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tions being obeyed, he took out a bottle of calomel, told SusI to put 

 it, an empty cup, and one with a little water in it, within reach of 

 his hand, and then added in a very low voice, "All right; you can 

 go out now." 



This was the last sentence ever spoken by Livingstone in 

 human hearing. At about 4 A. M. Majwara came once more to 

 call Susi, saying ''Come to Bwana (his name for Livingstone) ; I 

 am afraid. I don't know if he is alive." 



Susi, noticing the boy's terror, and fearing the worst, now 

 aroused five of his comrades, and with them entered the doctor's 

 hut, to find the great explorer kneeling, as if in prayer, by the side 

 of his bed, "his head buried in his hands upon the pillow." 



"For a minute," says Dr. Waller, "they watched him; he did 

 not stir; there was no sign of breathing; then one of them advanced 

 softly to him and placed his hands to his cheeks." It was enough ; 

 Livingstone was dead. He had probably expired soon after Susi 

 left him, dying as he had lived, in quiet unostentatious reliance upon 

 his divine Father. "History," says Banning, one of the members 

 of the Brussels Conference, "contains few pages more touching, 

 or of a more sublime character, than the simple narrative of this 

 silent and solitary death of a great man, the martyr to a great 



cause." 



A MARTYR TO A GREAT CAUSE. 



Thus ended the career of the greatest hero of modern geo- 

 graphical discovery, and of one of the noblest-hearted philanthrop- 

 ists of the present century. Very sadly, very tenderly, very rever- 

 ently Livingstone's servants laid the corpse of their beloved master 

 on his bed, and retired to consult together round their watch-fire 

 as to what should next be done. 



The following day it was unanimously decided that Susi and 

 Chumah, who were "old men in traveling and in hardship," should 

 act as captains of the caravan, the other men engaged promising 

 faithfully to obey them. 



All agreed further that the body of Livingstone must be pre- 

 served and carried back to Zanzibar. With the ready co-operation 



H. B. G.— 15 



