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the lotus and papyrus are common. The latter grows about eight feet 
high, and has a crown about three feet across. In some parts they 
extend for miles on the borders of the lake. Several considerable 
rivers were crossed besides the Chambeze, and the number of fish 
caught by the natives in weirs, baskets, or nets was prodigious. 
For some days in April Livingstone could only enter the date in 
his journal, and his last entry, evidently made with great effort, 
was ''''April 27th. — Knocked up quite, and remain . . . recover . , . sent 
to buy milch goats. We are on the banks of the MoHamo." He 
could not write what he wished to do. At length Chitambo's village 
was reached on the south of the lake, but Livingstone was in a 
most feeble state. Many of the natives were away looking after 
their crops, and their empty huts afforded shelter for the party. 
At length the end came. With great difficulty Livingstone selected 
some medicine from his chest, took it, and said to his man Susi, about 
midnight, "All right ; you can go out now." At four o'clock, on 
going into the hut on the morning of May 4th, 1873, his men found 
him kneeling -by the side of his rude bed, but lifeless. His toilsome 
labours for so many years on Africa's behalf were ended, and alone 
with God he committed his spirit to Him. 
With one entry from his journal, made about seven months before, 
we close our account — " The spirit of missions is the spirit of our 
Master J the very genius of His religion. . . . It requires perpetual 
propagation to attest its gemmtenessr 
The story of the bold and faithful determination of his men to 
preserve their master's body,* and to bear it to the sea coast is well 
known. Taking up their burden, but disguising what it was, lest 
alarm should be created in the superstitious minds of the natives, the 
men journeyed round the west shore, crossed the great river Luapula, 
and turning eastward they at length hit on the route by which they 
had come from Tanganyika, and made their way to Ujiji, and in 
course of time the body, thus conveyed from the centre of Africa, 
reached Zanzibar, was thence sent by steamer to England, and found 
a resting-place in Westminster Abbey. 
One other remark of Livingstone's we may add, with reference to 
the idea some entertain that the best way of getting power over the 
natives is by jugglery or sleight-of-hand — " Goodness or tmselfishness 
ijnpresses their minds more than any kind of skill or power. . . . 
The prayer to Jesus for a new heart and right spirit at once commends 
itself as appropriate." 
* The heart and other parts were buried by a large mvula tree, on which his 
name and the date of death were cut. While at Garenganze, Mr. Arnot heard 
from a native that Chitambo was dissatisfied, because he had never received 
any reward for permitting the body to be taken away. The Royal Geographical 
Society, learning this, has sent Mr. Arnot ;^5o, with a request that he will, if 
possible, purchase and convey to Chitambo, if yet living, some suitable present. 
