VALUABLE SERVICES OF SUSI AND CHUMA. 781 



A very great deal is owing to these five men, and we say it 

 emphatically. If the world has gratified a reasonable wish in 

 learning all that concerns the last days on earth of a truly noble 

 countryman and his wonderful enterprise, the means of doing 

 so could never have been placed at our disposal but for the 

 ready willingness which made Susi and Chuma determine, if 

 possible, to render an account to some of those whom they had 

 known as their master's old companions. If the geographer 

 finds before him new facts, new discoveries, new theories, as 

 Livingstone alone could record them, it is right and proper that 

 he should feel the part these men have played in furnishing 

 him with such valuable matter. Nothing but such leadership 

 and staunchness as that which organized the march home from 

 Illala, and distinguished it throughout, could have brought 

 Livingstone's bones to England, or his last notes and maps to 

 the outer world. They performed their service nobly. 



The mournful tidings was quickly conveyed to London, and 

 it thrilled the world with sorrow. A few days only the un- 

 willing hearts of friends entertained trembling hope that there 

 might be a mistake : the confirmation was inevitable; the pain- 

 ful anxiety was relieved by the more painful certainty. Those 

 who had watched with deepest interest the life of the great man 

 could only wait with deepest sadness to welcome his lifeless 

 body back to burial ; the world could only wait for the final 

 story, that it might embalm the complete life in its reverence 

 and memory. 



The precious freight was shipped from Zanzibar in February, 

 in care of Mr. Arthur Young. There was the body, and with 

 it all the books, papers, and personal effects of Dr. Livingstone. 

 At Aden Mr. Young was joined by Mr. Thomas Livingstone, 

 the oldest son of the missionary, a mercantile agent in Egypt, 

 and all was reshipped in the " Mai wa" for England. When 

 the ship arrived at Southampton a deputation of the Royal 

 Geographical Society, with a few of the personal friends of Dr. 

 Livingstone, were awaiting it, and were conducted to the mail 

 room, where the coffin lay in lonely state, wrapped with the 

 flags of the Peninsular and Oriental Company, guarded by 

 Jacob Wainwright, a faithful sentinel, who had been aMowed to 

 represent the noble men who had so bravely brought the bur- 



