red beast like a dog.  She charged the wagon, split a spoke and a felloe with her horn, and then left.  Paul and I jumped into a rut, as the guns were in the wagon.”

The black rhinoceros is one of the most dangerous of the wild beasts of Africa, and travelers stand in great awe of it.  The courage of Dr. Livingstone in exposing himself to the risk of such animals on this missionary tour was none the less that he himself says not a word regarding it; but such courage was constantly shown by him.  The following instances are given on the authority of Dr. Moffat as samples of what was habitual to Dr. Livingstone in the performance of his duty.

In going through a wood, a party of hunters were startled by the appearance of a black rhinoceros.  The furious beast dashed at the wagon, and drove his horn into the bowels of the driver, inflicting a frightful wound.  A messenger was despatched in the greatest haste for Dr. Livingstone, whose house was eight or ten miles distant.  The messenger in his eagerness ran the whole way.  Livingstone’s friends were horror-struck at the idea of his riding through the wood at night, exposed to the rhinoceros and other deadly beasts.  “No, no; you must not think of it, Livingstone; it is certain death.”  Livingstone believed it was a Christian duty to try to save the poor fellow’s life, and he resolved to go, happen what might.  Mounting his horse, he rode to the scene of the accident.  The man had died, and the wagon had left, so that there was nothing for Livingstone but to return and run the risk of the forest anew, without even the hope that he might be useful in saving life.

Another time, when he and a brother missionary were on a tour a long way from home, a messenger came to tell his companion that one of his children was alarmingly ill.  It was but natural for him to desire Livingstone to go back with him.  The way lay over a road infested by lions.  Livingstone’s life would be in danger; moreover, as we have seen, he was intensely desirous to examine the fossil bones at the place.  But when his friend expressed the desire for him to go, he went without hesitation.  His firm belief in Providence sustained him in these as in so many other dangers.

Medical practice was certainly not made easier by what happened to some of his packages from England.  Writing to his father-in-law, Mr. Moffat (18th January, 1849), he says: 

“Most of our boxes which come to us from England are opened, and usually lightened of their contents.  You will perhaps remember one in which Sechele’s cloak was.  It contained, on leaving Glasgow, besides the articles which came here, a parcel of surgical instruments which I ordered, and of course paid for.  One of these was a valuable cupping apparatus.  The value at which the instruments were purchased for me was L4, 12s., their real value much more.

“The box which you kindly packed for us and despatched to Glasgow has, we hear,