Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1874-04-03
DR. LIVINGSTONE.

The authorized and detailed state
mcnts of the telegraph leave III doubt
of the truth Of the oft credited, OFT dis
puted report Of the death Of the great
explorer and rhiianthrFist whose
name heads this article. He died in
the interior of Airica, in the prosecu-
ton of his great work, near the long
,ought-for sources of the Nile. sur
rounded and beloved by a people
whom he first had made acquainted
with ::the blessings OF Christianity ana
tl,e benefits of civilization. David
Livingstone was born in Scotland. In
ISIS, and was about iifty-eight years OF
age at the date of his death, i'll May.
1873. His father vas a tenan farmer,
of narrow means: and at the early age
of ten years young David was thrown
upon his own resources. But his am
bition was great, and his energy in
domitable. During the intervals OF
iabor, and wen when engaged at the
spinning-ienny, he devoted himself To
study, and his mind. naturally COM
~r-ehensive, rapidly expanded with his
growing years. He studied medicine
and divinity. and III 1910. under the
auspices of the London Missionary
Society, he took passage for the British
settlement, in South Africa. as a
Medical Missionary. From the date
OF his landing AT Cape Town 10 the day
OF his death he devoted himself to his
calling with untiring assiduitv. He
had formed great purposes i'll life. and
he lived to see them nearly fulfilled.
He had resolved to open up the vast
unknown interior of Africa TO COM
melce and civilizations; to do away
with the barbarous system of slavery
prevailing among the savage tribes.
and 10 determine the physical geo
graphy of the great UNEMPLOYED region
extending frcul the Cape ofGood Hope
10 the equator. Those of us who re-
member our school atlas Of about 1910.
with its mountains ofthe Moon stretch
ing across the entire continent from east
to west directly under the equator, with
its unfinished Nile, and with a great
yellow blotch-marked UNEMPLOYED re-
continent, and Will compare it with the
Africa OF to-dav, will realize some OF
the results which have been accom-
plished since that time; and for those
results science IS mainly indebted to
DR.. Livingstone. For thirty years,
undeterred by dread of the fierce ma
tives, Drawing all the dangers and
horrors OF the inho~pitable wilderness.
he has prosecuted his work: and his
work, as it deserved to be, has been
crowned with success. He solved tie
great problem of the African water
sheds; he levcled the mvthic noun
tains of the Moon; he first discovered
the true source of the mighty Nile: he
opened up great and fertile regions
to trade; he carried the light of Christi
anity TO millions OF b~enishted heathens;
he struck the letters from the limbs OF
thousands upon thousands of suffer-
ing slaves. Well might he exclaim
with kepler: Il have stolen the gold
en- secret Of the Egyptians; l will in
dulge my sarrcd fury" The grand
old man died-a> he wished TO die-in
harness, and his name will 90 down to
future ages as that of a noble man
who devoted his entire life to the inter-
ests of science and religion. The
British Government, with characteristic
and discriminating generosity, has con-
feyred a pension upon his daughters.