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we say it emphatically. If the nation 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. For we repeat 

 that nothing but such leadership and staunchness as that 

 which organized the march home from Ilala, and dis- 

 tinguished it throughout, could have brought Livingstone's 

 bones to our land or his last notes and maps to the outer 

 world. To none does the feat seem so marvellous as to those 

 who know Africa and the difficulties which must have beset 

 both the first and the last in the enterprise. Thus in his 

 death, not less than in his life, David Livingstone bore 

 testimony to that goodwill and kindliness which exists in 

 the heart of the African. 



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