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DUST TO DUST. 
The coffin was laid on a trestle covered with velvet 
trappings, and wreaths of immortelles were placed over it 
by the donors or their friends ; in a short time afterwards it 
was borne towards the grave, during which a soft voluntary 
was played on the organ. The oaken coffin was then un- 
covered and revealed, with the inscription on a brazen 
plate : 
DAVID LIVINGSTONE, 
BORN AT BLANTYRE, LANARKSHIRE, SCOTLAND, 
19th march, 1813, 
DIED AT ILALA, CENTRAL AFRICA, 
4tii MAY, 1873. 
Dean Stanley then read the Burial Service, after the 
coffin was lowered, and the awful words, “ Dust to dust, 
ashes to ashes,” announced to all within the Abbey that 
David Livingstone was at last laid in the grave ! 
CHAPTER XLIII. 
THE LAST LETTERS OF THE GREAT EXPLORER. 
The following letters from Livingstone, to his brother, 
Mr. John Livingstone, of Listowal, Ont., Canada, are the 
last which were ever received from him. 
“Manyuema, or Cannibal Country, say 150 miles north- 
west of TJjiji, April, 1870. — My Dear Brother: I have not 
the faintest prospect of being able to send this to the coast 
for many months to come, but I write to have something 
in readiness when an opportunity of making up a packet 
arrives. As soon as I was able to inarch I went up Tan- 
ganyika about fifty or sixty miles, and from south up the 
Islet Kasange, struck away first northwest, then I passed 
the beginning of the lake formed by the Lualaba and 
found myself in the great bend which that lake river 
makes after, as I saw it coming out of Lake Moreo. I 
