them next week to see what can be done, although 
 
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 it is a long way to travel. My principal reason for going is, that some 
 of the chiefs are blaming the English instead of the Portuguese for 
 supplying guns and powder to slavers, and as they are living in the line 
 of our communication with the coast, I wish to shew myself, and put 
 matters right. 
 
 Tell the good people of Scotland who have given their money for this 
 mission that it has not been thrown away, as up to the present it has 
 been the means indirectly of saving many poor creatures from slavery 
 and death. You will perhaps say I am too full of the slave trade, but I 
 say nay ; also that to bring about a better state of things it must be put 
 down, and one great thing towards bringing it about would be to intro¬ 
 duce lawful trade. Only buy up the ivory, and it would not pay the 
 Arabs to come for slaves alone. But I will tell you more of this when 
 I return to England after Dr Stewart arrives. Everything is now ready 
 for him to come and to make what arrangements he thinks fit with the 
 chiefs, &c. We have succeeded in getting plenty of fowls and a number 
 of goats, planted gardens, and are getting a number of people around 
 us. Dr Laws, Mr Johnston, and others are studying the language, and 
 the former has already begun to try and teach the natives through our 
 interpreter, and I must say they ai’e most anxious to listen to all we 
 have to tell them. 
 
 I forget if I have already told you that our little vessel is a splendid 
 sea-boat, and just adapted for the lake. While at the north end we got 
 caught in a tremendous gale of wind on a lee shore, while short of fuel; 
 we had to ride all night with both anchors down, and steaming at the 
 same time, the sea breaking over us. I thought every minute we should 
 be dashed ashore, but the anchors and cables held on well, and the 
 little craft rode it out splendidly, and when the wind went down the 
 next morning, she steamed out to sea nothing the worse. She is quite 
 tight and sound, and has not touched the ground since she was 
 launched. We are now making a carriage and slip-way to haul her up 
 to paint her bottom, and I hope she will plough this lake for a very long 
 time. • The engines are all right also ; and as far as I am aware there 
 has been no quarrel or misunderstanding with any of our party. Have 
 just received letters dating to 1st September. There has been some 
 delay owing to the country being flooded. I am now arranging for a 
 regular mail service, the work to be done by trustworthy natives, and 
 rest assured I will do all I possibly can while I remain. We have 
 plenty of stores and provisions for the present. Dr Stewart no doubt 
 when he arrives will send for all that will be required for the future. 
 1 don’t anticipate any difficulty in getting stores up, as we have the 
 goodwill of everyone (except slave-dealers), and all are only too willing 
 to work for us ; even the slavers think we are liumane, for just after we 
 came here, a gang of about 500 slaves were on theii- way to the coast. 
 
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 and passed within fifty miles of us. One poor creature could not travel 
 further; so, instead of killing him, which is their practice to do, they 
 let him go, at the same time telling him there was a people called the 
 English living at such a place, and if he could only reach them they 
 were sui'e to take care of him. After great hardships he arrived here, 
 very bad with diseased spine, and hei'e the poor fellow is now. He was 
 frightened when he saw people with white skins and straight hair. 
 
 Hitherto we have been successful in everything we have taken in 
 hand, and I earnestly pray that our Heavenly Father will still guide, 
 guard, and protect us. 
 
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 ABSTRACT of INCOME and EXPENDITURE to 31st March 1876. 
 
 INCOME. 
 
 Glasgow Subscriptions, per List 
 Edinburgb Subscriptions, do. 
 
 Aberdeen Subscriptions, do. 
 
 Dundee Subscriptions, do. 
 
 £5587 6 7 
 3705 0 9 
 542 7 8 
 640 4 7 
 
 £10,474 19 7 
 
 EXPENDITURE. 
 
 Per statement below ..... 5731 12 4 
 
 Balance at credit of the Mission at 31st March 1876 . £4743 7 3 
 
 Whereof in hands of John Macdonald, Treasurer of 
 
 Free Church .... £4339 19 9 
 Bank of Scotland, Glasgow . . 403 7 6 
 
 £4743 7 3 
 
 £10,474 19 7 
 
 STATEMENT OF EXPENDITURE. 
 
 Preliminary Expenses, per Eev. Dr Stewart :— 
 
 Expenses of raising Fund, including Printing, Adver¬ 
 tising, and outlays in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, 
 and Dundee ...... 
 
 Cost of Steam Launch, “Ilala,” and of two Teak Boats 
 Stores and Barter Goods . . . £839 12 11 
 
 Additional, March 1876, to account . . 200 0 0 
 
 Outfits and Salaries, to account 
 Expenses of the Expedition, May to October 
 1875 
 
 £647 2 5 
 1724 3 9 
 
 1039 12 11 
 936 16 8 
 
 Passages to Algoa Bay 
 
 219 
 
 9 
 
 0 
 
 Freight of Boats and Goods to Algoa Bay 
 
 340 
 
 13 
 
 5 
 
 Charter of Schooner “ Harah” from the 
 
 
 
 
 Cape to Algoa Bay, and to mouth of 
 
 
 
 
 the Zambesi .... 
 
 423 
 
 14 
 
 2 
 
 Mr E. D. Young’s Draft from Algoa 
 
 
 
 
 Bay, for the further expenses of the 
 
 
 
 
 party ..... 
 
 400 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 £5731 12 4 
 
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 Mackenzie, Misses 
 
 20 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 20 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Wilson, John . 10 
 
 10 
 
 0 
 
 10 10 
 
 0 
 
48 
 
 Subscribed. Paid. Subscribed. Paid. 
 
 Wilson,W.,AbbotsfordPl. £5 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 £5 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 1 Milne, A. D. . 
 
 £5 
 
 0 0 
 
 £5 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Wishart, Mr, Qreenhill Ter. 
 
 1 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 1 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Milne, G. (Bible Class) . 
 
 0 
 
 10 3 
 
 0 
 
 10 
 
 3 
 
 Wishart, J. K. 
 
 5 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 5 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Mitchell, David 
 
 10 
 
 0 0 
 
 4 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Wishart. W.. Leith 
 
 0 10 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 10 
 
 0 
 
 Mitchell, Stodart James 
 
 2 
 
 10 0 
 
 1 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Wood, W.,C.A. . 
 
 6 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 6 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Murray, Andrew . 
 
 5 
 
 0 0 
 
 5 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Wright, Miss . . 
 
 5 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 6 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 M'Combie, J. B. . 
 
 20 
 
 0 0 
 
 8 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 “ 14th June 1875 ” 
 
 5 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 6 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Pirrie, William, M.D., LL.D. 10 10 o 
 
 10 
 
 10 
 
 0 
 
 Young, Colonel . . 15 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 15 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Robertson, Miss, Bridgefleld 1 
 
 0 0 
 
 1 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Bank Interest, per National 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Ross, Major John . 
 
 15 
 
 0 0 
 
 6 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Bank, to olst Dec. 1875 
 
 2 
 
 0 
 
 1 
 
 2 
 
 0 
 
 1 
 
 Stewart, David 
 
 5 
 
 0 0 
 
 2 10 
 
 0 
 
 Bank Interest, per J. Mac 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Thompson, Cornelius 
 
 20 
 
 0 0 
 
 20 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 douald . . . 23 11 
 
 7 
 
 23 
 
 11 
 
 7 
 
 Thompson, George, jun. 
 
 100 
 
 0 0 
 
 100 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Warrack, Miss 
 
 5 
 
 0 0 
 
 5 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 
 
 
 
 3705 
 
 0 
 
 9 
 
 White, John F. 
 
 10 
 
 0 0 
 
 4 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Widow, A . . . 
 
 1 
 
 0 0 
 
 1 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 ABERDEEN 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 £542 
 
 7 
 
 8 
 
 Anderson, Rev. Alexander £5 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 6 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Anderson, Mrs 
 
 6 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 5 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 DUNDEE. 
 
 
 
 
 
 “A. C.” .... 
 
 0 10 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 10 
 
 0 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Barclay, Mrs, Aberdour Ho. 
 
 1 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 1 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Anonymous—“ 0. B. R.” 
 
 1 
 
 0 0 
 
 1 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Brand, Alexander . 
 
 5 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 5 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 ,, “A working girl,’ 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Cook, .lohn, Ashley 
 
 5 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 5 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 per Dr Wilson 
 
 0 
 
 5 0 
 
 0 
 
 5 
 
 0 
 
 Crombie, J., Balgownie Lo. 
 
 5 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 5 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Buist, A. J. . 
 
 10 
 
 0 0 
 
 10 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Davidson, A., of Dess wood 
 
 5 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 5 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Dalgliesh, W. 0. . 
 
 100 
 
 0 0 
 
 100 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Dickie, Dr . . . 
 
 5 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 5 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Egvo, George, Post Office 
 
 1 
 
 0 0 
 
 1 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Duncan, William . 
 
 0 
 
 10 
 
 6 
 
 0 
 
 10 
 
 6 
 
 Friend, A., Newport . 
 
 2 
 
 0 0 
 
 2 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Edmond, F.,of Kingswells 150 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 150 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Free Church, Chapelsbade 
 
 
 0 
 
 14 
 
 4 
 
 Ferguson, W., Kiiimundy 
 
 50 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 50 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Free Church, Broughty 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Fraser, Mrs, Union Place 
 
 5 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 5 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Ferry. Sabbath School 
 
 
 ••• 
 
 0 13 
 
 0 
 
 Free High Ch. Cong. S. S., 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Free Church St Peters 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 per S. J. Mitchell 
 
 
 • •• 
 
 
 1 
 
 1 
 
 6 
 
 Lower Sabbath School 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 5 
 
 5 
 
 Free West Church coll, at 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Grimoud, A. D. . 
 
 250 
 
 6 0 
 
 250 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Public Meeting . 
 
 
 • •• 
 
 
 2 
 
 14 
 
 5 
 
 Moncur. Alex., & Son . 
 
 25 
 
 0 0 
 
 25 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Friend, A . . . 
 
 1 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 1 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 .Mackie, Mrs, Whiteley . 
 
 25 
 
 0 0 
 
 25 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Friend, A (S. M.) . 
 
 1 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 1 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Pirrie, Davd, painter, . 
 
 1 
 
 0 0 
 
 1 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Garden, James 
 
 5 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 5 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Robertson, W., provost 
 
 50 
 
 0 0 
 
 50 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Garden, James Murr.ay . 
 
 5 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 6 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Smieton, T. A. 
 
 25 
 
 0 0 
 
 25 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Gibbon, Dr . . . 
 
 10 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 4 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Sviner.s, Miss, St Helens 
 
 I'tO 
 
 0 0 
 
 100 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Henderson, William . 200 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 80 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Watt, Archibald A. 
 
 25 
 
 0 0 
 
 25 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Ironside James 
 
 1 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 1 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Watson, Patrick . 
 
 20 
 
 0 0 
 
 20 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Kirby, Co onel 
 
 20 
 
 i) 
 
 0 
 
 8 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Young Men’s Christian 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Leslie, Win., Nethermuir 
 
 5 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 5 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Association 
 
 1 
 
 5 3 
 
 1 
 
 5 
 
 3 
 
 Low, Mrs 
 
 2 
 
 u 
 
 0 
 
 2 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Intere-t, per John HenJer- 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Lumsden, Robert . 
 
 5 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 5 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 son, treasurer . 
 
 0 
 
 1 7 
 
 0 
 
 1 
 
 7 
 
 Milne, Alexander . 
 
 1 
 
 1 
 
 0 
 
 1 
 
 1 
 
 0 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Milne, William, C.A. 
 
 5 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 5 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 
 
 £640 
 
 4 
 
 7 
 
 The Committee have also gratefully to acknowledge numerous gifts for the 
 benefit of the Mission. In jjarticular, a contribution of £2U a-year for five years 
 for the support of a native evangelist from James Sinclair, Esq., Pullockshields ; 
 a large and valuable supply of Oils, Paints, Brushes, &c., from Bobert Hutcheson, 
 Esq , of the firm of Messrs Hutcheson & Co., St Enoch Square, Glasgow; a Medi¬ 
 cine Chest, with medicines, a Lantern, with dissolving views of Bible scenes, &c., 
 and a Photographic Apparatus, from the Sabbath Scholars’ Missionary Asso¬ 
 ciation in the neighbourhood of Glasgow ; a Handloom, with furnishings, valued 
 at £20, from William Dick, Esq., of the firm of Messrs Andrew Peid & Co., 
 manufacturers, Dunfermline ; a Handloom from J. W. Anderson, Esq., Mile End 
 Weaving Company, Glasgow ; Box of useful articles for presents to natives from 
 Miss Wight, 16 Cavendish Street, Glasgow ; Box of ready-made clothing and 
 presents for chiefs, value £10, from Mrs Dr David Lyell, 16 Bose Terrace, Perth ; 
 and Box of ready-made clothing and presents for chiefs from Miss Buchanan, 14 
 Lyndoch Crescent, Glasgow.