David Livingstone : his labours and his legacy . ^t^mwmi ^^£__?•t^^ --^ ,--i THE MISSION STATION, LIVINGSTONIA, NYASSA LAKE. CHAPTER IX, NILE OR CONGO f THE unsold Lady Nyassa led Livingstone back toBombay, and his presence there enabled him tofind a purchaser for the vessel which he had boughtout of the profits of his book, and on which hehad centred so many hopes for the tribes aroundLake Nyassa—hopes not to be reahsed in his ownlifetime, though largely fulfilled at this day. Thevessel had cost him nearly £6,000, but the highestprice he could obtain for it was ;^2,300; and asLivingstone temp
David Livingstone : his labours and his legacy . ^t^mwmi ^^£__?•t^^ --^ ,--i THE MISSION STATION, LIVINGSTONIA, NYASSA LAKE. CHAPTER IX, NILE OR CONGO f THE unsold Lady Nyassa led Livingstone back toBombay, and his presence there enabled him tofind a purchaser for the vessel which he had boughtout of the profits of his book, and on which hehad centred so many hopes for the tribes aroundLake Nyassa—hopes not to be reahsed in his ownlifetime, though largely fulfilled at this day. Thevessel had cost him nearly £6,000, but the highestprice he could obtain for it was ;^2,300; and asLivingstone temporarily lodged that sum in an Indianbank, which subsequently failed, the whole of theoriginal cost was lost. From Bombay he sailed to Zanzibar, bearing to theSultan a letter of introduction, couched in the mostcordial language, from Sir Bar tie Frere, the governor jand also, as a present from that official to the Zanzi-bar potentate, the steamship in which the Doctor made NILE OR CONGO ? II5 the passage. After some delay at Zanzibar, he
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