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cling to the hope as long as they could, until some decisive evidence was 

 obtained." 



Sir Samuel Baker, the great Nile traveller and discoverer of the Albert 

 Nyanza lake, and recently the leader of an expedition sent by the Viceroy of 

 Egypt into the interior of Africa to put down the Slave trade, said — 



" The news of Livingstone's death lay so heavily upon his mind that he 

 could not speak of the lake system of Africa without first expressing his opinion 

 respecting the fate of the great traveller. From his personal experience in 

 Africa of nearly five years, he was compelled to differ in opinion from Sir 

 Roderick Murchison. For his part he felt perfectly certain, from the evidence 

 that had been laid before them, that they should see Livingstone's face no 

 more. To him, who knew the native character, which was the same — exceed- 

 ingly brutal and savage — throughout Africa, it was no wonder Livingstone 

 was killed : it was only a wonder that one man out of a hundred ever returned 

 from that abominable country. The death of Livingstone had given a check 

 to African exploration, and he felt perfectly convinced that for a long time to 

 come the centre of Africa would be closed to us. . . He felt certain that 

 no individual enterprise would ever open Africa, except to this extent — that 

 an unfortunate traveller, weary and toilworn, might return to the Geographical 

 Society, and state with all humility the little that he had done. With regard 

 to Livingstone, he was perfectly convinced that, as Baron Von der Decken 

 and Dr. Roscker had been killed, and Mrs. Livingstone had left her bones in 

 Africa, so Livingstone had fallen a sacrifice ; and although they could not 

 erect a monument to his memory on the place where he fell, yet his name' 

 would live in their hearts as that of a man who had nobly done his duty." 



Mr. Horace Waller said " he was with Dr. Livingstone many months in 

 Africa on the Shire river, and knew many of these people whose names had 

 been mentioned to the meeting. He had met men of the Mazitu tribe. They 

 are a terror to the Portuguese; and although Dr. Kirk imagined that they 

 crossed to the northward of the Zambesi forty years ago, he was led to believe 

 that the particular band, who were killing everybody right and left throughout 

 the country, only crossed in 1856. It had been stated in the public papers that 

 Dr Livingstone, before he struck the lake, had been in collision with the slave- 

 dealers. He had the pleasure of telling them, from letters he had received 

 within the last few days from Zanzibar, that Livingstone had not been in colli- 

 sion at all with the slave-dealers. As to A.li Moosa, he knew him very well ; 

 he was the head of these twelve Johanna men ; but he was thoroughly untruth- 

 ful, and would lie through thick and thin whenever it answered his purpose. 

 Moosa was a man he would not put confidence in at all. But Dr. Kirk had 

 been there : he knew Moosa, and he knew all the men, and he was the most 

 likely man of all who had been upon that coast to come to a sound conclu- 

 sion. He may say he placed faith in the sagacity of Dr. Kirk, and whatever 



