Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1867-03-29
DE- Livingstone.


A cable telegram announces the
murder by Cafre savages in South
America Of DR.. David Livingstone, one
of the most famous of African explor-
ers.
DR.. Livingstone was a native of the
| little village of BlantyFe, in Scotland,
i where he was born 10 1915 and IN ear
j ly life was employed in a cotton mill
/ as a pieeer-boy. But in the midst of
| his daily labor he was smitten with q
4 desire to learn from books; and earn
/ ing money as a spinner in the summer
/ months, he went TO Glasgow to school
| In the winter, and there laid the f0un-
dation for those studies that have had
such splendid fruits in his matured
! life. He was engaged, however, in
! the spinning business up to the year
/ 1910, when at the age of twenty-five
with a mind improved by education
/ and heart filed with q burning desire
to be useful to his felloW-men in dark
parts of the earth, he entered into the
London Missionary Society. His stud
les had been medical as we'll as reli-
gious, and, like Parker in China,
House in Siam. and Grant In Persia,
he aimed at doing good to- the bodies
as well as the souls of his fellOw-meR.
The Society sent him out to Africa,
aud he stopped at the Cape of Good
Hope, where he was at first employed
IN astronomical pursuits. This was
not the objeOt by any means of his
mission. for he Was7 expected TO, push
on iutothe interior to take barge Of
the KuFuman mission station In
June, 1S49, he set out on his first ex-
pl0ring expedition, sRd the4sengUiBgI
August reached Lake Ngami, Asg M
known then as &c has since been made
familiar. In 1851, after several mere
expeditions Of less Importance. he
mhde one in which he reached. the
Eambesi. In 1852 be had q casual
glimpse of civilization. again for the
first time in twelve years, on a trip to
Of sending his wife to England. Mrs.
African missionary MOffab; her hus-
band had met and married her in At
rica, and it was there that she met her
death some two years since, after q
participation II nearly all the hard
ships of his life. In January, 1858. he
left Capetown, on the journey out of
which he made his first book" Mis-
sionaTy Travels and Researches in
South Africa, published in 1857 by
Harper d Brothers. In this Journey
he went through with very notable
pluck as many difficulties and diseom-
forts as would have suficed to discour-
age a dozen ordinary men, and he end
ed il IN May, 1856. four years after he
started at Quilimane, on the Indian !
Ocean, having traversed the continent
from ocean 70 ocean, for a distance. of
very near nine thousand miles, with
land withOut) all conceivable kinds Of
conveyance. He found a British gun
boat az Ouilimane, and made the pas
sage in her to the Mauritius and SO
home By tho overland route. He ar
rived home ia. England in December; |
1855 aud was Of course made a lion Of /
Numerous public meetings we're held |
in his honor, at which he found that
his long absence aud his disuse Of his |
mother tongue had made him so un- !
skillful in it that he was unable to ex- |
press himselfto the satisfaction of him /
self or his audiences. His book came |
out in 1867, carrying his popularity |
throughout Great Britain and Ameri- |
ca.
But he turned his back on his sue
eesses, and sailed for the second time |
In March, 1857. The Government had |
given him the consulate at Quilimane,
and he made this place the point dap /
put for his next important expedition, ]
in which he was accompanied by par
ty of sGUans. The course taken was up |
the River Zambezi, and the results of !
his voyage are recorded in his second |
boOk-'Narrative Of an Expedition to
the Zambezi aud It's Tributaries, " pub /
lished BY Harper & Brothers in 1866, /
aud which is in every body'8 library
Last year he returned The third time
to Africa, aud we have since heard Of
him only Ia a vague way aud at long
Intervals, until the announcements Of
his death reached us.--Harpeps WeeR.
Ig.