FUNEKAL ATTENDANTS. 
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The solemn occasion had gathered together from all parts 
of Great Britain the still living companions of Livingstone 
who in South and Central Africa shared his joys and pri- 
vations in the wild lands of the interior, who now acted as 
pall-bearers. Here were the lion-hunters, Sir Thomas 
Steele, W. C. Oswcll, and W. F. Webb; Kirk, the botanist 
of the Zambesi Expedition ; Waller, who had assisted him 
in his errand of philanthropy on the Upper Shire ; Young, 
the gunner of the Pioneer and commander of the first 
Search Expedition to Nyassa Lake ; Stanley, who dis- 
covered him at Ujiji; and young Jacob Wainwright, the 
representative of the faithful dusky followers who had been 
despatched to him for his last tour of exploration. 
Following the coffin as mourners, as it was carried 
reverently and slowly up the splendid aisle, were the 
children of the dead explorer, Thomas Steele, Agnes, Wil- 
liam Oswell, and Anna Mary Livingstone, the two sorrow- 
ing sisters of Livingstone, Mrs. Livingstone, the wife of 
Charles Livingstone, and the white-bearded patriarch, 
Robert Moffat, who had given him his daughter Mary in 
marriage at distant Kuruman ; and behind these came the 
Duke of Sutherland, the Lord Advocate of Scotland, Lords 
Shaftesbury and Houghton, Sir Bartlo Frcrc, Dr. Lyon 
Playfair, Sir H. Rawlinson, Lord Lawrence, Sir F. Buxton, 
the Honorable Arthur Kinnaird, and a long procession 
composed of the geographical savants of Great Britain. 
The vast assembly, the solemn strains of soft music, the 
extent of black drapery, and the dark-clothed mourners, 
made a most impressive sight, and yet with all these 
externals of sorrow, it may be doubted whether it was 
more impressive than the sad ceremony which occurred on 
the 4th of May, 1373, under the tree near the village of 
Chitimbwa, or Kitnmbo, in Central Africa, where young 
Jacob Wainwright officiated in his quality of Christian 
when the heart of* the noblo Livingstone was committed to 
the soil, for the enslaved children of which it had beaten 60 
long in sorrow over their sufferings. 
