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LIVINGSTONE’S LAST JOURNEY 
Three days later, among those who had worked with him and 
for him, in the presence of the mighty dead as well as the mighty living, 
he was laid to rest in Westminster Abbey. Moffat and Os well, Steele 
and Webb, Waller and Kirk, Young and Stanley, were there to pay 
a last tribute of affection to their old comrade; and all who were 
present were closely drawn to him through ties of admiration for his 
character and sympathy for his cause. In former years, when he 
returned from Africa, he had received the ringing welcome of a nation. 
Upon that day when he came again for the last time, as he was laid to 
rest in the Abbey, that nation, stricken with grief though hardly yet 
aware of all his greatness, bade him a mute farewell. 
