When explorers began to study the healthful highlands of the Akikuyu tribe in East Africa a few years ago, the natives rushed to arms.  “Keep away from us,” they said.  “One of your white men came through the land, stealing food from our gardens, and killing all who said he ought to pay us for our vegetables.  We want nothing to do with thieves and murderers like you.”

But no vengeance fell on the head of any white traveller who ever followed in the footsteps of Livingstone.  Those explorers have achieved most who adhered to his example of unfailing kindness, mercy, and justice.  The brutal German, whose crimes made the Akikuyu hostile to all whites, marked his path with blood from the Indian Ocean to Victoria Nyanza.  Serpa Pinto, renowned for the scientific value of his work, aroused condemnation and disgust because he fought his way through many tribes, among whom Livingstone and Arnot had wandered almost alone and in perfect safety.  Fortunately, there have not been many explorers militant.  The brilliant discoveries of Grenfell, Delcommune, Lemaire, and others, who are in the first rank of African pioneers, were made without harming a native.

Let us glance at a few of Livingstone’s discoveries and form our own conclusions as to whether his sublime faith in the future of Africa has thus far been justified by events.  In the depths of the wilderness he discovered the large lake, Mweru, through which the Upper Congo flows.  Though white influences have reached that remote region only within the past two or three years, a little steamboat now plies those waters.  A photograph of Mpweto, one of the white settlements on the lake, shows the commodious quarters of the Europeans, two long lines of cabins in which the native workmen live, and well-tilled gardens extending for a half-mile along the shore.  Livingstone brought to light the coal fields of the Zambesi, the only coal yet known in tropical Africa.  While these lines are being written, the British of Rhodesia are preparing to open mines along these deposits.  He told the world of the Victoria Falls of the Zambesi, the largest known, a mile wide and twice as high as Niagara.  The installation of an electrical plant at this great source of power is now in progress, and it is hoped within three years to transmit electrically all the power required to work the large copper mines in the north, the coal fields in the east, and to move trains on the Cape to Cairo Railroad for a distance of three hundred miles.  The recent improvements in long-distance transmission of power encourages the belief that the Victoria Falls may some day possess large industrial utility for a wide region around them.  Coffee plantations on the hills overlooking the long expanse of Nyassa, the splendid freshwater sea which Livingstone revealed in its setting of mountains, are selling their superior product in London at a high price.  The town of Blantyre, among the Nyassa highlands which Livingstone first described, has a