356 DAVID LIVINGSTONE. [chap. xvn. 



if I were not there. When going away in 1858, she said to me that 

 she would have liked one of her laddies to lay her head in the grave. 

 It so happened that I was there to pay the last tribute to a dear good 

 mother." 



The last thing we find him doing in Scotland is 

 attending the examination of Oswell's school, with Anna 

 Mary, and seeing him receive prizes. Dr. Loudon of 

 Hamilton, the medical attendant and much- valued friend of 

 the Livingstones, furnishes us with a reminiscence of this 

 occasion. He had great difficulty in persuading Living- 

 stone to go. The awful bugbear was that he would be 

 asked to make a speech. Being assured that it would be 

 thought strange if, in a gathering of the children's parents, 

 he were absent, he agreed to go. And of course he had 

 to speak. What he said was pointed and practical, and 

 in winding up, he said he had just two things to say to 

 them — " Fear God, and work hard." These appear to 

 have been Livingstone's last public words in his native 

 Scotland. 



His Journal is continued in London : — 



" 8th August. — Went to Zoological Gardens with Mr. Webb and 

 Dr. Kirk; then to lunch with Miss Coutts" [Baroness Burdett Coutts]. 

 " Queen Emma of Honolulu is to be there. It is not fair for High 

 Church people to ignore the labours of the Americans, for [the present 

 state of Christianity] is the fruit of their labours, and not of the 

 present Bishop. Dined at Lady Franklin's with Queen Emma ; a nice 

 sensible person the Queen seems to be. 



" 9th August. — Parted with my friends Mr. and Mrs. Webb at 

 King's Cross station to-day. He gracefully said that he wished I had 

 been coming rather than going away, and she shook me very cordially 

 with both hands, and said, ' You will come back again to us, won't 

 youT and shed a womanly tear. The good Lord bless and save them 

 both, and have mercy on their whole household ! 



" llth August. — Went down to say good-bye to the Duchess- 

 Dowager of Sutherland, at Maidenhead. Garibaldi's rooms are 

 shown : a good man he was, but followed by a crowd of harpies 

 who tried to use him for their own purposes. . . . He was so utterly 

 worn out by shaking hands, that a detective policeman who was 

 with him in the carriage, put his hand under his cloak, and did the 

 ceremony for him. 



