594 LIFE OF DAVID LIVINGSTONE, LL.D. 



in itself is a monument of honour to the country from which the traveller 

 drew his blood — is in the reflection that it is the last appeal of Livingstone to 

 the British people, and the legacy to them, as his heirs, of undying hostility 

 to slavery, of love and pity for the African continent, and its suffering, un- 

 friended, desolate children." 



The following appreciative notice of "Livingstone's Last Journals" by 

 the " Christian World " affords another specimen of the manner in which the 

 religious as well as the secular press delighted to do honour to the memory 

 and to the work of the great Philanthropist: — " There was perhaps no man 

 in whom so large a proportion of the English-speaking race took such an 

 affectionate interest as in the heroic traveller, and to whose researches men 

 of so many different classes and characters looked for the information which 

 specially concerned and moved them. The trader listened eagerly to hear 

 from him of new staples for manufacture — of new openings for commerce ; 

 the statesman watched to see whether he might discover lands suited to 

 receive the surplus population of old and densely-crowded countries; the 

 man of science scanned his account of new plants, new fish, new apes, new 

 mountains, lakes, and rivers ; and that portion of the community — a portion 

 which cannot be called small — which desires beyond all else that the good 

 tidings that Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners should be car- 

 ried to the utmost corners of the earth, expected from him full and trust- 

 worthy information upon that matter which, to them as to him, was the im- 

 pelling motive and grand object of African exploration Not a 



single entry in Dr. Livingstone's journals has been lost from the time of his 

 leaving Zanzibar in 1866 until ' his note-book dropped from his hand in the 

 village of Ilala, at the end of April, 1873.' He had always been careful and 

 diligent, and it was his custom to post up at moments of leisure in the large 

 Diary the daily jottings entered in metallic note-books which it was his cus- 

 tom to carry with him. But in the last three or four years of his life he had 

 been unable, through toil, exhaustion, and distressing illness, to carry out 

 this rule. His note-books, besides, as well as his ink and pencils, ran out, 

 and he had to resort to various shifts to supply the deficiency. At last ' old 

 newspapers, yellow with African damp, were sewn together, and his notes 

 were written acr oss the type with a substitute for ink made from the juice 

 of a tree.' 



" The faithfulness and courage of Chumah and Susi, the native attend- 

 ants upon Livingstone in his last moments, entitle them to a place in one 

 group with the master whom they so devotedly served. Africans have an 

 intense horror of dead bodies, and it is often difficult to get them to carry 

 corpses to the grave. But Chumah and Susi, and about half-a-dozen other 

 followers of Livingstone, including two native girls, Ntoaeka and Halinia, 

 not only overcame this horror, but carried his remains from ' the banks of 



