“The chief has acceded to my request to proceed to Barotse and see the country.  I told him my heart was sore, because having left my family to explore his land, and, if possible, find a suitable location for a mission, I could not succeed, because detained by him here.  He says he will take me with him.  He does not like to part with me at all.  He is obliged to consult with those who gave their opinion against my leaving.  But it is certain I am permitted to go.  Thanks be to God for influencing their hearts!”

Before we set out with the chief on this journey, it will be well to give a few extracts from Livingstone’s Journal, showing how unwearied were his efforts to teach the people: 

“Banks of Chobe, Sunday, May 15th.—­Preached twice to about sixty people.  Very attentive.  It is only divine power which can enlighted dark minds as these....  The people seem to receive ideas on divine subjects slowly.  They listen, but never suppose that the truths must become embodied in actual life.  They will wait until the chief becomes a Christian, and if he believes, then they refuse to follow,—­as was the case among the Bakwains.  Procrastination seems as powerful an instrument of deception here as elsewhere.”

“Sunday, 12th June.—­A good and very attentive audience.  We introduce entirely new motives, and were these not perfectly adapted for the human mind and heart by their divine Author, we should have no success.”

“Sunday, 19th June.—­A good and attentive audience, but immediately after the service I went to see a sick man, and when I returned toward the Kotla, I found the chief had retired into a hut to drink beer; and, as the custom is, about forty men were standing singing to him, or, in other words, begging beer by that means.  A minister who had not seen so much pioneer service as I have done would have been shocked to see so little effect produced by an earnest discourse concerning the future judgment, but time must be given to allow the truth to sink into the dark mind, and produce its effect.  The earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord—­that is enough.  We can afford to work in faith, for Omnipotence is pledged to fulfill the promise.  The great mountains become a plain before the Almighty arm.  The poor Bushman, the most degraded of all Adam’s family, shall see his glory, and the dwellers in the wilderness shall bow before Him.  The obstacles to the coming of the Kingdom are mighty, but come it will for all that;

     “Then let us pray that come it may,
       As come, it will for a’ that,
     That man to man the world o’er
       Shall brothers be for a’ that.’