We have lost sight of Dr. Stewart and the projected mission of the Free Church of Scotland.  As Dr. Livingstone’s arrangements did not admit of his accompanying Dr. Stewart up the Shire, he set out alone, falling in afterward with the Rev. Mr. Scudamore, a member, and as we have already said ultimately a martyr, of the Universities Mission.  The report which Dr. Stewart made of the prospects of a mission was that, owing to the disturbed state of the country, no immediate action could be taken.  Livingstone seemed to think him hasty in this conclusion.  The scheme continued to be ardently cherished, and some ten or twelve years after—­in 1874—­in the formation of the “Livingstonia” mission and colony, a most promising and practical step was taken toward the fulfillment of Dr. Livingstone’s views.  Dr. Stewart has proved one of the best friends and noblest workers for African regeneration both at Lovedale and Livingstonia—­a strong man on whom other men may lean, with his whole heart in the cause of Africa.

In the breaking up of the Universities Mission, it was necessary that some arrangement should be made on behalf of about thirty boys and a few helpless old persons and others, a portion of the rescued slaves, who had been taken under the charge of the Mission, and could not be abandoned.  The fear of the Portuguese seemed likely to lead to their being left behind.  But Livingstone could not bear the idea.  He thought it would be highly discreditable to the good name of England, and an affront to the memory of Bishop Mackenzie, to “repudiate” his act in taking them under his protection.  Therefore, when Bishop Tozer would not accept the charge, he himself took them in hand, giving orders to Mr. E.D.  Young (as he says in his Journal), “in the event of any Portuguese interfering with them in his absence, to pitch him over-board!” Through his influence arrangements were made, as we shall see, for conveying them to the Cape.  Mr. R.M.  Ballantyne, in his Six Months at the Cape, tells us that he found, some years afterward, among the most efficient teachers in St. George’s Orphanage, Cape Town, one of these black girls, named Dauma, whom Bishop Mackenzie had personally rescued and carried on his shoulders, and whom Livingstone now rescued a second time.

Livingstone’s plan for himself was to sail to Bombay in the “Lady Nyassa,” and endeavor to sell her there, before returning home.  The Portuguese would have liked to get her, to employ her as a slaver—­“But,” he wrote to his daughter (10th August, 1863), “I would rather see her go down to the depths of the Indian Ocean than that.  We have not been able to do all that we intended for this country, owing to the jealousy and slave-hunting of the Portuguese.  They have hindered us effectually by sweeping away the population into slavery.  Thousands have perished, and wherever we go human skeletons appear.  I suppose that our Government could not prevail on the Portuguese