CHAPTER XIV 



THE LIFE DREAM OF LIVINGSTONE 



" The end of the Geographical Feat is only the beginning 

 of the Enterprise." 



" I beg to direct your attention to Africa. I know that 

 in a few years I shall be cut off in that country which is now 

 open. Do not let it be shut again. I go back to Africa to 

 try to make an open path for commerce and Christianity. 

 Do you carry out the work which I have begun. / leave it 

 with you." — David Livingstone. 



If you climb up from the gloom of the Waverley 

 Station, in the city of Edinburgh, and pass out 

 into the sunshine along the grandest street in 

 all the world, you come suddenly on a scene 

 of matchless beauty. High above is the grim 

 old castle, down below the gleaming street, 

 in between the dewy gardens where the mavis 

 still is singing his love song to the morn. One 

 packed mile of Scotland — flowing traffic, fairest 

 women, and four furlongs of those statues to her 

 splendid sons in the foremost files of time. 



There it is ! A simple monument to the 

 great explorer, with Bible, axe, and lion-skin. 

 Heroic : well worthy of Carlyle. Certainly 

 the bravest- hearted emigrant that ever left 



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