I wonder if disabled Indian missionaries could not make themselves useful there." During the voyage his chief friend was the captain of the ship.

"He was very obliging to me," says Livingstone, "and gave me all the information respecting the use of the quadrant in his power, frequently sitting up till twelve o'clock at night for the purpose of taking lunar observations with me." Thus another qualification was acquired for his very peculiar life-work.

Sundays were not times of refreshing, at least not beyond his closet.

"The captain rigged out the church on Sundays, and we had service; but I being a poor preacher, and the chaplain addressing them all as Christians already, no moral influence was exerted, and even had there been on Sabbath, it would have been neutralized by the week-day conduct.

In fact, no good was done." Neither at Rio, nor on board ship, nor anywhere, could good be done without the element of personal character.