ALL DOUBTS SETTLED. 
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traveller’s scanty wardrobe, and in particular a large por- 
tion of the bark of a tree, which had formed the principal 
part of the package — the case thereof no doubt. The skin 
of the trunk, from the pelvis to the crown of the head, had 
been untouched. Everywhere was that shrivelling which 
might have been expected after salting, baking in the sun, 
and eleven months of time. The features of the face could 
not be recognized. The hair on the scalp was plentiful, 
and much longer than he wore it when last in England. 
A moustache could not be recognized, but whiskers were in 
abundance. The forehead was in shape such as we are 
familiar with from memory, and from the pictures and 
busts now extant. The circumference of the cranium, 
from the occiput to the brow, was 23i inches, which was 
recognized by some present to be in accordance with such 
measurements when alive. In particular the arms attracted 
attention. They lay as if placed in ordinary fashion, each 
down by the side. The skin and tissues under were on 
each side shrunk almost to skeleton bulk, and at a glance 
to practised eyes — there were five, I may say six, profes- 
sional men present — the state of the left arm was such as 
to convince every one present who had examined it during 
life that the limb was Livingstone’s. Exactly in the region 
of the attachment of the deltoid to the humerus there were 
the indications of an oblique fracture. On moving the arm 
there were the indications of the ununited fracture. A 
closer investigation and dissection displayed the false joint 
which had long ago been so well recognized by those who 
had examined the arm in former days. The Rev. Dr. 
Moffat, and in particular Dr. Kirk, late of Zanzibar, and 
Dr. Loudon, of Hamilton, in Scotland, at once recognized 
the condition. Having myself been consulted regarding 
the state of the limb when Livingstone was last in London, 
I was convinced that the remains of the great traveller lay 
before us. Thousands of heads with a like large circum- 
ference might have been under similar scrutiny j the 
skeletons of hundreds of thousands might have been so ; 
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