Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1874-01-27
DIR. LIVINGSTONE.

News Of the death Of thls eminent
missionary, physician and explorer
will be sadly received by the clvilised
world. We have not space for an ex
tended obituary notice, but merely
sketch his lie aud lsbers. Al the time
OF his death Dr.. Livingstone was ffty-
nine years Of ago. He Was born near
Glasgow, Scotland, and began work
when ten years old ln a cotton factory.
He studied and read at all odd mo-
ments, attended evening schools. where
no studied Latin. Greek and several
OF tho natural ~sclenees, until At twenty
no conceived the Idea Of becoming q
medical missionary TO China. With
this object In view lie attended
medical lectures At the University Of
Glasgow. was admitted licentlate OF
the faculty and prepared to sail under
the auspices OF the London Missionary
Society. The war between England
and China preventing. he turned his
attention to Southern Africa, and after
q course OF theological Instruction In
England. embarked In lS+0 for Cape
Town. He lsbored as missionary q
abort distance In the inhcrior for eight
years. whom. In juno, lSt9, In company
with Messrs. oswsll and Murray. two
English gentlemen, he started on hi'
iirst exploring expedition. In August
OF the same year they reached Lake
Ngami, having crossed the Baksli-
hari desert. heretofore considered I'm
passible aud being the first Europeans
who bad ever seen thl, lake. They
returned to Kolobeng In October. In
1851, In company with Mr.. Oswell,o n
OF tho former party, the Doctor,
stsrted for the north and reached the
River Zsmbesi. In April, 1851, he
accompanied hls wife and children to
Cape Town and Jaw them embark for
England, aud returning to Koloeeng-
which meanwhile had been attacked
by four hundred Beers, who slsugh-
tered slxty natives, carried Of severs'
hundred women aud children ~ slaves
and p~iundsred his own dwelling-in
January. 1853, started . northern
tour. In May OF this year he resched
Linz,nti. the chief town OF tho Mako
lolo tribe. Departing thence In No
vsmber he followed the Leeambye
River to the Lecss, thence up that
stream to Lake Dilolo, thence
crossing to the Congo. which he fol-
lowed to Angels, arriving at It's capital,
Losndo, on the last day Of May, 1884:
Leaving this place In September O.
that year. ha reached Llngsrte Ia
September, 1ssS. and arrived at Quili.
name. on the Indian Ocean, In May,
1855. having in just four years ira
versed the country from ocean to
ocean. and travelled nearly ten thou'.
and miles. From Quillmane be went
to Msuriliu,. whehce he returned by
tho Red Sea and the overland route TO
England, arriving there la December,
1883. In 1857 no published his Mis-
sionary Travels and Researches In
South Africs," and sgsln In March.
1858. sailed for Quilimane. whence he
soon departed OH another expedition
up the Zambesi. Since this time he
has never visited England, and has
many times been reported dead. Two
or three years since tho New York
Herald fitted out m expedition with
Stanley As chief, which penetrated the
interior and brought the first authentic
tldings OF the Doctor which had been
received for many years. Is has been
reported for some time past that the
grea, explorer was on his way to the
cosst. His fate has been to die In the
wilds OF a'land unknown but to HIM
self and few companions. The world
will long remember Livingstone.