he was too much occupied with the preparation of his Journal for the press to enable him to do this.  Moreover, as he often said, writing was a great drudgery to him.  He, however, attended with me the meetings of some of the medical societies, and gave some verbal accounts of his medical experience which greatly interested his audience.  His remarks on climates, food, and customs of the natives, in reference to the origin and spread of disease, evinced the same acuteness of observation which characterized all the records of his life.  He specially commented on the absence of consumption and all forms of tubercular disease among the natives, and connected this with their constant exposure and out-of-door life.

“After leaving my house he had lodgings in Chelsea, and used frequently to come and spend the Sunday afternoon with my family, often bringing his sister, who was staying with him, and his two elder children.  It was beautiful to observe how thoroughly he enjoyed domestic life and the society of children, how strong was his attachment to his own family after his long and frequent separations from them, and how entirely he had retained his simplicity of character.

“Like so many of his countrymen, he had a keen sense of humor, which frequently came into play when relating his many adventures and hardships.  On the latter he never dilated in the way of complaint, and he had little sympathy with, or respect for, those travelers who did so.  Nor was he apt to say much on direct religious topics, or on the results of his missionary efforts as a Christian teacher.  He had unbounded confidence in the influence of Christian character and principles, and gave many illustrations of the effect produced on the minds and conduct of the benighted and savage tribes with whom he was brought into contact by his own unvarying uprightness of conduct and self-denying labor.  The fatherly character of God, his never-failing goodness and mercy, and the infinite love of the Lord Jesus Christ, and efficacy of his atoning sacrifice, appeared to be the topics on which he loved chiefly to dwell.  The all-pervading deadly evils of slavery, and the atrocities of the slave-trade, never failed to excite his righteous indignation.  If ever he was betrayed into unmeasured language, it was when referring to these topics, or when speaking of the injurious influence exerted on the native mind by the cruel and unprincipled conduct of wicked and selfish traders.  His love for Africa, and confidence in the steady dawn of brighter days for its oppressed races, were unbounded.”

From a member of another family, that of Mr. Frederick Fitch, of Highbury New Park, with whom also the Livingstones spent part of their time, we have some homely but graphic reminiscences: