CHAPTER XXIII. 



Dr. Livingstone's a Last Journals" — Enthusiastic Reception — Eulogistic Reviews 

 by the Secular and Religious Press — Founding of an Industrial Mission at the 

 southern end of Lake Nyassa, as a Memorial to Dr. Livingstone. 



WHILE the concluding sheets of this work were in the press, " Dr. David 

 Livingstone's Last Journals" have been published. The enthusiastic 

 reception which has greeted them from all grades of society throughout the 

 civilised world, and the eulogistic tributes which have been paid, by the 

 leaders of thought in all lands, to the memory of the heroic traveller, and to 

 the work which he has accomplished in Central Africa, attest the depth and 

 the sincerity of that sympathy which has been so widely felt and expressed. 

 At a period when Materialism is making such rapid strides, and when many 

 scientific minds are turning aside from the great truths of Revelation, it is 

 refreshing to meet, in the columns of one of our most influential leading 

 Journals, with such a bearty appreciation of Christian character and work 

 as that which is evinced in the following exhaustive review of the last 

 scenes in the life of the lamented Dr. David Livingstone. In noticing his 

 "Last Journals," the "Daily Telegraph" observes: — 



" These long-looked-for volumes are now placed in our hands, and a 

 sentiment new to the critic, the geographer, and the journalist, must pervade 

 the mind in opening them. Never did book of travel come before the public 

 under circumstances of such pathos and dignity; never were any preserved so 

 strangely, and, we may surely say of David Livingstone's work, so provi- 

 dentially ! We have here a wonderfully rich and full narrative of journeyings 

 accomplished over an enormous space of the unknown portions of Africa, page 

 after page disclosing to us — for the first time, be it remembered — mighty 

 rivers, majestic lakes, great ranges of mountains, nations of men unknown 

 before, with a thousand strange productions, customs, rites, objects, novelties 

 of the floral, the zoological, the mineral worlds — all so thickly cropping up 

 in the Diary of this great Explorer that the language of wonder entirely 

 departs from him. He has evidently lost the habit of being astonished long 

 ere we travel in his society a hundred miles up the Rovuma ; the only things 



