d indigo is a weed in the delta of the Zambesi. Barth also
finds these products abundant on the banks of the Benuwe and Shari, and
around Lake Tsad. The prevalent idea of the inherent laziness of the
Africans must be abandoned, for, scattered through the narratives
of both these intrepid explorers are abundant testimonies of the
industrious disposition of the natives.

Livingstone, as befits his profession, regards his discoveries from a
religious stand-point. "The end of the geographical feat," he says, "is
the beginning of the missionary enterprise." But he is a philosopher as
well as a preacher, recognizing as true missionaries the man of science
who searches after hidden truths, the soldier who fights against
tyranny, the sailor who puts down the slave-trade, and the merchant who
teaches practically the mutual dependence of the nations of the earth.
His idea of missionary labor looks to this world as well as the next.
Had the Bakwains possessed rifles as well as Bibles--had they raised
cotton as well as attended prayer-meetings--it would have been better
for them. He is clearly of the opinion that decent clothing is of more
immediate use to the heathen than doctrinal sermons. "We ought," he
says, "to encourage the Africans to cultivate for our markets, as the
most effectual means, next to the Gospel, of their elevation." His
practical turn of mind suffers him to present no fancy pictures of
barbarous nations longing for the Gospel. His Makololo friends, indeed,
listened respectfully when he discoursed of the Saviour, but were all
earnestness when he spoke of cotton cloths and muskets. Sekeletu favored
the missionary, not as the man who could give him Bibles and tracts,
but as the one by whose help he hoped to sell his ivory for a rifle, a
sugar-mill, and brass wire.

Livingstone's missionary scheme is accommodated to the actual state of
things. It rests quite as much upon traders as preachers. He would open
a communication by the Zambesi to the heart of the continent. Upon the
healthy, elevated region overlooking the low, fertile basin he would
establish trading posts, supplied with European wares. We can not wonder
that the directors of the Missionary Society looked coldly upon this
scheme, and wrote to him that they were "restricted in their power of
aiding plans connected only remotely with the spread of the Gospel;"
nor can we regret that Livingstone, feeling his old love of independence
revive, withdrew from h