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each, without a single piece of the vessel being lost or 

 thrown away. The noble conduct of the band that for 

 eight months carried his remains towards the coast was a 

 crowning proof of the love he inspired. 



Nearly every day some new token comes to light of 

 the affection and honour with which he was regarded all 

 over Central Africa. On 12th April 1880, the Rev. 

 Chauncy Maples, of the Universities Mission, in a paper 

 read to the Geographical Society, describing a journey to 

 the Rovuma and the Makonde country, told of a man he 

 found there, with the relic of an old coat over his right 

 shoulder, evidently of English manufacture. It turned 

 out, from the man's statement, that ten years ago a white 

 man, the donor of the coat, had travelled with him to 

 Mataka's, whom to have once seen and talked with was 

 to remember for life ; a white man who treated black men 

 as his brothers, and whose memory would be cherished 

 all along the Rovuma Valley after they were all dead and 

 gone ; a short man with a bushy moustache, and a keen 

 piercing eye, whose words were always gentle, and whose 

 manners were always kind ; whom, as a leader, it was a 

 privilege to follow, and who knew the way to the hearts 

 of all men. 



That early and life-long prayer of Livingstone's — that 

 he might resemble Christ — was fulfilled in no ordinary 

 degree. It will be an immense benefit to all future mis- 

 sionaries in Africa that, in explaining to the people what 

 practical Christianity means, they will have but to point 

 to the life and character of the man whose name will 

 stand first among African benefactors in centuries to come. 

 A foreigner has remarked that, " in the nineteenth 

 century, the white has made a man out of the black ; 

 in the twentieth century, Europe will make a world out 

 of Africa." When that world is made, and generation 

 after generation of intelligent Africans look back on its 

 beginnings, as England looks back on the days of King 



