Corpus of Modern Scottish Writing (CMSW) - www.scottishcorpus.ac.uk/cmsw/ Document : 194 Title: Letter from Livingston to Murray3, 1858 Author(s): Livingstone, David Kongone harbour 5th October 1858 My dear Mr Murray Two Dutch clergymen at the Cape were once lighted on comfortably lodged in the house of a rebel who had a few days before had been actively engaged in the murder of the Honble Captain Murray and a number of soldiers at Boomplaats I did not want to see them but there they were. and they not only circulated a tale of scandal to the effect that a black metal pot I once lent to a chief was a common the consequence was I was refused a supply of gunpowder at the Cape when departing on my great journey They cannot forgive me for seeing them as they were stultifying the Government by apparently fraternizing with the rebels. They said nothing while I had an ovation & £800 in Cape Town but when I am some hundreds of miles off make an attack not on the text but on a footnote in which I mention their way of getting land for the church in a commendatory style they evidently feel that if they can prove a single point erroneous they are safe — and one a Scotchman Dr Robertson has written to me and threatens to write to you too — he makes an assertion that the stipend is so much but leaves out of view the etceteras which make it much more — I answer him and think he will scarcely publish my answer as I refer pointedly to our former meeting in the rebel's house & the onus of publication rests with him — If he likes to publish his own. Shame he may [I] write this in great haste We have got no end of the finest coal — It is like the Welsh I burned a ton and a half in coming down from Tette My men recieved me in transports of joy. Thirty of them died of small pox and six were killed by a rebel chief. Sekwebus' principal servant is now with me. I leave tomorrow morning again for Tette — Party all well. Kind regards to Cook & Mrs M. Mrs L is off for Kuruman with her father and mother I am [&c] David Livingstone Oct 5 — 1858 Livingstone, Revd Dr