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twisted like a corkscrew and bearing the in- 

 scription on a silver plate which is fixed into the 

 ivory, 'From David Livingstone to Richard Owen.' 

 This tusk, which is of considerable weight, the 

 Professor could hold out firmly at arm's length, 

 even in old age. There are frequent references 

 in the diary to visits which Livingstone paid to 

 Sheen Lodge. On one occasion, in the early 

 spring, Mrs. Owen writes : ' I asked the Doctor 

 at dinner the feelings he had when the lion seized 

 and crunched his arm, especially whether the 

 physical pain was great when the lion bit it again 

 and again. He said : " No, not very great. A 

 feeling of faintness was most observable." I 

 asked him whether the suffering was greatest 

 afterwards. He said : " By far." The left arm is 

 the injured one : the tendons act well, but the 

 bone has not joined properly. It seems, from 

 what R. told me afterwards, that there is little 

 chance that an operation will succeed. Livingstone 

 is going to take advice from Sir Benjamin Brodie 

 as to a fresh division of the broken pieces of bones, 

 so as to join them again. Dr. Livingstone told me 

 he would like to be back in Africa in June at the 

 latest, and he is anxious to complete his book before 

 that time.' 



Owen gave as much help as he could to Living- 

 stone in looking over his MS., &c. ; but the book 

 took him longer than he anticipated. ' Poor 

 Livingstone,' Owen writes as late as July 1857, 'he 



