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West Coast of Africa — a position which gave him much opportunity for doing 

 good to the heathen, which he embraced with great zeal and success. Last 

 year, his health having broken down, he started on his return to England, 

 but died on the passage home. Dr. Livingstone's sisters, Janet and Agnes, 

 removed with their parents to Hamilton in 1841, where they still reside. 

 They are both unmarried, and are held in much respect by their neighbours 

 for their Christian character and genial worth. 



Dr. Livingstone's family have resided principally in Hamilton since his 

 departure on his last expedition in 1866. His eldest son, to use his father's 

 words in a letter to Sir Bartle Frere, written in 1868, "wandered into the 

 American war," and must have been killed, as he has never been heard of 

 since the close of one of the early battles before Richmond. His second son, 

 Mr. Thomas E. Livingstone, represents a large commercial house in Alexan- 

 dria. His third son, Mr. W. Oswell Livingstone, is at present completing his 

 medical education at the Glasgow University. His eldest daughter, who was 

 a great favourite of her father, and to whom he entrusted the custody of his 

 papers sent home by Mr. Stanley, resides in Hamilton, where her younger 

 sister is at present receiving her education. 



Up to the present time, the Livingstone family have done honour to the 

 injunction of their progenitor recorded at page 2. At a time when the 

 morals of his neighbours where of a somewhat loose description, he did not 

 on his death-bed tell his children to strive to be distinguished, or to become 

 rich, but to be honest, as all their forefathers had been. The generations of 

 his successors, with whom the achievements of Dr. Livingstone have made 

 us acquainted, have more than obeyed the dying counsel of their highland 

 ancestor. To honesty they have added godliness, and from among them 

 has come the man of all others in this nineteenth century who will stand 

 highest with his countrymen for the noblest human characteristics — self- 

 denial, intrepidity, and love to God and his fellow-men. His life from eai'ly 

 manhood has been a continual sacrifice offered up for the material and spiri- 

 tual welfare of a vast people, of whose existence in the mysterious heart of 

 the African continent modern commerce and Christian missions were pre- 

 viously unaware. 



That he should have died on his homeward journey, after nearly a 

 quarter of a century of successful exploration in hitherto unknown countries, 

 is a dispensation of Providence to which we must reverently bow. His fate 

 forms one more instance in the annals of heroic effort and self-sacrifice, where 

 the human instrument of God's great purpose has been removed in the very 

 hour of success, when rest and peace, and human rewards and acknowledg- 

 ments, were awaiting him at the close of his stirring conflict. Though 

 weary, worn, and broken in body, we may readily believe that his un- 

 daunted spirit remained to him at the last; and he would be thankful to 



