The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-02-12
DR.. Livingstone Dead.
A Record of Travel In Regions Hitherto
Unknown by Civilized Man.

n RECORD OF 1revei In Regions Hitherto
Unknown by Civilized Man.
Intelligence has been received of the
death of DIR. Livingstone in the interior
of Africa. He died of dysentery while
travelling from Lake Bembe to Unyan-
yembe. His body has been embalmed
and is to be taken to England. 1t will
come by the way of Zanzibar,
DIR. David Livingstone was born at
Blantyre Works, near Glasgow, Scot
land, in 1916. The poverty of his
parents prevented them from giving
him such educational advantages as the
boy craved, but he managed while at
work in the cotton mills to store his
mind with much valuable information,
to be turned to account in later years.
He enjoyed an occasional month in an
evening school in Glasgow, and here, in
addition to the rudiments of his own
language, he acquired very respecta-
BILE knowledge of Latin and Greek, and
of various branches of science, includ-
ing botany and geology. At the age of
10, after he had been promoted from
the position of piecer to that of spin
ner, he conceived the idea of going to
China as a medical missionary; and
with this object in view attended lec-
lures on medicine and divinity in the
University of Glasgow in the winter
time, always resuming his place in the
factory when the summer vacation
began. In 1888, having been licensed
by the Faculty of Physicians and Sur
geons, he prepared to sail for China
under the auspices of the London Mis-
iatr
Great Britain and China broke out at
this time, however, and his long-cher-
ished plan was abandoned. The young
enthusiast next turned his attention to
Southern Africa, where the Rev. Robert
Moffat had been laboring among the ma
tives with signal success. In 1910, after
a voyage of three months, he landed at
Cape Town, and for sixteen years ap-
piled himself to the self-imposed work
of Christianizing the Africans. His
first exploring expedition was made in
1o49, when he reached Lake Ngami, he
and his companions, Oswell and Muir
ray, being the first white men to visit
it. In 1851 he discovered the great
Zambezi river.
Shortly after his arrival at Cape Town
he married daughter of DIR. Moffat,
the missionary. In 1862 she took her
children to England, but rejoined her
husband subsequently and died on the
banks of the Zambezi. Just before he
started on what proved to be his most
northern expedition a cruel
attack was made by four hundred
Dutch Beers upon the Kolobeng set
tlement. Sixty of the inoffensive ma
tives were killed, several hundred wo-
men and children were carried into
bondage, and Livingstone's property
was destroyed.
In May, 1858, he reached the capital
of the Makololo tribe, and was pleasant
ly received and Hospitality entertained
by King Sekeletu. Crossing to Angola
he became the honored guest of the
Portuguese authorities stationed at
He next went on foot to
Quilimane on the Indian Ocean, reach
ing that point just four years from the
time of his departure from Cape Town.
having traversed the continent from
ocean to ocean, and travelled altogether
more than 5000 miles through coun-
Try unknown to civilized man. At
Quilimane he took passage in British
gun brig which conveyed him to Maui
ritius, whence he returned to England
oy the Red Sea and the overland route.
In 1857 he published his first book of
travels, Missionary Travels and Re-
searches in South Africa" He had no
sooner seen the volume fairly launched
from the press than he returned to
Quilimane, having been appointed
Consul to that place with sort of row.
ing commission. He subsequently
penetrated to Lake Nyassa in steam
boat with party of scientific men. In
1864 he paid his last visit to England,
md in 1865 returned to the scene of his
labors in Africa, after which time he
was rarely seen by white men.
DIR. Livingstone leaves one son who
ives in Scotland. His only brother,
DR.. John Livingstone, is in business in
Canada. At the time of his death the
explorer was in all probability con-
return to England to give
20 the world connected account of his
travels and discoveries.
A London dispatch says the death of
DR.. Livingstone took place in June last.
ae had been travelling over a partially
submerged country, and after wading
our days through water was seized by
he illness of which he died.