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cruisers conveyed the Acting Consul, Captain Prideaux, 

 froni Zanzibar to the spot which the cortege had reached. 

 Arrangements were quickly made for transporting the 

 remains of Dr. Livingstone to the Island some thirty miles 

 distant, and then it became perhaps rather too painfully 

 plain to the men that their task was finished. 



One word on a subject which will commend itself to most 

 before we close this long eventful history. 



We saw what a train of Indian Sepoys, Johanna men, 

 Nassick boys, and Shupanga canoemen, accompanied Dr. 

 Livingstone when he started from Zanzibar in 1866 to enter 

 upon his last discoveries : of all these, five only could answer 

 to the roll-call as they handed over the dead body of their 

 leader to his countrymen on the shore whither they had 

 returned, and this after eight years' desperate service. 



Once more we repeat the names of these men. Susi and 

 James Chuma have been sufficiently prominent through- 

 out — hardly so perhaps has Amoda, their comrade ever since 

 the Zambesi days of 1864 : then we have Abram and Ma- 

 bruki, each with service to show from the time he left the 

 Nassick College with the Doctor in 1865. Nor must we 

 forget Ntoaeka and Halima, the two native girls of whom we 

 have heard such a good character : they cast in their lot 

 with the wanderers in Manyuema. It does seem strange 

 to hear the men say that no sooner did they arrive at their 

 journey's end than they were so far frowned out of notice, 

 that not so much as a passage to the Island was offered 

 them when their burden was borne away. We must hope 

 that it is not too late — even for the sake of consistency 

 — to put it on record that whoever assisted Livingstone, 

 whether white or black, has not been overlooked in Eng- 

 land. Surely those with whom he spent his last years must 

 not pass away into Africa again unrewarded, and lost to 

 sight. 



Yes, a very great deal is owing to these five men, and 



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