David Livingstone : his labours and his legacy . be literally mined in orderto procure moisture for the more precious for cattle failed, and the cows gave nomilk ; the tribe was in a bad way, and became restlessagain. The restlessness seemed infectious; for Living-stone, whose eyes looked ever northw^ard, and wholonged for power to disseminate native deacons andschoolmasters among the people of the interior, madeup his mind that Kolobeng, too, must be left behind,and that pastures new and more desirable must besought. If the natives could not live at Kolobeng, itwas very
David Livingstone : his labours and his legacy . be literally mined in orderto procure moisture for the more precious for cattle failed, and the cows gave nomilk ; the tribe was in a bad way, and became restlessagain. The restlessness seemed infectious; for Living-stone, whose eyes looked ever northw^ard, and wholonged for power to disseminate native deacons andschoolmasters among the people of the interior, madeup his mind that Kolobeng, too, must be left behind,and that pastures new and more desirable must besought. If the natives could not live at Kolobeng, itwas very evident that Europeans could not either, andthe sooner a new station was selected the better for thetribe among which he was living, and the better alsofor the prosperity of his Gospel preaching. In all his plans not one thought occurred of retreat-ing, as he easily might have done, to the Colony, andliving in comparative ease and perfect security. No;his eyes were looking fearlessly northward, and hiswhole soul breathed the one word * Onward !. AN AFRICAN VILLAGE. CHAPTER III. MISSIONARY TRAVELS. LITTLE did Livingstone think that when he leftKolobeng to seek a more suitable settlement forhimself and his friends the Bakwains, he was reallyentering on a career of travel and exploration whichwas to place his name on the highest pinnacle of fameand only end with his death. Yet such was the case, and therefore it cannot butbe appropriate to consider here, as briefly as possible,the twofold position of Livingstone as a missionary andan explorer. It is evident enough that, when he left his wife andthree children at Kolobeng, his sole purpose was to seekthe country of Sebituane, and ascertain if the regions ofthe great lake of which he had so often heard werehealthful and suitable to missionary enterprise. In hisefforts to preach the Gospel to the various tribes heencountered, he found it after a while impossible totake his family with him, and reluctantly he consentedto their departu
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