The Sun.
London, England, 1867-03-07 00:00:00

Reported Death of Dr. Livingsto-e.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SlR,—With profound grief, which I am sure will
be shared in by the nation at large, I transmit to
you the following letter from Dr. Kirk, the former
companion of Livingstone, and now Vice-Consul at
Zanzibar, addressed to the assistant secretary of the

Royal Geographical Society.
If the detailed accounts which are on the way to
myself should arrive before Monday they will be
communicated to the society on the evening of that
day.
It appeared that my lamented friend had crossed
the Lake Nyauza to its western side, and was there
attacked by the same treacherous people, the
Mazite, a branch of the Caffre race, described 11
him in his last book of travels. It may be well t°,
state that the nine Johanna men who escaped, and
on whose evidence alone we at present have to rely'
are natives of the Comoro Islands.
If this cruel intelligence should be substantiated,
the civilised world will mourn the loss of as noble
and lion-hearted an explorer as ever lived.--1 am'
sir, your obedient servant,
RODERICK I. MußcnisoN•
Royal Geographical Society, 15, Whitehall-place'

" Zanzibar, Dec. 26, 1866.,,,
"My dear Bates,--I have written fully to P'
Roderick three weeks ago, via the Cape of '
Good,
Hope and St. Helena, again via Mauritius au
Suez, with all information we yet him got regard"

ing poor Livingstone.
" As I am going to Kilwa and Mikindany for
s
few days to see if anything is there known of the
sad story, and to seek for any letters which Inal
have been sent by Dr. Livingtone before croslog
Lake Nyassa, I write a note to you that may go by
any ship passing here while lam absent. On the
sth of December nine Johanna men of the party
which accompanied
.Dr. Livingstone Caine to ZO°l-
bar, reporting that on the west coast of NY '
some time between the end of July and September,
they were suddenly attacked by a band of gazite,
and that Dr. Livingstone, with half his party' were
murdered. Those who returned escaped, heyti
say, through being behind and unseen, and all
say,
deposed to having helped to bury the dead body
their leader the same evening. Although in the
1 details and in other things the accounts of the varioll
men differ, they all agree that they SO/ the b°1:1,1e:
and that it had one wound, that of an axe, on both
back of the neck. One man saw the fatal blow give°.
ingsto.ee
" The attack was sudden, and Dr. Liv
had time to overpower those who faced hint,
and was struggling to re-load when cut down fr°
behind. I fear the story is true, and that we
never know more of its details. Full statemeso
reach Aden by au
have gone home, but this may
my absence.
American vessel during 0
" You will see, if this arrives first, that we hal
sad news for the society on the way.—l remain,
" J. Kats."
yours, _
____--t----------------------- elia,ll.

Death of " Artemus Ward."

A few minutes past four o'clock, yesterday after-
American 13urnourist, " Artemus Ward,"
noon,. died, at Southampton, the Vfell-kOI3,
name, reserved for the affection and esteem 44
privatet intimacy,
. was Charles Brown. TO e 2.,.;
reme delicacy of his constitution was evident to it'''
his newly-formed English acquaintance, from the
first day of his arrival among them ; but latterly
the audiences who crowded to hear his quaint and
playful " lecture," at the Egyptian liall, mutt
whose real
enter'
have. felt that the peculiarly original
spite
tamer was making them laugh in
of a melancholy certainty that be would
~t
long retain the power of appearing daily on the iittlet
stage, to explain the details of the panorama that
was " rather worse than panoramas generally are'.
One Saturday morning's performa.nce, at which 3'.
extraordinary, crowd of notable personages
as though by some sad and silent deteroainatiou t:
take farewell of their favourite, proved the last,
Mr. Brown quitted London that same daY, hoping
to return, but hoping against hope. He W°;-,, ,
have liked, he said, to get back again to .Alnerv3e
just to tell the folks there how kind " all Pti livtari.
been. to me," meaning the many hundreds a - a
ushers" who saw in him a pleasant, graceful tYliti,
gatherea!
of American fun, as free from 'a speck- °f Ire,
garity as it was from a shadow of ill-eatu io
Some of Mr. Brown's best productions as a C(3llief
essayist have been penned during that
visit
and closing passage of his life, the 1100
to the " old country." The series of pal) to
he wrote for Punch gave a fresh stat 4 „j,
his fame, showing as they did a keen, thoug,b rood,
humoured power of observation, able to deal 1 rattle
themes better than with old. His last C0_11.,10
bution to literature was a clever and timely. lt:130
article, about " Converting the Nigger," 1/3„
New Year's volume of " Savage Club l'aPert,e' oft
Those who had the fortune to meet, Air.
.1-7r(9sciii
very soon knew him ; and those who knew bill itz
mourn the loss of a gentle-nerrted companit° i'li,
whose shrewd, sensible sayings, gravity abla Pf `tile
fulness were most charmingly blended It's °
_jot,
man, not of the jester on platform and ib P: isio
that we are all thinkiug, now that the news 011;60
death has come by no means unexpectedly' ; b,L,c_
natural and spontaneous was his assuniptiou tri_l. 'cs
itious character, that there seems no hick
fita.
in that form of mortuary language in which or 7.
gretfully chronicled the death of "itemus 18 ar