Explorers and their Explorations 45 
travel through an unhealthy country, and this in a rainy 
season, which combination of circumstances meant death to 
a weakened frame. Lower and lower he sank, yet ever 
pushing forward," until this "prince of pioneers " died in 
a lonely hut at Illala, on the night of May 4th, 1873. The 
faithful band who accompanied Livingstone, embalmed his 
body after a primitive fashion, and wrapping up the corpse 
so as to remove the appearance of its being a dead body, 
bore their burden faithfully, through all sorts of obstacles, 
over a thousand miles of country, to Zanzibar, where it 
was reverently coffined, and shipped for England. David 
Livingstone lies now in Westminster Abbey, a hero among 
heroes, a prince among princes. And, although vanished 
from the land of his adoption and the work of his hearf s 
best love, his words remain with us, urging to fresh con- 
quests on behalf of Christ's kingdom. 
Sir Samuel Baker's travels and explorations were confined 
principally to the Egyptian, Soudan, and Nile regions. This 
gentleman was commissioned by the Khedive to suppress 
the slave-trade of the White Nile, and to annex a large 
portion of equatorial territory to Egypt. This was done, at 
least to a very large extent ; commerce was encouraged, a 
form of government established which promised protection 
to the people, and the way opened up for the introduction 
of mission labour, and mission agents. By the accomplish- 
ment of these ends, the great lakes of Central Africa were 
opened up to traffic, and safety of life and limb secured to 
travellers, whether missionary, scientific, or trading. Sii 
Samuel found that the country of the White Nile was sub- 
jected to a regular system of brigandage. In order to secure 
the needed supply of slaves for the markets, various mer- 
chants of Khartoum, subjects of the Egyptian Government, 
were in the habit of occupying fixed stations in special 
