Africa to sing these pretty hymns to me there.  She said she would like to go, but should not like to have a black husband.  This is Christmas season, and to-morrow is held as the day in which our Lord was born, an event which angels made known to men, and it brought great joy, and proclaimed peace on earth and good-will to men.  That Saviour must be your friend, and He will be if you ask Him so to be.  He will forgive and save you, and take you into his family.”

On New Year’s Day, 1860, he writes in his Journal:  “The Governor told me that he had much pleasure in giving Dr. Kirk an appointment; he would telegraph to him to-day.  It is to be at Zanzibar, where he will be of great use in promoting all good works.”

It had been arranged that Dr. Livingstone was to cross to Zanzibar in the “Thule,” a steamer that had formed part of the squadron of Captain Sherard Osborn in China, and which Livingstone had now the honor of being commissioned to present to the Sultan of Zanzibar, as a present from Sir Bartle Frere and the Bombay Government.

We give a few extracts from his journal at sea: 

“17_th January_.—­Issued flannel to all the boys from Nassick; the marines have theirs from Government.  The boys sing a couple of hymns every evening, and repeat the Lord’s Prayer.  I mean to keep up this, and make this a Christian Expedition, telling a little about Christ wherever we go.  His love in coming down to save men will be our theme.  I dislike very much to make my religion distasteful to others.  This, with ——­’s hypocritical ostentation, made me have fewer religious services on the Zambesi than would have been desirable, perhaps.  He made religion itself distasteful by excessive ostentation....  Good works gain the approbation of the world, and though there is antipathy in the human heart to the gospel of Christ, yet when Christians make their good works shine all admire them.  It is when great disparity exists between profession and practice that we secure the scorn of mankind.  The Lord help me to act in all cases in this Expedition as a Christian ought!”

“23_d January_.—­My second book has been reviewed very favorably by the Athenaeum and the Saturday Review, and by many newspapers.  Old John Crawford gives a snarl in the Examiner, but I can afford that it should be so. 4800 copies were sold on first night of Mr. Murray’s sale.  It is rather a handsome volume.  I hope it may do some good.”

In a letter to Mr. James Young he writes of his voyage, and discharges a characteristic spurt of humor at a mutual Edinburgh acquaintance who had mistaken an order about a magic lantern: