David Livingstone : his labours and his legacy . the veteranMoffat had been leading for so many years, thoughsomewhat extended in usefulness and influence, per-haps, by his greater medical skill. He was, moreover,determined to put into practice his cherished theoryof training natives for the ministry, for on this pointhe was always very decided; and it is not sur-prising, considering the havoc fever had played withthe Europeans, and the difficulty, the impossibility,of procuring them in sufficient numbers to grapplewith the vast population of the interior. But neitherthis nor the settled life
David Livingstone : his labours and his legacy . the veteranMoffat had been leading for so many years, thoughsomewhat extended in usefulness and influence, per-haps, by his greater medical skill. He was, moreover,determined to put into practice his cherished theoryof training natives for the ministry, for on this pointhe was always very decided; and it is not sur-prising, considering the havoc fever had played withthe Europeans, and the difficulty, the impossibility,of procuring them in sufficient numbers to grapplewith the vast population of the interior. But neitherthis nor the settled life of Moffat was to fall to hislot. He was reserved for a greater and more difficultwork. He had not been long at Mabotsa when, throughsome absurd jealously, his fellow missionary accusedhim of overstepping his rights and claiming to act withgreater freedom and irresponsibility than his positionas a brother missionary entitled him to. This w^eakbrother circulated his fancied wrongs and suppressionamong the missionaries at the Cape, and even wrote. 26 DAVID LIVINGSTONE. home to the Society. Livingstone was naturally indig-nant, but said little. He gave up the house he hadbuilt with his own hands and the garden he had createdby his own toil, and left them generously in the posses-sion of his enemy. Turning his back upon Mabotsa, hemarched some forty miles northward to Chonuane, thecapital of the Bakwains, and the residence of theirchief, Secbele. Here he founded his second station. The task of building and cultivating began again,but he was cheered in his labour by the firm friendshipof Sechele. After three years of instruction and pro-bation the chief received baptism. But the people stillhung back. The country was suffering from one ofthose fearful South African droughts of which theEuropean can have no conception, and the people weretold by the bafQed rain-makers that Livingstone hadbewitched the rain, and none would come to rescue theircrops from failure or themselves from ruin
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