[Footnote 74:  The intimation of salary was premature.  Livingstone got a pension of L800 afterward, which lasted only for a year and a half.]

The impression made on Stanley by Livingstone was remarkably vivid; and the portrait drawn by the American will be recognized as genuine by every one who knows what manner of man Livingstone was: 

“I defy any one to be in his society long without thoroughly fathoming him, for in him there is no guile, and what is apparent on the surface is the thing that is in him....  Dr. Livingstone is about sixty years old, though after he was restored to health he looked like a man who had not passed his fiftieth 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