308 LIVINGSTONE'S LAST JOURNALS. [Chap. XII. 



It must have been about 4 a.m. when Susi heard Majwara's 

 step once more. " Come to Bwana, I am afraid ; I don't 

 know if he is alive." The lad's evident alarm made Susi 

 run to arouse Chmnah, Chowpere, Matthew, and Muan- 

 yasere, and the six men went immediately to the hut. 



Passing inside they looked towards the bed. Dr. Living- 

 stone was not lying on it, but appeared to be engaged in 

 prayer, and they instinctively drew backwards for the instant. 

 Pointing to him, Majwara said, " When I lay down he was 

 just as he is now, and it is because I find that he does not 

 move that I fear he is dead." They asked the lad how long 

 he had slept ? Majwara said he could not tell, but he was 

 sure that it was some considerable time : the men drew 

 nearer. 



A candle stuck by its own wax to the top of the box, 

 shed a light sufficient for them to see his form. Dr. Living- 

 stone was kneeling by the side of his bed, his body stretched 

 forward, his head buried in his hands upon the pillow. For 

 a minute they watched him: he did not stir, there was 

 no sign of breathing ; then one of them, Matthew, advanced 

 softly to him and placed his hands to his cheeks. It was 

 sufficient; life had been extinct some time, and the body 

 was almost cold : Livingstone was dead. 



His sad-hearted servants raised him tenderly up, and 

 laid him full length on the bed, then, carefully covering him, 

 they went out into the damp night air to consult together. 

 It was not long before the cocks crew, and it is from this 

 circumstance — coupled with the fact that Susi spoke to him 

 some time shortly before midnight — that we are able to 

 state with tolerable certainty that he expired early on the 

 1st of May. 



It has been thought best to give the narrative of these 

 closing hours as nearly as possible in the words of the 

 two men who attended him constantly, both here and in 

 the many illnesses of like character which he endured in 



