The Sun.
London, England, 1867-07-01 00:00:00

The Death of Dr. Livione,

TO TILE EDITOR OF THE s.

SlR,—The hopes you have raisectbe safety of
Dr. Livingstone by the extract you, reproduced
to-day from the Times of India w.,
unhappily,
but short lived.

The same journal of a subsequflte, May 17
a copy of which I enclose), givtails of the
savage conflict which resulted in tAth of him
whom every civilised nation mom.' am, sir,
your obedient servant, 1. MuLL.
36, Gordon-square, W.C., June

" The hopes raised by the news '1 we pub-
lished on she 15th of May of the bred safety
of Dr. Livingstone have speedily dispelled,
and there can no longer be aroubt that
he was killed by a savage of the Micribe. The
narrative of the Sepoy belonging he Marine
Battalion (21st Native Infantry) whined one of
the doctor's escort, and who arrived.), Zanzibar
in the Gazelle on the 14th of May, t out to be
altogether inaccurate; and, substatir, the tale
told by Moosa is proved correct.
" The Nadir Shah, a vessel of waonging to
the Sultan of Zanzibar, at present use a trader,
reached Bombay on the 15th of May trge and
from information we obtained on boae are en-
abled to give a more detailed account fe circum-
stances in connection with the melany
story of
the doctor's fate than has yet been puled. The
Nadir Shah left Zanzibar on the fort
of the
28th of March, so that the news s)rings is
nearly a month later than that br(t by the
Gazelle, and three days later than the
despatch
received from Zanzibar by the Bom
Govern-
ment.

"Dr. Livingstone took his departur)m Zan.
zibar in March, 1866, and was convl in her
Majesty's ship Penguin to Pinganeh, at; mouth
of the Rovuma river. The expedition .sisted of
Dr. Livingstone and 35 men, 10 ofnn were
natives of Johanna, one of the Comoronds, 13
Africans, and 12 scpoys of the Bommarine
Battalion. It was thought by Dr. Livi,ne that
these Africans would be of service tol on his
journey into the interior. The Afrs were
formerly slaves, who had been liberated edu-
cated in the Bombay Presidency. Thcwas no
other European in the party except the C,r him-
self. The beasts taken were—six Qs,
four
buffaloes, from Bombay, five asses, I two
mules, and among the baggage there wforage,
gunpowder, &c. The Penguin started Zan-
zibar on the 19th of March, 1866, - and Inca in
the doctor's train and the beasts were to from
Zanzibar in a large dhow, which was to` by the
Penguin. In three days the Penguin ved off
the Rovuma river, but, owing to the strokurrent
the dhow could not be got into the mk of the
stream. The expedition then made for Mindany
Bay, about 30 miles northward- of Cap)elgoa,
where Dr. Livingstone and his party wekccess-
fully landed on the 28th of March.
" The Johanna mei,, who had been ened for
the doctor's service by Mr. Sundley, thugli sh
Consul at Johanna, were considered prefide for
the service to Zanzibar men. On the rah into
the interior the Sepoys seem to have suffertnuch,
and Dr. Livingstone thought it necessar3 leave
them on the route to enable them to return to 'Azibar.
In returning they had but little to eat, and,great
risk of starving. One by one, all the SErs fell
ill, and the sickness that attacked the havir was
fatal, as he died of dysentery. None the 12
Sepoys who started with the doctor reaq Ny-
assa, and those who survived returned to „zibar
in August or September. In October t the
Johanna men made their appearance in
and presented themselves before Dr. Sews, the
British Consul, when for the first time theta.
gence was received of the disaster which I be-
fallen Dr. Livingstone. From the acccts of
these Johanna men it would seem that , ex-
pedition reached Lake Nyassa in safe and
crossed the lake. They pushed on wcvard,
and in the course of some time reacheGeo-
many, a fishing village on a river. This woul6pear
to have been on the second or third week inigust
last. The people of Goomany warned Dr. iing-
stone that the Mafites, a wandering predatorxibe,
were out on a plundering expedition, and at it
would not be safe to continue the journey. .t the
dangers thus presented to view were not steient
to deter a man who had braved so many hef or and,
treating the warnings as but of slight momt,
he
crossed the river in canoes the next mornin with
his baggage and train of followers, in safety Pre-
viously to this time the whole of the baggage heals
had perished on the journey from the want °later ;
and on reaching the further side of tl river
the baggage had to be carried by the doctor men.
Being a fast walker, Dr. Livingstone kept see dis-
tance in advance of the baggage-encumberemen ;
and Moosa only, or Moosa and a few other,f the
party, kept up with him. The march had utinued
some distance when Dr. Livingstone saw thilarmed
men ahead, and thereupon he called out tcloosa,
" The Mafites are out, after all," or some smwords
as those ; and these seem to have been ti
_aiast be
uttered. The three Mafites were armed W 1 bows
and arrows and other weapons, and the; mme-
diately commenced hostilities. Evidently te men
must have closed on the doctor, whenliuding
matters desperate, he drew his revar and
shot two of his assailants, but while thushspos-
ing of the two the third managed to gebechind
Dr. Livingstone, and with one blow f,ra an
axe clove in his head. The wound was mow, but
the assassin quickly met his own doom, for bullet
from Moosa's musket passed through his bcy, and
the murderer fell dead beside his victim. moosa
states that the doctor died instantly, and tkt find-
ing the Mafites were out he ran back to the aggage
party and told them that their master hd- been
killed. The baggage was hastily abandor,d, and
the Johanna men, Moosa, and the rest of t 6 party
sought safety by a hasty flight, which, abording
to Moosa's story, they continued until auntt, when
they reached a secure hiding-place in thi jungle.
They held a consultation, and it is allied that
Moosa prevailed on them to go back tnd look
after the body of their late master, anc that on
regaining the place where the murder bad leen per-
petrated they found Dr. Livingtone's bqy lying
there. The doctor's watch had been car4d away,
together with his clothes, the only article that re-
mained on the body being the trousers. --Kosa and
the men who had accompanied him scratched, a
hole in the ground just deep enough to fury the
body in, and there left in a far ren3oteand un-
known spot the remains of the self-denting and
noble man who, all too soon for his country and for
the cause of civilisation, but not too soon for him
to have earned an enduring fame, found his end
at the hand of an ignoble savage. The, corpses
of the three Mafites were lying on the spot where
they had fallen ; but no attention was paid to them
by Moosa, who ou searching could find no tnemento
of his late master to bring with him tozanzibar.
In making their way to the coast great hardships
were experienced by
Moosa and the other survivors
b
of the party, who were in such a
starvingerres
they condition
that they had to live upon the could
gather by the way until they fell in with an Arab
caravan, which entertained them,. kindly. They
were thus enabled to reach la_eelwah, in the
territory of the Sultan of Zanzibar. They were
here provided with clothes and necessaries an('
sent on to Zanzibar at which place they reported
all the circumstance;to Dr. svyard, by whom they
were closely examined. pr. Kirk, of Zanzibar, an
old associate of Livingstone, alsoquestioned them
carefully, and founi thatr their statement of the
country through which they alleged they had passed
correctly answered to the leading features of the
wilds through which 1)r. Livingstone had intended
to track his way.
"The Johanna men were taken to Johanna, and
carefully interrogated by the Sultan or Myth,. as
well as by Mr. Sundley, and there answers tallied
with Moosa's narrative. The Johanna men
asked
Mr. Sundley to pay them the nine months, wages
due to them for their services with the expedition,
aud, as they were entitled to what they demanded,
the money was paid to then). Some of the men
who went away with the exvoilitton, and who were
not accounted for as having died, were still missing.
" 011 the 26th of December Dr. Seward left
Zanzibar in her Majesty's ship Wasp, and proceeded
to Keelwah, but he was unable to obtain any fresh
information or to gather additional details.''

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Totals

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EXCi6C
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Post-Office
Crown Lands
311 s e I,neoas

Total

69,752,1.29

676; 63