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				<title>Letter to John Washington</title>
                <title type="alternative">Letter to John Washington, 9 December 1857</title>
				<author xml:id="DL">Livingstone, David, 1813-1873</author>
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				<pubPlace>London</pubPlace>
				<date>2009-08-10</date>
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				<bibl xml:id="recipient"><persName>Washington, John, 1800-1863</persName></bibl>
				<bibl xml:id="date"><date when="1857-12-09">9 December 1857</date></bibl>
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				<date>2009-08-10</date>
				<name xml:id="SM">Sharon Messenger</name>Initial Transcription by Sharon Messenger
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				<date>2009-08-21</date>
				<name xml:id="CL">Chris Lawrence</name>Proofed by Chris
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<lb/><p rend="no-indent">With <hi rend="underline">the 
<lb/>questions</hi></p>
<lb/><p rend="center"><space extent="1" unit="words"/><placeName>Admiralty</placeName></p>
<lb/><p rend="center"><space extent="1" unit="words"/><space extent="3" unit="chars"/>9<hi rend="sup">th</hi> Dec<hi rend="sup">r</hi></p>
<lb/><p rend="right"><space extent="1" unit="words"/>1857 </p>
<lb/>
<lb/><p rend="no-indent">Dear <persName>Captain Washington</persName></p>
<lb/><p>While waiting at 
<lb/>the Admiralty I shall 
<lb/>try &amp; answer your 
<lb/>questions<reg>.</reg></p>
<lb/><p>1<hi rend="sup">st</hi> the unhealthy 
<lb/>region extends 
<lb/>about 200 <add place="above">miles</add> from 
<lb/>the coast 

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<lb/>or <choice><sic>untill</sic><corr>until</corr></choice> you get 
<lb/>through the gorge 
<lb/>of <placeName>Lupata</placeName><reg>.</reg></p>
<lb/><p rend="no-indent">2<hi rend="sup">d</hi> 3 3/4 miles per hour 
<lb/>in some parts a 
<lb/>little more say 4. </p>
<lb/><p rend="no-indent">3<hi rend="sup">d</hi> No. the steam launch 
<lb/>spoken of 
<lb/>would be used above 
<lb/>the rapid. </p>
<lb/><p rend="no-indent">4<hi rend="sup underline">th</hi> I suppose that 
<lb/>they are formed 

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<lb/>by certain dykes of 
<lb/>basalt which I saw 
<lb/>lying in the direction 
<lb/>in which the rapid 
<lb/>occurs - there is no 
<lb/>great fall of the 
<lb/>country there I am 
<lb/>certain so it is not 
<lb/>"a water fall"<reg>.</reg></p>
<lb/><p rend="no-indent">5. <persName>M<hi rend="sup">r</hi> Hoskins</persName> now 
<lb/>commands a 
<lb/>gun boat in <placeName>China</placeName>
<lb/>I do not know any 
<lb/>of the "Grecian" men<reg>.</reg></p>

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<lb/><p rend="no-indent"><persName>M<hi rend="sup">r</hi> Swaine</persName> was 
<lb/>serving at the same 
<lb/>time with <persName>Hoskins</persName>
<lb/>and he was 2<hi rend="sup">d</hi> master 
<lb/>of the Pluto steamer 
<lb/>when I was at <placeName>Loanda</placeName>. There are 
<lb/>probably others who 
<lb/>were there on 
<lb/>board the Castor 
<lb/>with <persName>Captain Parker</persName> who was killed at 
<lb/>the <placeName>Danube</placeName><reg>.</reg>

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<lb/>6<hi rend="sup underline">th</hi> the good 
<w>con-<lb break="no"/>templated</w> by a larger 
<lb/>vessel would be 
<lb/>getting quickly through 
<lb/>the unhealthy part 
<lb/>before being any 
<lb/>time on shore 
<lb/>putting the launch 
<lb/>together. It is 
<lb/>beyond the Portuguese 
<lb/>territory where my 
<lb/>work is chiefly 
<lb/>to be done<reg>.</reg></p>

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<lb/><p rend="no-indent">7 I understood that 
<lb/><persName>M<hi rend="sup">r</hi> Laird<reg>'</reg>s</persName> vessel 
<lb/>would draw 
<lb/>5 feet only in 
<lb/>the river but 
<lb/>could be loaded 
<lb/>up to 8 ft for 
<lb/>the sea voyage. 
<lb/>8 ft seems too 
<lb/>much for the 
<lb/>first voyage up 

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<lb/>as it is desirable to 
<lb/>have the <hi rend="underline">first</hi> attempt 
<lb/>successful. Any 
<lb/>blundering, getting 
<lb/>on to banks &amp;c 
<lb/>would be excused 
<lb/>in subsequent 
<lb/>voyages. If it 
<lb/>does not draw 
<lb/>less than 8 ft that 
<lb/>seems too deep 
<lb/>for the purpose till 
<lb/>the river is known </p>

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<lb/><p rend="no-indent">but if we should 
<lb/>get out in May 
<lb/>I think that such 
<lb/>a vessel would go up easily to 
<lb/><placeName>Tett</placeName> or <placeName>Nyungwe</placeName>
<lb/><del type="strikethrough">but</del> for prudence 
<lb/>sake the less she 
<lb/>draws the better<reg>.</reg></p>
<lb/><p>Thanks for the 
<lb/>note from the Foreign 
<lb/>Office<reg>.</reg> I am Dear Sir 
<lb/>truly yours D. Livingstone </p>
			
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