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slave trade had caused his government and nation to make. 
The expedition arrived at Unyanycmbe in the latter part 
of August, 1873. In October the leaders were startled at 
the appearance of Chumah in their midst, who had come 
from the south, and who informed them that Livingstone’s 
body was but twenty days behind, being brought by Living- 
stone’s followers. 
In tho beginning of November, the faithful followers of 
Livingstone, seventy -nine in number, appeared at TJnyan- 
yembe with the mournful burden they had carried over 
1000 miles. Soon after, Dr. Dillon, who was sick, and 
Lieutenant Murphy, who had resigned his share in the 
expedition, started from Unyanyembe. At Kasegera, Dr. 
Dillon, who was blind and temporarily deranged, committed 
suicide. In February, 1874, the body of Livingstone 
arrived at Zanzibar, and was shipped in care of Mr. Arthur 
Laing, as well as all his books, papers, and personal effects, 
to England, where the steamer to which all had been tran- 
shipped at Aden arrived on the 1 6th of April, 1874, eight 
years and eighteen clays since Livingstone had departed 
from England. 
After the arrival of the steamer Malwa, which contained 
the body, in the dock at Southampton, the coffin was borne 
to the lloyal Pier, and then carried through a sympathetic 
and reverent population, who had gathered en masse to pay 
a mute but impressive tribute of respect for all that Living- 
stone had done through life. Then taken to London, the 
bod}' was formally examined by Sir William Fergusson 
and the friends of Livingstone, and by the left arm-bone, 
which the lion’s jaws had splintered nearly thirty years ago, 
was recognized instantly, and all doubt of his death was 
finally and fully dissipated for ever. 
The following letter from Sir William Furgusson, to The 
London Lancet, gives an interesting account of tho way the 
body was identified. Ho says : 
“ Within the last few months many have hesitated to 
believe that Livingstone was dead. Above all it seemed 
