I see Tattam advertised by John Russell Smith, 4 Old Compton Street, Soho, London,--'Tattam (H.), _Lexicon Egyptiaco-Latinum e veteribus linguae Egyptiacae monumentis; _ thick 8vo, bds., 10s., Oxf., 1835.' Will you purchase the above for me?" [Footnote 28: This gives a correct idea of the length of many of his letters.] At Mabotsa and Chonuane the Livingstones had spent but a little time; Kolobeng may be said to have been the only permanent home they ever had. During these years several of their children were born, and it was the only considerable period of their lives when both had their children about them. Looking back afterward on this period, and its manifold occupations, whilst detained in Manyuema, in the year 1870, Dr. Livingstone wrote the following striking words: The heart that felt this one regret in looking back to this busy time must have been true indeed to the instincts of a parent. But Livingstone's case was no exception to that mysterious law of our life in this world, by which, in so many things, we learn how to correct our errors only after the opportunity is gone. Of all the crooks in his lot, that which gave him so short an opportunity of securing the affections and moulding the character of his children seems to have been the hardest to bear. His long detention at Manyuema appears, as we shall see hereafter, to have been spent by him in learning more completely the lesson of submission to the will of God; and the hard trial of separation from his family, entailing on them what seemed irreparable loss, was among the last of his sorrows over which he was able to write the words with which he closes the account of his wife's death in the _Zambesi and its Tributaries_,--"FIAT, DOMINE, VOLUNTUS TUA!" CHAPTER VI KOLOBENG _continued_--LAKE 'NGAMI. A.D. 1849-1852.