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Passing inside, they looked toward the bed. Dr. Livingstone 

 was not lying on it, but appeared to be engaged in prayer, and 

 they instinctively drew backward for the instant. Pointing to 

 him, Majwara said, " When I lay down he was just as he is now, 

 and it is because I find that he does not move that I fear he is 

 dead." They asked the lad how long he had slept? Majwara 

 said he could not tell, but he was sure that it was some consider- 

 able time : the men drew nearer. 



A candle, stuck by its own wax to the top of the box, shed a 

 light sufficient for them to see his form. Dr. Livingstone was 

 kneeling by the side of his bed, his body stretched forward, his 

 head buried in his hands upon the pillow. For a minute they 

 watched him : he did riot stir, there was no sign of breathing ; 

 then one of them, Matthew, advanced softly to him and placed 

 his hands to his cheeks. It was sufficient ; life had been extinct 

 some time, and the body was almost cold : Livingstone was dead. 



His sad-hearted servants raised him tenderly up and laid him 

 full length on the bed ; then, carefully covering him, they went 

 out into the damp night air to consult together. It was not long 

 before the cocks crew, and it is from this circumstance coupled 

 with the fact that Susi spoke to him some time shortly before 

 midnight that we are able to state with tolerable certainty that 

 he expired early on the 1st of May. 



Livingstone had not merely turned himself ; he had risen to 

 pray ; he still rested on his knees, his hands were clasped under 

 his head : when they approached him he seemed to live. He had 

 not fallen to right or left when he rendered up his spirit to God. 

 Death required no change of limb or position ; there was merely 

 the gentle settling forward of the frame unstrung by pain, for 

 the Traveler's perfect rest had come. 



HONOR TO THE NOBLE DEAD. 



CALLING the whole party together, Susi and Chuma placed the 

 state of affairs before them, and asked what should I>e done. 

 They received a reply from those whom Mr. Stanley had engaged 

 for Dr. Livingstone, which was hearty and unanimous. " You," 

 said they, " are old men. in traveling aud in. hardship! ; you must 



