“We spent a most charming day in the caves, and the wild jungle around them.  Dr. Wilson, you may believe, was in his element, pouring forth volumes of Oriental lore in connection with the Buddhist faith and the Kenhari caves, which are among the most striking and interesting monuments of it in India.  They are of great extent, and the main temple is in good preservation.  Doctor Livingstone’s almost boyish enjoyment of the whole thing impressed me greatly.  The stern, almost impassive, man seemed to unbend, and enter most thoroughly into the spirit of a day in which pleasure and instruction, under circumstances of no little interest, were so delightfully combined.”

At Bombay he heard disquieting tidings of the Hanoverian traveler, Baron van der Decken.  In his Journal he says: 

“29_th December_, 1865.—­The expedition of the Baron van der Decken has met with a disaster up the Juba.  He had gone up 300 miles, and met only with the loss of his steam launch.  He then ran his steamer on two rocks and made two large holes in her bottom.  The Baron and Dr. Link got out in order to go to the chief to conciliate him.  He had been led to suspect war.  Then a large party came and attacked them, killing the artist Trenn and the chief engineer.  They were beaten off, and Lieutenant von Schift with four survivors left in the boat, and in four days came down the stream.  Thence they came in a dhow to Zanzibar.  It is feared that the Baron may be murdered, but possibly not.  It looks ill that the attack was made after he landed.

     “My times are in thy hand, O Lord!  Go Thou with me and I am
     safe.  And above all, make me useful in promoting Thy cause of
     peace and good-will among men.”

The rumor of the Baron’s death was subsequently confirmed.  His mode of treating the natives was the very opposite of Livingstone’s, who regarded the manner of his death as another proof that it was not safe to disregard the manhood of the African people.

The Bombay lecture was a great success.  Dr. Wilson, Free Church Missionary, was in the chair, and after the lecture tried to rouse the Bombay merchants, and especially the Scotch ones, to help the enterprise.  Referring to the driblets that had been contributed by Government and the Geographical Society, he proposed that in Bombay they should raise as much as both.  In his next letter to his daughter, Livingstone tells of the success of the lecture, of the subscription, which promised to amount to L1000 (it did not quite do so), and of his wish that the Bombay merchants should use the money for setting up a trading establishment in Africa.  “I must first of all find a suitable spot; then send back here to let it be known.  I shall then be off in my work for the Geographical Society, and when that is done, if I am well, I shall come back to the first station.”  He goes on to speak of the facilities he had received for transporting Indian buffaloes and other animals to