. lanation of their regard for him and hispeculiar influence over them. If they were in want, he wouldhelp to provide for them; if they were in danger, he wouldhelp to deliver them. If we would give medicine to a child,we give it a toy first. He felt that those people must receivethe truth like a child receives medicine. He made them likehim by the love he bore them, manifested according to theircomprehension; then they would hear him in matters whichwere strange and disagreeable. This spirit led to a very seriousaffair only a short
. lanation of their regard for him and hispeculiar influence over them. If they were in want, he wouldhelp to provide for them; if they were in danger, he wouldhelp to deliver them. If we would give medicine to a child,we give it a toy first. He felt that those people must receivethe truth like a child receives medicine. He made them likehim by the love he bore them, manifested according to theircomprehension; then they would hear him in matters whichwere strange and disagreeable. This spirit led to a very seriousaffair only a short time after the settlement at Matabosa—anincident which has gained peculiar interest latterly. Thelions had become singularly troublesome, venturing on mostdaring depredations in broad daylight. The cowardly nativeshad surrendered to their superstitions, and bemoaned the miseryof their situation helplessly enough, when the killing of a singleone of their impudent neighbors would have relieved themeffectually. Under the circumstances, the missionary headed a. A LION ENCOUNTER. 57 party which he gathered and went out to make a victim whichshould be a hint to the presumptuous marauders. After severalfailures, they at length discovered a lion sitting behind a smallbush on a rock. The deliberate aim of Livingstone reached itsmark, but had the effect of bringing the lion bounding uponhim. Quicker than it can be told, they fell together to theground, and growling horribly the monster shook him furiously,inflicting eleven wounds on the upper part of the arm, andcrushing the bone into splinters. That wTound was Gods markplaced on the man; it was that which thirty years later servedto identify the human remains which were carried to Englandas the body of Dr. Livingstone. The affair was one of amoment; the death-shot had been received; the rage of deathwas in the spring and first grasp of the beast; then he fellover his victim, dead. Livingstone had learned the language.,had learned to r
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