The site chosen was a pleasant spot to the eye, and completely surrounded by stately, shady trees.

It was expected to serve for a residence, till the Bishop had acquired an accurate knowledge of the adjacent country, and of the political relations of the people, and could select a healthy and commanding situation, as a permanent centre of Christian civilization.

Everything promised fairly.
The weather was delightful, resembling the pleasantest part of an English summer; provisions poured in very cheap and in great abundance.

The Bishop, with characteristic ardour, commenced learning the language, Mr.
Waller began building, and Mr.Scudamore improvised a sort of infant school for the children, than which there is no better means for acquiring an unwritten tongue.
On the 6th of August, 1861, a few days after returning from Magomero, Drs.

Livingstone and Kirk, and Charles Livingstone started for Nyassa with a light four-oared gig, a white sailor, and a score of attendants.
We hired people along the path to carry the boat past the forty miles of the Murchison Cataracts for a cubit of cotton cloth a day.