ce which greatly
interested his audience. His remarks on climates, food, and
customs of the natives, in reference to the origin and spread
of disease, evinced the same acuteness of observation which
characterized all the records of his life. He specially
commented on the absence of consumption and all forms of
tubercular disease among the natives, and connected this with
their constant exposure and out-of-door life.

"After leaving my house he had lodgings in Chelsea, and used
frequently to come and spend the Sunday afternoon with my
family, often bringing his sister, who was staying with him,
and his two elder children. It was beautiful to observe how
thoroughly he enjoyed domestic life and the society of
children, how strong was his attachment to his own family
after his long and frequent separations from them, and how
entirely he had retained his simplicity of character.

"Like so many of his countrymen, he had a keen sense of
humor, which frequently came into play when relating his many
adventures and hardships. On the latter he never dilated in
the way of complaint, and he had little sympathy with, or
respect for, those travelers who did so. Nor was he apt to
say much on direct religious topics, or on the results of his
missionary efforts as a Christian teacher. He had unbounded
confidence in the influence of Christian character and
principles, and gave many illustrations of the effect
produced on the minds and conduct of the benighted and savage
tribes with whom he was brought into contact by his own
unvarying uprightness of conduct and self-denying labor. The
fatherly character of God, his never-failing goodness and
mercy, and the infinite love of the Lord Jesus Christ, and
efficacy of his atoning sacrifice, appeared to be the topics
on which he loved chiefly to dwell. The all-pervading deadly
evils of slavery, and the atrocities of the slave-trade,
never failed to excite his righteous indignation. If ever he
was betrayed into unmeasured language, it was when referring
to these topics, or when speaking of the injurious influence
exerted on the native mind by the cruel and unprincipled
conduct of wicked and selfish traders. His love for Africa,
and confidence in the steady dawn of brighter days for its
oppressed races,