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to pray ; he still rested on his knees, his hands were clasped 

 under his head: when they approached him he seemed 

 to live. He had not fallen to right or left when he 

 rendered up his spirit to God. Death required no change 

 of limb or position ; there was merely the gentle settling 

 forwards of the frame unstrung by pain, for the Traveller's 

 perfect rest had come. Will not time show that the men 

 were scarcely wrong when they thought " he yet speaketh " 

 — aye, perhaps far more clearly to us than he could have 

 done by word or pen or any other means ! 



Is it, then, presumptuous to think that the long-used 

 fervent prayer of the wanderer sped forth once more — that 

 the constant supplication became more perfect in weakness, 

 and that from his " loneliness " David Livingstone, with a 

 dying effort, yet again besought Him for whom He laboured 



to break down the oppression and woe of the land ? 



***** 



Before daylight the men were quietly told in each 

 hut what had happened, and that they were to assemble. 

 Coming together as soon as it was light enough to see, 

 Susi and Chumah said that they wished everybody to 

 be present whilst the boxes were opened, so that in case 

 money or valuables were in them, all might be responsible. 

 Jacob Wainwright (who could write, they knew) was asked 

 to make some notes which should serve as an inventory, and 

 then the boxes were brought out from the hut. 



Before he left England in 1865, Dr. Livingstone arranged 

 that his travelling equipment should be as compact as 

 possible. An old friend gave him some exceedingly well- 

 made tin-boxes, two of which lasted out the whole of his 

 travels. In these his papers and instruments were safe from 

 wet and from white ants, which have to be guarded against 

 more than anything else. Besides the articles mentioned 

 below, a number of letters and despatches in various stages 

 Avere likewise enclosed, and one can never sufficiently extol 



