“27_th April_.—­On this day twelvemonths my beloved Mary
     Moffat was removed from me by death.

     “’If I can, I’ll come again, mother, from out my resting-place;
     Though you’ll not see me, mother, I shall look upon your face;
     Though I cannot speak a word, I shall hearken what you say,
     And be often, often with you when you think I’m far away.’

     “TENNYSON.”

The “Lady Nyassa” being taken to pieces, the party began to construct a road over the thirty-five or forty miles of the rapids, in order to convey the steamer to the lake.  After a few miles of the road had been completed, it was thought desirable to ascertain whether the boat left near the lake two years before was fit for service, so as to avoid the necessity of carrying another boat past the rapids.  On reaching it the boat was found to have been burnt.  The party therefore returned to carry up another.  They had got to the very last rapid, and had placed the boat for a short space in the water, when, through the carelessness of five Zambesi men, she was overturned, and away she went like an arrow down the rapids.  To keep calm under such a crowning disappointment must have I taxed Livingstone’s self-control to the very utmost.

It was now that he received a despatch from Earl Russell intimating that the Expedition was recalled.  This, though a great disappointment, was not altogether a surprise.  On the 24th April he had written to Mr. Waller “I should not wonder in the least to be recalled, for should the Portuguese persist in keeping the rivers shut, there would be no use in trying to develop trade,” He states his views on the recall calmly in a letter to Mr. James Young: 

“Murchison Cataracts, 3_d July_, 1863.—...  Got instructions for our recall yesterday, at which I do not wonder.  The Government has behaved well to us throughout, and I feel abundantly thankful to H.M.’s ministers for enabling me so far to carry on the experiment of turning the industrial and trading propensities of the natives to good account, with a view of thereby eradicating the trade in slaves.  But the Portuguese dogged our footsteps, and, as is generally understood, with the approbation of their Home Government, neutralized our labors.  Not that the Portuguese statesmen approved of slaving, but being enormously jealous lest their pretended dominion from sea to sea and elsewhere should in the least degree, now or any future time, become aught else than a slave ‘preserve,’ the Governors have been instructed, and have carried out their instructions further than their employers intended.  Major Sicard was removed from Tette as too friendly, and his successor had emmissaries in the Ajawa camp.  Well, he saw their policy, and regretted that they should be allowed to follow us into perfectly new regions.  The regret was the more poignant, inasmuch as but for our entering in by gentleness, they durst not have