xviii CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER XXII. 



FROM UNYANYEMBE TO BANGWEOLO. 

 a.d. 1872-1873. 



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Livingstone's long wait at Unyanyembe — His plan of operations — His fifty- 

 ninth birthday — Renewal of self-dedication — Letters to Agnes — to New 

 Yorh Herald — Hardness of the African battle — Waverings of judgment, 

 whether Lualaba was the Nile or the Congo — Extracts from Journal — 

 Gleams of humour — Natural history — His distress on hearing of the death 

 of Sir Roderick Murchison — Thoughts on mission-work — Arrival of his 

 escort — His happiness in his new men — He starts from Unyanyembe — 

 Illness — Great amount of rain — Near Bangweolo — Incessant moisture — 

 Flowers of the forest — Taking of observations regularly prosecuted — 

 Dreadful state of the country from rain — Hunger — Furious attack of ants 

 — Greatness of Livingstone's sufferings — Letters to Sir Thomas Maclear, 

 Mr. Young, his brother, and Agnes — His sixtieth birthday — Great weak- 

 ness in April — Sunday services and observations continued — Increasing ill- 

 ness — The end approaching — Last written words — Last day of his travels 

 — He reaches Chitambo's village, in Ilala — Is found on his knees dead, on 

 morning of 1st May — Courage and affection of his attendants — His body em- 

 balmed — Carried towards shore — Dangers and sufferings during the march 

 — The party meet Lieutenant Cameron at Unyanyembe — Determine to go 

 on — Ruse at Kasekera — Death of Dr. Dillon — The party reach Bagamoio, 

 and the remains are placed on board a cruiser — The Search Expeditions 

 from England — to East Coast under Cameron — to West Coast under 

 Grandy — Explanation of Expeditions by Sir Henry Rawlinson — Living- 

 stone's remains brought to England — Examined by Sir W. Fergusson and 

 others — Buried in Westminster Abbey — Inscription on slab — Livingstone's 

 wish for a forest grave — Lines from Punch — Tributes to his memory — Sir 

 Bartle Frere — The Lancet — Lord Polwarth — Florence Nightingale, . . 433 



CHAPTER XXIII. 



POSTHUMOUS INFLUENCE. 



History of his life not completed at his death — Thrilling effect of the tragedy 

 of Ilala — Livingstone's influence on the slave-trade — His letters from Man- 

 yuema — Sir Bartle Frere's mission to Zanzibar — Successful efforts of Dr. 

 Kirk with Sultan of Zanzibar — The land route — The sea route — Slave- 

 trade declared illegal — Egypt — The Soudan — Colonel Gordon — Conven- 

 tions with Turkey — King Mtesa of Uganda — Nyassa district — Introduction 

 of lawful commerce — Various commercial enterprises in progress — 

 Influence of Livingstone on exploration — Enterprise of newspapers — 

 Exploring undertakings of various nations — Livingstone's personal service 

 to science — His hard work in science the cause of respect — His influence 



