One, Perim, reduced his load of about 20 lbs.

of tea by throwing away the lead in which it was rolled, and afterwards about 15 lbs.

of the tea, thereby diminishing our stock to 5 lbs.
[Dr.Livingstone's short stay in England in 1864-5 was mainly taken up with compiling an account of his travels on the Zambesi and Shire: during this time his mother expired in Scotland at a good old age.
When he went back to Africa he took with him, as part of his very scanty travelling equipment, a number of letters which he received from friends at different times in England, and he very often quoted them when he had an opportunity of sending letters home.

We come to an entry at this time which shows that in these reminiscences he had not thus preserved an unmixed pleasure.

He says:--] I lighted on a telegram to-day:--"Your mother died at noon on the 18th June." This was in 1865: it affected me not a little.
FOOTNOTES: [9] Further on we found it called Nkonya.
[10] It will be remembered that this German traveller was murdered near Lake Nyassa.