Sir Roderick Murchison was right, after all, about Dr. Living-
stone; and Sir Samuel Baker, who seemed to think that the .Johanna men who deserted him were utterly untrustworthy except when they brought bad news, is fortunately wrong. Captain Young and Captain Faulkner have proceeded on Dr. Livingstone's track beyond the place on Lake Nyassa where he was said to have been abandoned by the Johanna men, and have found a number of independent native testimonies to the fact that Dr. Livingstone -had passed safely on his way, and that the Johanna natives who asserted his murder had returned on the plea that "they were being led into a hostile country." There is every certainty that Dr. Livingstone's asserted murder was a pure fiction, and every reason to hope that he will make his way safely to the Nile, and perhaps after all effect a junction with General Sir Robert Napier in Abyssinia.
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