| Description | Chapter 19: 'Home', regarding their departure from Livingstonia, hopes of returning, journey, river Zambezi in spate with crocodile and hippo, wife's illness on board the Union Castle liner, poor behaviour of ship's surgeon, leaving the liner at Durban to stay with relatives, wife's illness diagnosed as ptomaine poisoning, doctor refuses payment but asks for Nyasaland stamps for his collection, embarkation on the Union Castle liner Arundel Castle, good voyage to Cape Town, and entertaining time to Southampton, both much recovered, differences in Scotland since departure, medical examination by Dr. Berkeley Robertson for the Foreign Mission Committee, his prescriptions, lecturing and deputising duties following his recovery through the cold of the Scottish winter, list of parishes visited, writing for various newspapers on mission work, attendance at General Assembly, birth of his daughter, promise of money to build a grain store, last days of furlough. |