524 LIFE OF DA VID LIVINGSTONE, LL.D. 



by the officers of the ship, and the eldest son of the late traveller, Mr. 

 Thomas Livingstone, who had joined the Malwa at Alexandria. Jacob Wain- 

 wright, a negro follower of Dr. Livingstone, a squat little fellow, barely over 

 five feet in height, was warmly greeted by all. He remembered Mr. Stanley, 

 although the change in his dress and appearance puzzled him for a moment. 

 He was rescued from slavery by Dr. Livingstone, in the valley of the Shire, 

 on the occasion of his second visit to the countries of the Zambesi and the 

 Shire, when a mere boy, and was left, along with several other African 

 natives, at the Nassick School near Bombay, where he was carefully edu- 

 cated. When the Livingstone Search Expedition under Lieutenant Dawson 

 was projected, towards the end of 1871, Jacob Wainwright offered to accom- 

 pany it, and was at Zanzibar when the arrival of Mr. Stanley, who had 

 successfully relieved the great traveller, rendered the expedition unnecessary. 

 Mr. Stanley engaged him and sent him on to Dr. Livingstone along with the 

 men and stores for which the latter was waiting at Unyanyembe. The 

 friends of the deceased were conducted to the room where the body had lain 

 during the voyage. "This apartment," says the correspondent of a London 

 paper "had been draped round with Union Jacks, and the coffin covered 

 with the Company's flag. With bared heads the deputation stood round as 

 the chief officer unlocked the door, and then, as each peeped into what really 

 looked like a neat little mortuary chapel, it was impossible not to feel that 

 the gallant sailor could not have done better with the means at his disposal. 

 . . . The short, bulky external coffin was found to be roughly made of 

 some native wood, stained black, with a few uncouth attempts at ornament- 

 ation, though, no doubt, the best that could be done at Zanzibar. There 

 was an inner coffin, it was said, of soldered zinc." 



In the streets a procession, consisting of the Mayor and Corporation, 

 the friends of the deceased, the deputation of the Geographical Society, and 

 the various public bodies in the town, accompanied the hearse containing the 

 remains to the railway station, where a special train was waiting to convey 

 it to London. While the procession was in progress, the church bells rang a 

 muffled peal, and the Hants Artillery Volunteers fired minute guns from the 

 platform battery. At Waterloo Station a hearse and three mourning carriages 

 were waiting to convey the body and the friends of the deceased to the Geo- 

 graphical Society's rooms in Savile Row. 



In the course of the evening the body was examined by Sir William Fer- 

 gusson, who identified it as that of Dr. Livingstone from the ununited frac- 

 ture on the left arm, caused by the bite of a lion thirty years ago, an account 

 of which will be found at page 39. 



On Saturday, the 18th of April, the remains of Dr. Livingstone found a 

 resting place in Westminster Abbey — in that Valhalla of the greatest and 

 best of England's sons, in which there is no name more worthy of the 



