The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1867-07-19
DR.. Livingst0ne's Fate.

Though an expedition has been ct
ted out in England to go in quest OF
DR.. Livingstone, later intelligence APP
/ pears to remove all doubts of his death.
DIR. Mellor, formerly member of the
Livingstone expedition, has arrived at
Cape Town, and pronounces the state
ment of his death authentic The
Times of India, Of May 23, says hopes
raised of his safety have been dis
PEELED, and there can no longer be
any doubt that he was killed by saw
age of the Matte tribe" 1t then gives
the following additional particulars of
/ bis death.
The Johanna men, who had been
engaged for the doctors service by
Mr. Sundley, the English Consul at
johanna, were considered preferable
for the service to Zanzibar men. On
the march into the Interior the sepoys
seem to have suffered much, and DR..
Livingstone thought it necessary to
leave them on the route to enable
them to return to Zanzibar On re-
turning they had but little to eat, and
ran great risk of starving. One by
one all Of the sepoys fell i'll and the
sickness that attacked the hayildar
was fatal as he died of dysentery.-
! One OF the twelve sepoys who started
with the doctor reached Nyassa, and
those who survived returned to Zanzi-
bar in August or September,
In October last the Johanna men
made their appearance in Zanzibar
and presented themselves before DIR,
Seward, the British Consul, when for
the first time the intelligence was re-
ceiyed of the disaster which had befal-
len DIR. Livingstone From the ac-
counts of these Johanna men, it would
seem that the expedition reached Lake
Nyassa in safety, and crossed the lake
They pushed on westward, and in the
course of some time reached Goomany,
n fishing village on river. This
would appear to have been in the sec.
ond or third week of August last.
The people of Goomany warned DR..
Livingstone that the Matites-a wan
dering, predatory tribe-were out on
a plunderng expedition, and that it
would not be safe to continue the
journey; but the dangers thus present
ed to view were not sufficient to deter
the man who had braved 50 many
dangers before, and, treating the warn
ings as OF slight moment, he crossed
the river IN canoes the next morning
with his baggage and train of follow.
ers III safety. Previously to this time
the whole OF the baggage animals had
persisted ON the journey from want of
water; and on reaching the further
side of the river the baggage had to
be carried by the doctors men. Be-
ing fast walker, DR.. Livingstone kept
some distance i'll advance of the bag
gage-encumbered men, and Moosa on
ly, or Aloosa and few others of the
party, kept up with him.
The march had continued some dis
lance when Dr. Livingstone saw three
armed men ahead and thcreupon he
called out to AIoosa, The Mahtes are
out, after all, or some such words as
these, and these seem to have been
the last he uttered. The three Mahtes
We're armed with bows and arrows,
and other weapons, and they immedi
ately commenced hostilities. Evident
ly the men must have closed on the
doctor, when finding matters desper-
ate, he drew his revolver and shot two
of his assailants. But while thus dis
posing of the two, the third managed
to get behind DIR. Livingstone, and,
with one blow from an axe, Glove in
his head. The wound was mortal, but
the assassin quickly met his own doom,
for bullet from Moosas musket
passed through his body, and the muir
derer fell dead beside his victim.
Moosa states that the doctor died
instantly, and that, finding the Maites
were ont. he ran back to the baggage
party and told them that their master
had been killed. The baggage was
hastily abandoned, and the Johanna
men, Moosa, and the rest of the party,
sought safety by q hasty fight, which
according to Moosa's story, they con-
tinued until sunset, when they reached
a secure hiding place in the jungle.
They held consultation, and it is al
legged that Moosa prevailed on them
TO go back TO look after the body of
their late master, and that on regain
ing the place where the murder had
been perpetrated, they found DIR. Liv
ingstone's body lying there.
The doctors watch had been carried
away, together with his clothes-t the
only article that remained on the body
being the trousers. Moosa and the
men who had accompanied h N
scratched hole i'll the ground just
deep enough to bury the body, and
there left, in a far remote and un-
known spot, the remains of the self
denying and noble man, who, all too
soon for his country and for the cause
of civilization, but not too soon for him
to have earned an enduring fame,
found his end at the hand of an igno-
bic savage
WASHING SHEEP.-S. L. Boardman,
of Illinois, says the best way TO wash
sheen is to let them do IL themselves