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HONOR TO DEVOTED HEROISM. 
Ilala, he slept the sleep of the just. His lifeless body was 
conveyed during many months of a toilsome and danger- 
ous journey a distance of more than a thousand miles to 
the coast, by his humble body-guard, one and all liberated 
slaves — a grander and more touching memento of the 
great missionary explorer than any tomb which can be 
raised in his honor in Westminster Abbey. The devoted 
heroism of his followers was worthy of the chief they 
served. 
The time seems to be near at hand when the vast con- 
tinent of Africa will have yielded up all her secrets, when 
the traffic in flesh and blood which- has depopulated the 
negro race will be as much a tradition on the east coast as 
on the west, and when the highway will be open by which 
the missionary and trader may obtain access to its fertile 
plains and highlands to carry the blessings of Christianity, 
civilization, and commerce into the remotest districts of 
the continent. With this grand achievement the name 
Livingstone will be ever associated. Though he has had 
worthy coadjutors in Grant, Speke, Baker, and other ex- 
plorers, the work of opening Africa is mainly the outcome 
of his faith, his sagacity, his perseverance, his hardships, 
and his sufferings. He has, moreover, bequeathed to his 
countrymen — to the whole world — the legacy of an entire 
life of self-devotion, single in its aim, perfect in its com- 
pleteness, and sublime in its grandeur, which will incite to 
self-sacrifice and enthusiasm as long as the record of his 
character and labors survives. 
