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After the identification the remains were placed in a simple 

 casket. A last resting-place had been assigned it in Westminster 

 Abbey. On Saturday, April 18, 1874, it was borne thither 

 amid such testimonies of profound respect as did honor to the 

 metropolis. The name and achievements of Livingstone were 

 a talisman which gathered within the walls of that venerable 

 abbey a throng of mourners as unique and diverse as were ever 

 assembled by an open grave. There were distinguished states- 

 men, and explorers, and missionaries, and hunters. And ming- 

 ling with them the honored clergymen and laymen who had co- 

 operated with him in establishing the Zanzibar Mission. Men 

 of all callings and creeds, sorrowfully glad to testify their rev- 

 erence for the philanthropist, the patriot and Christian. Nearest 

 the coffin, as it was carried up the splendid aisle, were the chil- 

 dren, Thomas S., Agnes, William Oswell, and Anna Mary 

 Livingstone. One, bearing a familiar name, Robert, whose 

 childish sweetness so won the heart of Sebituane, had fallen 

 years before, under the assumed name of Rupert, on our own 

 soil, and rested in an unknown soldier's grave. Next to the 

 children were two sorrowing sisters of the explorer, and the 

 wife of Mr. Charles Livingstone, and with them there was the 

 white-bearded patriarch, Robert Moffat, who had given him his 

 daughter Mary in marriage at distant Kuruman. Behind these 

 came the Duke of Sutherland, the Lord Advocate of Scotland, 

 Lords Shaftesbury and Houghton, Sir Bartle Frere, Dr. Lion 

 Playfair, Sir H. Rawlinson, Lord Lawrence, Sir F. Buxton, 

 the Honorable Arthur Kinnaird, and a long procession com- 

 posed of the Geographical savants of Great Britain. The soft, 

 grand, solemn strains of funeral song filled the place. The 

 burial service was read by Dean Stanley, assisted by Canons 

 Conway and Leighton. A wreath of flowers, with a card on 

 which was written, "A tribute of respect and admiration from 

 Queen Victoria," was placed on the casket, just over the simple 

 inscription : 



David Livingstone, 



Born at Blantyre, Lanarkshire, Scotland, 



March 19, 1813. 



Died at Illala, Central Africa, 



May 4, 1S73. 



