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publishers’ preface. 
who could not afford to purchase the expensive volumes in 
which the results of his explorations were originally pub- 
lished. Nothing has been omitted that would be of 
interest to the general reader. Only such records of 
scientific observations, as would be of use only to the special 
undents in their various branches of scientific research, 
are not here reproduced. The accounts, from Doctor 
Livingstone himself, of his successive voyages; the origin 
of the reports of his death ; the result of the search expe- 
dition, sent out by the New York Herald, under Mr. 
Stanley; the letters in which Doctor Livingstone narrates 
what he was doing while the world supposed him dead ; 
the results of his discoveries, and what he expects to do to 
complete his life-long devotion to African exploration, 
will be found in the pages of this volume, told with that 
charm of simplicity of style which has made his former 
narrations so interesting and popular. 
Of the style in which the volume is prepared, and for 
which the publishers are responsible, they feel it unneces- 
sary to say more than that no care or pains have been 
spared upon it. The book will speak for itself ; and they 
feel assured that their efforts to please will be duly appre- 
ciated by the public. 
