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THE

BRITISH FRIEND:

A Monthly Journal,

CHIEFLY DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS

OF THE

SOCIETY OF FRIENDS.

Stand ye

in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein.”—JER. vi. 16.

VOL. XV.-Nos. I. To XII.

GLASGOW:

WILLIAM AND ROBERT SMEAL.

MDCCCLVII.

INDEX TO VOL. XV.

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Climbing System, Effects of the Commerce with Africa, CORRESPONDENCE:-Dr. Lees' Prize Essay; Alleged Whisky Drinking in the Highlands; Marriage Question, 23. Alms-houses; The Marriage Question; Destitution in the Highlands; Alleged Whisky Drinking in the Highlands; Friends' Institute in Dublin; Our Marriage Laws, Proposed Alterations; Insufficiency of Literal Knowledge in Divine Things, 51. The Marriage Question; Social Parties, Reading Meetings, Oversight; Diverse Action of Monthly Meetings in regard to Marriages; Livings for Sale, 79. Hydropathy, Information for Mothers; Religious Oversight, and Instruction of the Young; Testimonials at a Discount; The Present Crisis, Forthcoming Elections; Punishment of Death; The Marriage Question; Meeting for Sufferings, its Constitution and Duties, 104. Ignorant and Interested Misrepresentations of the Chinese Character; Meeting for Sufferings; Meeting for Sufferings, the Queries; Use of Intoxicating Beverages; Our Marriage Discipline; Proposed Alteration in our Marriage Discipline, 131. The Spirit of Innovation; Church

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Rates; Cumberland Maine Law Pic-Nic, 191. Music; A Word of Tender Caution to the Young; Meeting for Sufferings, its Constitution and Objects, 212. Fashion in Religion; Early Degeneracy in the Church; The Recent Affirmation Bills, 241. Meeting for Sufferings; The Feet of Gamaliel and the Feet of Jesus, 266. India, our Rule there, its Results and Lessons; Meeting for Sufferings, &c., 291 Sermons Warlike and Pacific, 319 Correspondents, To, 28, 56, 84, 110, 136, 166, 195, 219, 246, 273, 300 Cuban Slave Trade, 50 Detached Leaves on Matters connected with the Society of Friends, 19, 41, 94, 130 Divinity of Christ, The 66 Dublin Institute, Fourth Report of, Elijah and the Prophets of Baal, Emlen, Samuel, of Philadelphia, A Short Account of the Last Days of Epistle to Friends of Great Britain, An

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Midland Association for Suppression

of Use of Climbing Boys, &c.,

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Me in the Day of Trouble;" My Sepulchre, 207. Life; The Pilgrims' Wants; Lines by a Young Friend, 233. "The Earth is the Lord's and the Fulness thereof;" Judge Not; Lilies of Jerusalem, 307 Power of the Press in China, . 265 Proceedings in County Courts to Recover Tithes, &c., Prospects of Christianity in Japan,. 179

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Reflections by a Young Female,
Religious Liberty in Sweden,
Reminiscences of a Visit to the
United States,
REVIEWS: The Scottish Review,

55; Vacation Thoughts on Capital Punishments; The Duty of a Rising Christian State, &c.; The Annual Monitor for 1857; The Curse of Britain; The British Workman; The Library of Biblical Literature, 25. Vacation Thoughts on Capital Punishments; The Scottish Review; 51. What is to be Done with our Criminals? 83. Sketches of the Polish Mind; The Leeds Juvenile Series of Anti-Slavery Tracts; The Mirror of the AntiSlavery Struggle, 103; Vacation Thoughts on Capital Punishments; Some Considerations on the Testimony of the Society of Friends against the Payment of Ecclesiastical Tithe Rent Charge; Scottish Review; Dymond's Essays on the Principles of Morality; Exposition of the Rise, Discipline, Christian Doctrines, and Testimonies of the Society of Friends; Report of the Manchester District Tract Association of Friends; Peace; Annual Report of the Edinburgh Ladies' Emancipation Society, 117.

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Memoir of John Sharp; Some Account of the Gospel Labours of Jonathan Burnyeat; How are Increased Supplies of Cotton to be Obtained? The Great Social Question of the Day; The Principles of Moral Insanity, 194. Priesthood and Clergy Unknown to Christianity; Essays on the Accordance of Christianity with the Nature of Man, 215. Emigration to British India, 245. West's Emigration to British India (second notice), 267. Annotations on Dr. D'Aubigné's Sketch of the Early_British Church, 296. Insect Hunters; Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa, Sacred Music, 11 Salutation in the Love of Christ, A 221 Scattergood, Thomas, Anecdotes of &c., 180, 283 Sermon of the Fourteenth Century, A 170 Scriptural Divine Names or Titles, On

Sleep of Plants, The
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Sparing Minutes,

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Monthly Meeting; Lynn Monthly Meeting, 126. The Yearly Meetings, 165. The Twenty-fourth Annual Boston Anti-Slavery Bazaar; Wigton School, 182. Witness Bearing; Plain Dating made Plainer; The late Poisoning Case, 208. Ackworth General Meeting; View of Ury; Quarterly Meeting of Bristol and Somerset, 234. Boston Anti-Slavery Bazaar; The War in India, 262. Balby Monthly Meeting; Indiana Yearly Meeting; The Indian Mutinies; The Fast, and Warlike Sermons; Dress Reform: Slavery of Fashion, 288. British and Foreign Bible Society; Yearly Meetings; Immigration Slave Trade; New Temperance Hall, Birmingham,

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The Temperance Movement as an Educational Force, 278 Thoughts on Missionary Societies, . 121 True Humility, 175 Truth, 13

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211 Varieties, 15, 71, 122, 181, 232, 261, 297 42 Voluntary Party and the General Spring and Opening Leaf, On the, 97 Election, The Story, Thomas 8, 43, 74 Study of the Vegetable Kingdom, . 277 War, Are we Acting in Accordance Sword and the Gospel, The, 301 with our Heavenly Father's Will? &c.,

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THE BRITISH FRIEND-LEADERS:Our Fifteenth Anniversary; Education; Thorp's Letters, 14. The Boston Anti-Slavery Bazaar; Social Parties and Reading Meetings, 42. Friends' First-day Schools; Church Rates; The War with China, 70. Famine in Finland, 98. Lancashire Quarterly Meeting; Our Marriage Regulations; The Skye Boat Scheme; Mansfield

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What is Christian Courtesy?. 231 "Who hath Begotten the Drops of Dew?".

Who Slew All These?

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Wilson, Professor, on Christianity, . 183 Woolman, John, on Political Eco

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BRITISH FRIEND

A Monthly Journal,

CHIEFLY DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS.

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CENTRAL SOUTH AFRICA.

DR. LIVINGSTON'S JOURNEYS AND DISCOVERIES.

ENTERPRISING as our age undoubtedly is, and energetic as are our countrymen in scientific and commercial pursuits, it is a remarkable fact, that so large a part of the African continent should have remained until now a terra incognita, and that the wide-extended blanks which appear even upon our best maps of that portion of the globe should have been supposed to indicate nothing better than sterile sands and arid deserts. But this belief was so early formed, and has been so long fixed in most minds, that we cannot wonder at the extraordinary interest which the recent revelations of Dr. Livingston have awakened, not merely among the general public, but in the most accomplished men of science, whose surprise and delight at his explorations have been proportioned to their capability of appreciating their value. But the tribute thus paid to this heroic missionary is as just as it is high, for the additions which he has made to our knowledge are so full of promise to science, commerce, civilization, and humanity, that it is scarcely possible to exaggerate their importance. Assured that our readers share in this appreciation, and aware that at present the precise line of travel pursued by Dr. Livingston is but imperfectly understood by many, we shall now furnish, what has not yet been given to the public, an outline of Dr. Livingston's travels, which will, we believe, enable the public to form a more intelligent estimate of his gigantic achieve

ments.

The series of Dr. Livingston's exploratory enterprises originated in the highest principles and the noblest aims. During his first journey, he himself has thus described the impulse which induced him to undertake it: "I do not wish to convey hopes of speedily effecting any great work through my own instrumentality; but I hope to be permitted to labour as long as I live beyond other men's line of things, and plant the seed of the gospel where others have not planted, though every excursion for that purpose will involve separation from my family for periods of four or five months." These truly apostolical "excursions" commenced on the 1st of June, 1849, when, accompanied by Messrs. Oswell and Murray, Dr. Liv

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ingston left Kolobeng, his missionary station, in quest of the oft-reported lake, separated from that station by the Kalihari desert, which stretched to the north and north-west, and which, though the attempt to cross it had been repeatedly made, had, up to that time, been found impassable. Aware of those failures, and of their cause, Dr. Livingston, with a sagacity equal to his courage, resolved to open for himself another path to the desired point, which would, he anticipated, diminish the perils of the journey. Instead, therefore, of essaying to cross the desert in a direct course to his destination, availing himself of information carefully gathered from natives, he determined to skirt it, by what he expected would prove a safer, though a more circuitous route.

Kolobeng, Dr. Livingston's starting point, is in 25° S. lat., 26° E. lon. It lies 200 miles north of Kuruman, the station of Dr. R. Moffat, and has been for a considerable time the advanced post of South African Missions. Taking, therefore, a northerly direction, and pursuing it for about 300 miles, and at no slight suffering to themselves and their cattle, from the difficulty of the road and the want of water, they were not less surprised than delighted on emerging, at the end of a month, from a dreary region, the principal productions in which were the camel-thorn and other characteristic growths of the African desert, to find themselves upon the banks of the Zouga, a noble and exquisitely beautiful river, flowing S. E., richly fringed with fruit-bearing and other trees, some of them of gigantic growth, and new to our travellers.

Received with a frank and evidently cordial welcome from the Bayeire, the natives of the soil, and learning from them that the Zouga flowed out of the Lake Ngami, which was still 300 miles distant, Dr. Livingston, while his waggon slowly followed the windings of the stream, embarked in a rude native canoe, hollowed out of the trunk of a tree, and, paddled by these inland sailors, he proceeded up the Zonga, calling on his way at many of the villages which nestled in the broad belt of reeds, or amongst the limestone rocks which form its margin. As he advanced, the stream flowed wider and deeper, and the missionary's heart expanded with the hope that it would prove one of the highways through which Christianity and its attendants, civilization and commerce,

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