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TIIE LIVINGSTONE EXPEDITION.
The Cape papers publish a letter from Dr. Livingstone. He had reached Tete, and had received there a supply of coal for his steamer— the first ever dug in that country. They were pronounced by the engi- neer and geologist to be good. There is no end of the finest iron ; so with coal and iron surely something will yet be done in Africa."
"This (his steam launch) was the first thing of the steamer kind ever seen at Tote, and we were visited with as much interest as is the Leviathan. Foremost among our visitors were my Makololo companions. They grasped my hands and arms convulsively, and lullilooed for joy. About thirty of them have died from small-pox, and six were killed by a rebel chief, who in defiance of Portuguese authority, holds a stockade at the confluence of the Luenya. This grieves them and me more than anything. The excuse is he did it in a fit of drunkenness. There were three such rebels, half-caste Portuguese of Goa, who defied the Portuguese. One who had a stockade at the mouth of the river, has just now been conquered by the Governor of Eillimane, The war has been against us, though we have gone from one side to the other, without molestation, as friends of both, or rather as Eng- lish, for it is the English name that was our passport. I came one night to a party after dark, and created an alium, but that wali quelled when I called out Men.' " Dr. Livingstone has found the shallowness of the river a bar to his progress, and he suggests improvements in the navigation.
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