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AFRICA AND ITS EXPLORATION. 
early on the morning of May 1 the boys found “ the 
great master,” as they called him, kneeling by the side 
of his bed, dead. His faithful men preserved the body 
in the sun as well as they could, and wrapping it care¬ 
fully up, carried it and all his papers, instruments, and 
other things, across Africa to Zanzibar. It was borne 
to England with all honour, and on April 18, 1874, was 
deposited in Westminster Abbey, amid tokens of 
mourning and admiration such as England accords only 
to her greatest sons. Government bore all the funeral 
expenses. His faithfully kept journals during these 
seven years’ wanderings were published under the title of 
the ‘ Last Journals of David Livingstone in Central 
Africa,’ in 1874, edited by his old friend the Rev. Horace 
Waller. Several expeditions by the Government and 
the Geographical Society had been sent out to search for 
Livingstone, but, partly from mismanagement and partly 
from untoward circumstances, they were failures so far as 
the immediate object was concerned. 
