14 _ Address of Sir R. I. Murchison 
Art. 1V.—Extracts from the Address of Sir Roprricx I. Mur- 
cuison, President of the Royal Geographical Society at the 
Anniversary meeting of the Society, May 27, 1867 
Arrnica.—Dr. Livingstone.—During the last few months our 
thoughts have been directed with painful interest, to the last 
enterprise of our eminent associate, Livingstone. For reasons 
which I have explained at our evening meetings, and also 
through the public press, I have never admitted that there 
existed any valid proof whatever of the death of that great 
traveller. And now that Arab traders have arrived from a spot 
close to the reported scene of the murder, long after the event 
was said to have taken place, and brought to the Sultan of 
Zanzibar the intelligence that he had passed safely into the 
friendly Babisa country to the westward, and that a report has 
arrived at Zanzibar that a white man had reached the Lake 
Tanganyika, we have fresh grounds for hoping that he may now 
-be pursuing his journey in the interior. In truth we have re- 
cently obtained good evidence of the mendacity of the man 
Moosa, on whose statement alone the death was reported—it 
being known that he has given one version of it to the Consul 
and Dr. Kirk at Zanzibar, and also to the British resident at 
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before him as grand a career as was 
“haan explorer, it being now probable that Tanganyika, a 
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