The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-02-12
DIR. LIVINGSTONE DEAD.
A Record OF Travel In Regions hitherto
Unknown by Civilized Man.

A Record Of Travel In Regions hitherto
Unknown by Civilized Man.
Intelligence has been received of the
death of DR.. 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.
DR.. David Livingstone was born at
Blantyre Works, near Glasgow, Scot
land, in 1915. The poverty of his pa
rents prevented them from giving him
such educational advantages rs the boy
cravcd, 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 even
ing school in Glasgow, and here, in addi-
tion to the rudimeIts of his own Ian
guage, he acquired very respectable
knowledge of Latin and Greek, and of
various branches of science, including
botany and geology. At the age of 10,
after he had been promoted from the
position of piecer to that OF spinner,
he conceived the idea of going to China
as a medical missionary; and with this
object in view attended lectures 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 surgeons, he prepared
to sail for China under the auspices Of
the London missionary society. The
war between Great Britain and China
broke out at this time, however, and
his long cherished plan WIS abandoned.
The young enthusiast next turned his
attention to Southern Africa, whcro the
Rev. Robert Mctl'tt had been laboring
among the natives with signal success.
In 1910, after a voyage of three months,
he landed at Cape Town, and for sixteen
years applied himselfto the sclf-imposed
work of christiaui2ing the Africans. His
first exploring expedition was made in
lSl9. 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 tho great
Xambe2i river.
Shortly after his arrival at Cape Town
he married daughter of DR.. Moil'at,
the missionary. In 1892 she took her
children to England, but rcioined her
husband subsequently and died on the
banks of the Nambezi. just before he
started on what proved to be his most
important northern expedition cruel
attack was made by four hundred
Dutch Beers upon the kolobeng set
Element. Sixty of the inoileusiyc ma
tivcs were killed, several hundred wO-
men and children were carried into hon
dage, and Lvlngstonc's nrop"rty 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
Loauda. He next went on foot to
QuiIimanc 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. Al
Quilimanc he took passage in Brit
ish gun brig which conveyed him to
Mauritius, whence he returned to Eng
land By 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