Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-01-26
LThe Death Of DIR. Livingstone.

A cable dispatch in our Geographic columns
announces the death in the wilds of Africa, of
DR.. David Livingstone, the explorer, about
whom so much has been said and written for
several years past. DIR. Livingstone was a
native of Scotland, born at Blantyre, in Lsnark-
shire, in the year 1911. At the age of ten he be-
came u ''piecer" is a cotton factory, and for
many years was engaged IN hard work as an
operative. An evening school furnished him
with the opportunity Of acquiring some knOwl =
edge of Latin and Greek, aud finally after at
tending course of medicine at Glasgow Uni
veTslty, and the theological lectures of the late
DIR. WaTdlaw, professor of theology to the Scotch
Independents, he offered himself to the London
Missionary Society, by whom he was ordained
as a medical missionary in 1910. In the summer
of that year he landed at Port Natal, in South
Africa. Circumstances made him acquainted
with the Rev. Robert MOffat, himself a distin-
guished missionary, whose daughter he SUISSE
quently married. For 10 years he proved him
self faithful and jealous servant of the Lon
don Missionary Society, The two most lmpOr-
tsnt results achieved by him in this period were
the discovery of Lake Ngami (August |, 1Si9)
and his crossing the continent Of South Africa,
from the Zambesi (Or Leeamby) to the Congo,
and thence TO Loando, the capital of Angola.
which took him about Is months from Janu-
airy, 1858, to June, 1851 In September of the
same year he LETT LOando, on his return across
the continent, reached Linzanti, lin lat. lS9 Il
s. and long. % so E.) the capital of the great
MakololO tribe, and from thence proceeded
along the banks of the Lecambye to Quill
name, on the Indian Ocean, which he resche d
d,
where he arrived December 18th of the same
year. The reception accorded him by his
cOuntrymen was most Enthusiastic. Probably
no traveller was ever more afectonately
honored. This was owing not merely to the i'm
p0rtaDce of his dlscOveries-though II would be
difficult to over estimate such-but to the
thoroughly frank, ingenious simple, and MAJ My
character of the traveller. In 1857 he published
his Missionary Travels and Researches in South
Africa, workof great interest and value. "In
all his various journeys" said Sir Roderick
Murchson, at meeting of the Royal GeOgraphi-
cal Society, held shortly after Livingstone's re-
turn, she had travelled over no less than II 900
miles of African Territory. By his astronomical
observations, he had determined the sites OF
numerous places, hills, rivers and lakes, nearly
all OF which had been hitherto unknown,
while he had seized upon every opportunity
of describing the physical features, china
tology, and geological structure OF the
countries which he had explored, and
had pointed out many new sources of commerce
of the British merchant" In 1853 the British
government appointed him consul at Quill
name, whittier he returned in the course of the
year. portable steamboat had been CON
structed for his use in this country, and LIVING
stone, with several scientific associates and
crew o: natives, started a few years ago up the
Lambesi with the view of making discoveries
in the unexplored territory south Of the equator.
Accounts of his progress were received tor some
time, but finally, he being the only white man
LETT OF his party, all tdings ceased. The anxiety
which prevailed to hear from him, the success
full expedition of Stanley, the New Nork Hsrdl,i
correspondent, to discover him, the Circum-
stances under which he found him, and the
starting of another expedition from Great
ton of which is so fresh in the public mind that
IL is unnecessary to recapitulate them here