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tions being obeyed, he took out a bottle of calomel, told Susi to put 
it, an empty cup, and one with a little water in it, within reach of 
his hand, and then added in a very low voice, ''All right; you can 
go out now.^’ 
This was the last sentence ever spoken by Livingstone in 
human hearing. At about 4 A. M. Majwara came once more to 
call Susi, saying "Come to Bwana (his name for Livingstone); I 
am afraid. I don't know if he is alive." 
Susi, noticing the boy's terror, and fearing the worst, now 
aroused five of his comrades, and with them entered the doctor’s 
hut, to find the great explorer kneeling, as if in prayer, by the side 
of his bed, "his head buried in his hands upon the pillow." 
"For a minute," says Dr. Waller, "they watched him; he did 
not stir; there was no sign of breathing; then one of them advanced 
softly to him and placed his hands to his cheeks." It was enough; 
Livingstone was dead. He had probably expired soon after Susi 
left him, dying as he had lived, in quiet unostentatious reliance upon 
his divine Father. "History," says Banning, one of the members 
of the Brussels Conference, "contains few pages more touching, 
or of a more sublime character, than the simple narrative of this 
silent and solitary death of a great man, the martyr to a great 
cause." 
A MARTYR TO A GREAT CAUSE. 
Thus ended the career of the greatest hero of modern geo¬ 
graphical discovery, and of one of the noblest-hearted philanthrop¬ 
ists of the present century. Very sadly, very tenderly, very rever¬ 
ently Livingstone’s servants laid the corpse of their beloved master 
on his bed, and retired to consult together round their watch-fire 
as to what should next be done. 
The following day it was unanimously decided that Susi and 
Chumah, who were "old men in traveling and in hardship," should 
act as captains of the caravan, the other men engaged promising 
faithfully to obey them. 
All agreed further that the body of Livingstone must be pre¬ 
served and carried back to Zanzibar. With the ready co-operation 
H. B. G.—15 
