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The black slab that now marks the resting-place of 

 Livingstone bears this inscription : — 



BROUGHT BY FAITHFUL HANDS 



OVER LAND AND SEA, 



HERE RESTS 



DAVID LIVINGSTONE, 



MISSIONARY, TRAVELLER, PHILANTHROPIST, 



BORN MARCH 19, 1813, 



AT BLANTYRE, LANARKSHIRE. 



DIED MAY 4, 1 1873, 



AT CHITAMBO'S VILLAGE, ILALA. 



For thirty years his life was spent in an unwearied effort to evangelize 

 the native races, to explore the undiscovered secrets, 



and abolish the desolating slave-trade of Central Africa, 



where, with his last words he wrote : 



" All I can say in my solitude is, may Heaven's rich blessing 



come down on every one — American, English, Turk — 



who will help to heal this open sore of the world." 



Along the right border of the stone are the words : — 



TANTUS AMOR VERI, NIHIL EST QUOD NOSCERE MALIM 

 QUAM FLUVII CAUSAS PER SPECULA TANTA LATENTES. 



And along the left border — 



OTHER SHEEP I HAVE WHICH ARE NOT OF THIS FOLD, 



THEM ALSO I MUST BRING, AND THEY SHALL HEAR MY VOICE. 



On the 25th June 1868, not far from the northern 

 border of that lake Bangweolo on whose southern shore 

 he passed away, Dr. Livingstone came on a grave in a 

 forest. He says of it — 



" It was a little rounded mound, as if the occupant 

 sat in it in the usual native way ; it was strewed over 

 with flour, and a number of the large blue beads put on 



1 In the Last Journals the date is 1st May ; on the stone 4th May. The attend- 

 ants could not quite determine the day. 



