him; his hopefulness never deserts him.  No harassing anxieties, distraction of mind, long separation from home and kindred, can make him complain.  He thinks ’all will come out right at last’; he has such faith in the goodness of Providence.  The sport of adverse circumstances, the plaything of the miserable beings sent to him from Zanzibar—­he has been baffled and worried, even almost to the grave, yet he will not desert the charge imposed upon him by his friend Sir Roderick Murchison.  To the stern dictates of duty, alone, has he sacrificed his home and ease, the pleasures, refinements, and luxuries of civilized life.  His is the Spartan heroism, the inflexibility of the Roman, the enduring resolution of the Anglo-Saxon—­never to relinquish his work, though his heart yearns for home; never to surrender his obligations until he can write FINIS to his work.

“There is a good-natured abandon about Livingstone which was not lost on me.  Whenever he began to laugh, there was a contagion about it that compelled me to imitate him.  It was such a laugh as Teufelsdroeckh’s—­a laugh of the whole man from head to heel.  If he told a story, he related it in such a way as to convince one of its truthfulness; his face was so lit up by the sly fun it contained, that I was sure the story was worth relating, and worth listening to.

“Another thing that especially attracted my attention was his wonderfully retentive memory.  If we remember the many years he has spent in Africa, deprived of books, we may well think it an uncommon memory that can recite whole poems from Byron, Burns, Tennyson, Longfellow, Whittier, and Lowell....

“His religion is not of the theoretical kind, but it is a constant, earnest, sincere practice.  It is neither demonstrative nor loud, but manifests itself in a quiet, practical way, and is always at work.  It is not aggressive, which sometimes is troublesome if not impertinent.  In him religion exhibits its loveliest features; it governs his conduct not only toward his servants but toward the natives, the bigoted Mohammedans, and all who come in contact with him.  Without it, Livingstone, with his ardent temperament, his enthusiasm, his high spirit and courage, must have become uncompanionable, and a hard master.  Religion has tamed him and made him a Christian gentleman; the crude and willful have been refined and subdued; religion has made him the most companionable of men and indulgent of masters—­a man whose society is pleasurable to a degree....

“From being thwarted and hated in every possible way by the Arabs and half-castes upon his first arrival at Ujiji, he has, through his uniform kindness and mild, pleasant temper, won all hearts.  I observed that universal respect was paid to him.  Even the Mohammedans never passed his house without calling to pay their compliments, and to say, ’The blessing of God rest on you!’ Each Sunday morning he gathers