accuracy, even so late as the meeting of the British
Association at Sheffield in 1879. The family of the late Sir Thomas
Maclear have sent home his collection of Livingstone's papers. They fill
a box which one man could with difficulty carry. And their mass is far
from their most striking quality. The evidence of laborious, painstaking
care to be accurate is almost unprecedented. Folio volumes of pages
covered with figures show how much time and labor must have been spent
in these computations. Explanatory remarks often indicate the
particulars of the observation.]

Following this unrivaled eulogium on the scientific powers of
Livingstone came the testimony of Mr. Thompson to his missionary ardor:

'I am in a position to express my earnest conviction, formed
in long, intimate, unreserved communications with him,
personally and by letter, that in the privations, sufferings,
and dangers he has passed through, during the last eight
years, he has not been actuated by mere curiosity; or the
love of adventure, or the thirst for applause, or by any
other object, however laudable in itself, less than his
avowed one as a messenger of Christian love from the
Churches. If ever there was a man who, by realizing the
obligations of his sacred calling as a Christian missionary,
and intelligently comprehending its object, sought to pursue
it to a successful issue, such a man is Dr. Livingstone. The
spirit in which he engages in his work may be seen in the
following extract from one of his letters: 'You kindly say
you fear for the result of my going in alone. I hope I am in
the way of duty; my own conviction that such is the case has
never wavered. I am doing something for God. I have preached
the gospel in many a spot where the name of Christ has never
been heard, and I would wish to do still more in the way of
reducing the Barotse language, if I had not suffered so
severely from fever. Exhaustion produced vertigo, causing
me, if I looked suddenly up, almost to lose consciousness;
this made me give up sedentary work; but I hope God will
accept of what I can do.'

A third gentleman at this meeting, Mr. Rutherfoord, who had known
Livingstone for many years, besides describing him as "one of the most
honorable, benevolent, conscientious men I ever met with," bore
testimony to his capacity in mercantile affairs; not e