Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-04-01
DIR. LIVINGSTONE-HO HE DIED

10 the March number of Ocean Highways a
detailed account is given of the death ot DR..
Livirgstone derived from the m !terlaS sup
piled BY letters received from Lieut.. Cameron,
DR.. Dillon Lieut. Murphy, aud Sa lid bin Sallm,
the Arab Governor OF uyanyembe. From the
article refcrrtf 10 we extract the following par
tlcuiars:
in March, 1872, DR.. Livingstone reached
Uuyanyembe, and, after receiving supplies
from Zanzibar, set out with ninety men on his
last Journey 10 the following August. He pro-
cecded in southwesterly direction 10 the south
ern extremity Of Lake Licmta, the prolouga
tiou of Tangauyikl towards the south. Thence
he made his way to the northern shore OF Lake
Bangweolo, near the point where he was 10
July, 1865. But, being unable to cross, he
passed round the eastern eud OF the lake, lord
ing the Chambeze ard three smaller tributaries;
ard, marching along its Southern shore, he
appears to have reached the point where he
expected to 6ud the four fountains, two Of
which we're, he conjccturcd, the sources Of the
Nlie, mentioned by HerodtuS 1t is then prob
abie that he marched IN uortherly direction
and explored the region of the katanga copper
mines; for Lieutenant Cameron, who has been
indctati gable 10 collecting information, was
told by an Arab merchant that he had seen Dr.
Livingstone aud his party, all vel, ll,some mouths
previous at katanga. lu returning they had to
cross the Luapula aud work their way eastward
through an Inundated country, in which, Some
times for three hours at a time, the water stood
above the waists OF the travellers. During this
trying journey TWO of the men died and several
deserted. When marching across the swampy
tract near Mora Achnto, Dr. Livingstone was
attacked by oyscutcry, brought on by exposure
aud over fatigue. According to one account
he got as Tar as the district OF LOblsa, on his
way back, to the east OF Baugweolo, where he
ucd after ten or fifteen days illness, probably
ia May or April, 1873, if Sir Samuel Bakers
Theory proves correct, at the very source OF the
Mic, at the iouuslins Of streams h)wlug into
the south end of Lake Fauganyika, the most
dStaut reservoir ut the great river. When
Livingstone died his party numbered seventy
ulne men, among whom were few Mask boys
aud other faithful servants. Chief among them
was Chuman who had been rescued tron slav
cry on the Iambesi, and who went on ahead
to beg succor from Unyanyembe He seems
to have arrived on the 10th Of October
lie stated that the party, with DIR. Living
stones body, was from ten to twenty days
march from Uuyanyembe, and was nearly
starving; that they had also two boxes of books
with them; aud that the Doctor, before his
death, had told them to fetch another box of
papers Which he had left at Ujiji aud to take
it down to the coast. Chumau found the East
Coast Livingstone Search Expedition at Unyan-
ycmbc aud telegram, dated at Alden on Feb
ruary %, iuforms US that while Lieutenant
Murphy is bringing the body Of the iIlustrious
traveller down to Zauzibar Lieutenant Came
ron has gone onward to UjUi to recover DR..
LiviDgsone's papers