The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1874-04-08
David LIvinEstone.

Advices from Zanzibar, which appear
to be properly authenticated, bring the
sorrowful intelligence of the death of DIR.
David Livingstone, the famous explorer.
By his death the cause of science has been
deprived of valuable and conscientious
representative and great and good man
has been lost to society.
DR.. Livingstone was born at Bantyre,
near Glasgow, Scotland, about the year
1917. His parents were in humble cir
cumstances though descended from re-
spectacle line of Highland ancestors. His
father died in 1856 having lived to wit
ness the fruits of the love of honest in
dustry, benevolence and enterprise which
he had instilled into his child. David, at
an early age was sent to earn his living
in the cotton mills of Bantyre. Possess
ing genuine and unconGuerable thirst
for information, he appropriated the earn
ings of his hard labor to the development
of his intellectual faculties. He pursued
his studies at Glasgow during the winter
months, resuming his occupation at the
mills during the summer vacation of the
classes. BY close application he was en-
abled to obtain a fair knowledge of the
classics and at the age of seventeen could
repeat portions of Horace and Virgil.
Through his early training his mind be-
came imbued with taste for religion and
as he grew to manhood he resolved to de-
vote himself to missionary life with the
hope that Africa or China would be the
scene of his labors In 1888, after having
studied medicine and been admitted
licentiate to the Faculty of Physicians
and Surgeons, he offered himself to the
London Missionary Society for missionary
work in Africa and his offer was accepted.
He left England for Port Natal in 1910.
At the latter place he became acquainted
with Rev. Robert Mofatt, an African mis-
sionary, whose daughter he subsequently
married. Mrs. Livingstone accompanied
her husband in his expeditions until her
premature death in 1862. DIR. Living.
stone for sixteen years labored as mis-
sionary in the wilds of Africa, during
which time he made several important ex-
petitions into the interior. He became
acquainted with the language, customs
and religious observances of many savage
tribes during his sojourn and twice cross
ed the entire Continent a little south of
the Tropic of Capricorn, from the shores
of the Indian Ocean to those of the At
lantic. He returned to England in the
fall of 1857, having made during his alb
sence the most important geographical
discoveries. In March 1858 he returned
to Africa accompanied by small band
of assistants sent out by the British Gov
eminent He entered Lake Nyanza in
September 1861 and made further explora-
tions. In 1864 DR.. Livingstone returned
to London, and having perfected arrange
ments for an extended survey of the in
terror of Africa again quilted England in
April 1865. In March 1867 it was report
ed that DR.. Livingstone had been killed
by the natives near Lake Nyanza, but in
1869 this was emphatically contradicted |
by letters received from him by friends in |
England. In those letters he gave parti-
culars of several important discoveries
among which the source of the Nile was
definitely located. For several years
afterwards nothing was heard of his move
nents beyond groundless rumors and in
1871 the world had given him up as dead
The enterprise of the New York Herald
1t this juncture in despatching the STAN
ey expedition was the means of discover
ng the great explorer.
Since Stanley's return, Livingstone's
until now, have been shroud-
d in mystery.