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LIVINGSTONE’S LAST JOURNEY. 
laba near its entry into the lake on the west, thus supplementing 
their master’s work, and, turning eastward beyond the great river 
which had so long been the goal of his efforts, they made for the 
route he had followed on his trip to the south in 1868. A short 
halt at Casembe’s was succeeded by an uneventful trip eastwards 
to Lake Tanganyika, rounding the southern extremity of which the 
funeral procession rapidly made its way in a north-easterly direction 
to Unyanyembe, where it arrived in the middle of October, 1873. 
Here Lieutenant Cameron, the leader, and Dr. Dillon and 
Lieutenant Murphy, members of a new Livingstone Relief Expe¬ 
dition sent out by the Royal Geographical Society, were resting 
before starting westwards. After the sad news of the doctor’s death 
had been communicated to them and confirmed by indisputable evi¬ 
dence, Cameron did all in his power to help and relieve the brave 
fellows who had brought the hero’s dead body and all belonging to 
him thus far in safety. 
A MOURNFUL PROCESSION TO THE COAST. 
Then, finding them unwilling to surrender their charge before 
reaching the coast, although he himself thought that Livingstone 
might have wished to be buried in the same land as his wife, he 
allowed them to proceed. Dr. Dillon and Lieutenant Murphy accom¬ 
panying them. 
Soon after the march to the coast began. Dr. Dillon, rendered 
delirious by his sufferings from fever and dysentery, shot himself 
in his tent, but Susi, Chumah, and their comrades arrived safely at 
Bagamoyo in February, 1874, where they delivered up their beloved 
master’s remains to the Acting English Consul, Captain Prideaux, 
under whose care they were conveyed to Zanzibar in one of Her 
Majesty’s cruisers, thence to be sent to England on board the 
Malwa, for interment in Westminster Abbey. 
To describe the stately funeral which was accorded to the 
simple-hearted hero in old Westminster Abbey would be beyond our 
province, but none who read the glowing newspaper accounts of the 
long procession, the crowds of mourners, and the orations in honor 
of the deceased, can fail to have been touched by the contrast they 
