year. His hair has a brownish color yet, but is
here and there streaked with gray lines over the temples; his
beard and moustaches are very gray. His eyes, which are
hazel, are remarkably bright; he has a sight keen as a
hawk's. His teeth alone indicate the weakness of age; the
hard fare of Lunda has made havoc in their lines. His form,
which soon assumed a stoutish appearance, is a little over
the ordinary height, with the slightest possible bow in the
shoulders. When walking he has a firm but heavy tread, like
that of an overworked or fatigued man. He is accustomed to
wear a naval cap with a semicircular peak, by which he has
been identified throughout Africa. His dress, when first I
saw him, exhibited traces of patching and repairing, but was
scrupulously clean.

"I was led to believe that Livingstone possessed a splenetic,
misanthropic temper; some have said that he is garrulous;
that he is demented; that he is utterly changed from the
David Livingstone whom people knew as the reverend
missionary; that he takes no notes or observations but such
as those which no other person could read but himself, and it
was reported, before I proceeded to Africa, that he was
married to an African princess.

"I respectfully beg to differ with all and each of the above
statements. I grant he is not an angel; but he approaches to
that being as near as the nature of a living man will allow.
I never saw any spleen or misanthropy in him: as for being
garrulous, Dr. Livingstone is quite the reverse; he is
reserved, if anything; and to the man who says Dr.
Livingstone is changed, all I can say is, that he never could
have known him, for it is notorious that the Doctor has a
fund of quiet humor, which he exhibits at all times when he
is among friends." [After repudiating the charge as to his
notes, and observations, Mr. Stanley continues:] "As to the
report of his African marriage, it is unnecessary to say more
than that it is untrue, and it is utterly beneath a gentleman
even to hint at such a thing in connection with the name of
Dr. Livingstone.

"You may take any point in Dr. Livingstone's character, and
analyze it carefully, and I would challenge any man to find a
fault in it.... His gentleness never forsakes him; his
hopefulness ne