to his enemies, and give them a chance of escape.  Incessant activity is a law in obtaining food.  If the prey could be caught with ease, and no warning were given, the balance would be turned against the feebler animals, and carnivora alone would prevail.  The cat shows her shortened tail, and the rattlesnake shakes his tail, to give warning to the prey.  The flying-fish has large eyes in proportion to other fish, yet leaps on board very often at night, and kills himself by the concussion.

Livingstone is in great perplexity what to do.  At the rate at which his ship is going it would take him fifteen days to reach Bombay, being one day before the breaking of the monsoon, which would be running it too close to danger.  He thinks of going to Aden, but that would require him to go first to Maculla for water and provisions.  When he tries Aden the wind is against him; so he turns the ship’s head to Bombay, though he has water enough for but ten or twelve days on short allowance.  “May the Almighty be gracious to us all and help us!”

     His Journal is a curious combination of nautical observations
     and reflections on Africa and his work.  We seem to hear him
     pacing his little deck, and thinking aloud: 

“The idea of a colony in Africa, as the term colony is usually understood cannot be entertained.  English races cannot compete in manual labor of any kind with the natives, but they can take a leading part in managing the land, improving the quality, in creating the quantity and extending the varieties of the productions of the soil; and by taking a lead, too, in trade, and in all public matters, the Englishman would be an unmixed advantage to every one below and around him, for he would fill a place which is now practically vacant.

“It is difficult to convey an idea of the country; it is so different from all preconceived notions.  The country in many parts rises up to plateaus, slopes up to which are diversified by valleys lined with trees; or here and there rocky bluffs jut out; the plateaus themselves are open prairies covered with grass dotted over with trees, and watered by numerous streams.  Nor are they absolutely flat, their surface is varied by picturesque undulations.  Deep gorges and ravines leading down to the lower levels offer special beauties, and landscapes from the edges of the higher plateaus are in their way unequaled.  Thence the winding of the Shire may be followed like a silver thread or broad lake with its dark mountain mass behind.

“I think that the Oxford and Cambridge missionaries have treated me badly in trying to make me the scapegoat of their own blunders and inefficiency....  But I shall try equitably and gently to make allowances for human weakness, though that weakness has caused me much suffering.”

On 28th May they had something like a foretaste of the breaking of the monsoon, though happily that event