Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa by David Livingstone (fun to read .txt) 📕

sion.Let them be always honored according to their deserts;and long may Maclear, Herschel, Airy, and others live to make knownthe wonders and glory of creation, and to aid in renderingthe pathway of the world safe to mariners, and the dark places of the earthopen to Christians!

I beg to offer my hearty thanks to my friend Sir Roderick Murchison,and also to Dr. Norton Shaw, the secretary of the Royal Geographical Society,for aiding my researches by every means in their power.

His faithful majesty Don Pedro V., having kindly sent out ordersto support my late companions until my return, relieved my mind of anxietyon their account. But for this act of liberality, I should certainlyhave been compelled to leave England in May last; and it has afforded methe pleasure of traveling over, in imagination, every scene again,and recalling the feelings which actuated me at the time.I have much pleasure in acknowledging my deep obligationsto the hospitality and kindness of the Portuguese on many occasio