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Shupanga 18th Decr One of the missionaries informs me that the

                        River Zambesi 15th Decr

                                            R. 22 July 1862

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    Dear Admiral Washington

          We came from Johanna to the
Latitude of the Kongone in five days during
two which without steam and a light head
wind we were carried 60 miles a day.
10Our coals were expended when we made the
land. We could have gone into Namiara
or Nyamiara a double mouthed port about
30 miles from Luabo but were afraid to run
a risk in a spot we did not know except
15by Portuguese reports with wind blowing
freshly on shore, so we bore away with
sails to Quilimaine River - cut wood
there, and came round to Kongone. We
find the Zambesi very low but the water
20is rising, and we shall be towing the Lady
Nyassa up in about a week. I shall feel
immensely relieved when fairly at that
work. the oxen & mules are in good con-
dition and promise fairly to facilitate
25our labours.

Thanks for Captain Maury's work.
It is exceedingly interesting. Had we possessed
it sooner we should have looked abroad
with more intelligent interest - the black
30indigo colour of the sea tells when we are
in the current - we noticed this both in
going and coming. In the hollow south of
Mosambique & west of 38º E. there seems to
be no current except near the shore

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the slaving is going on from Shire to Tette at the rate of 100

and there it is towards the North. We have
been twice decieved by being too clever -
making allowance for a current to the
5south and finding we made the land
just where we steered for North of our
port.

My Chief object in writing at present
is to beg you to transmit (£10) Ten Pounds
10from Quarter-master Collyer to Mrs
Collyer 13 Bilbury St. Plymouth
to be payable at Devonport Dockyard
this sum is additional to what she has
been regularly drawing

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Also to Mrs Magrath Ten Pounds
(£10) from Qr Master Magrath - this too
is additional - her address is Mrs
Magrath. Dawlish; Devonshire:

And to Sarah Jane Saunders
20from our carpenter to be drawn as
additional to what she now draws
at Portsmouth Dockyard, Five Pounds
(£5) her address is - Sarah Jane
Saunders 16 Plymouth St. Southsea.

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Also £5. to Mrs Pearce, 46 Albion
Brighton - she is mother of the man
who sends it and does not draw anything
regularly - we recieved him from the
Ariel. All are well behaved men.

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per week I feel inclined to hang a few of the blackgaurds

We hear that Thornton is up at
Senna waiting I suppose for some one
to take him to Gorongoza - mountains
5with inscriptions west of that village
We did not take him with us to
the Rovuma because we left
with the intention of going down to
the sea for provisions only and
10to send home our Johanna crew
We have eleven new Johanna men
at Kroomen's wages - they promise
to be very useful. They scarcely
ever have fever and dont
15fraternize with the natives.

I see Pocket Aneroids mentioned
in the Journal of the Society of Arts,
we were unfortunate enough to
break 2 common barometers - one
20by a hawser light dropping down
the skylight and other by two natives
fighting and tumbling down into the
saloon. Will you favour us
with a couple of pocket Aneroids
25they are by Messrs Frankham &
Wilson of Wilson St. Grays inn Road
and are mentioned in the journal
for May 16th 1862. they are said to
be improvements but you will be
30able to judge whether there is anything
in this - the mountain Barometer 0004
came out smashed & so was one of the
boiling point instruments - Mr May brought
no fowling pieces - my private one is
much too heavy. Indeed it is an elephant
5gun as well, I bought another fowling
piece lighter for £10 (private) and it does
not carry well. Both those we brought
from Govt were very good but one
is quite used up.

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We shall not come down till
January of £1864. Our fresh meats
and groceries will then be quite
done. Please think of this at your
convenience.

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The Makololo mission is about
to be renewed. Mr Moffat senior who
established one with Mosilikatze will
probably help and so will his son.
Poor Helmore & his party it turns out
20used no medicine except a little
Dover's powder!

Two carpenters - Two masons - one
smith and a headman - an Englishman
(the rest being Scotch) set out from
25London to form a settlement near us,
working at their trades the wages going to
a common fund: they bought two waggons
and were proposing to go overland when
the magistrate who testifies to their good
30conduct at Ahival North, Cape Colony
laid the case before the Governor. His
Excellency consulted me about sending
them by sea. They seem to be the men who
will suit our plans much better than
35those who have been employed by the
mission of the Universities

David Livingstone