336 LIVINGSTONE'S LAST JOURNEY 



Three days later, among those who had worked with him and 

 for him, in the presence of the mighty dead as well as the mighty living, 

 he was laid to rest in Westminster Abbey. Moffat and Oswell, Steele 

 and Webb, Waller and Kirk, Young and Stanley, were there to pay 

 a last tribute of affection to their old comrade; and all who were 

 present were closely drawn to him through ties of admiration for his 

 character and sympathy for his cause. In former years, when he 

 returned from Africa, he had received the ringing welcome of a nation. 

 Upon that day when he came again for the last time, as he was laid to 

 rest in the Abbey, that nation, stricken with grief though hardly yet 

 aware of all his greatness, bade him a mute farewell. 



