Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-04-17
DR.. LIVINGSTONE.

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The remains of DIR. Livingstone, the
great explorer of Africa, are daily ex-
pected in England, and when received
will be laid in Westminster Abbey, be-
side Englands great dead, with suitable
ceremonies. He was hero of no COM
mon order, as well as a martyr to science
and the cause of civilization. DE was
born about the year 1914, in Scotland,
and died on the 4th of May, 1873, in the
interior of Africa, aged about fifty
nine, though his age has been usually
set down in the papers as several
wears greater. The immense difficult
ties he overcome, and his complete
isolation from the outer world may be
realized with the fact that his attendants
travelled with his remains toward the
coast six months before the news of his
decease was transmitted 10 any civilized
people. The distance travelled was per-
hans less than fifteen hundred miles, but
the road lay through hostile tribes,
trackless deserts, dense forests, across
treaeherous rivers, and ever or around
iuuunerable lagoons and lakes, beset
by wild beasts azi reptiles, and
insects not more ferocious than
the human beings who inhabit the coun-
try. The dangers and incredible hard
ships of such journey we're wildly de-
serlbed in the letters of Mr.. Henry NJ.
Stanley, the intrepid correspondent OF
the New York Herald, who, after trav-
cling over q thousand miles through the
country, discovered DR.. Livingston at a
Mace known as Ujiji, in November,
1871; but Stanley was hardy if not a
reckless adventurer, young, elastic and
buoyant. with an Unsuitable thirst for
danger and repown. He had nearly one
hundred men in his command, and was
supplied with the best appliances that
money could buy or modern ingenuity
invent. Stsnleys unparalleled feat is
veil known to the world, and that alone
will hand his name down to posterity
With Grant, Spoke, Baker, Mungo Park,
Livingstone and other famous African
explorers. A few facts from the career
of DIR. Livingstone will be invested with
more than ordinary interest at this time.
In 1910 be went out to the Cape Of Good
Hope. and thence for the interior
of Africa, under the auspices Of
the London Missionary Society. He
spent the following sixteen years Of
his life to 1856 in geographical explora-
lions and in medical and missionary la
bors among the natives Of the Beshuana
country. In that time he explored
more than two.thirds Of that part Of
Africa below the equinoctial line, dis
covering lakes, rivers and people never
heard Of before by the civilized world.
The numerous expeditions he made, the
cities and towns he visited, and his va
'rious discoveries, would not be Of inter
est except TO the careful student Of
African geography and its great prob
lens, which have puzzled the learned
men Of the world from the days OF
Herodotus down to the present time. 1t
was to a solution Of these that he hnally
devoted the labors and energies OF his
life, with a success that even now is
questionable. His work will have to be
completed doubtless by Stanley, or
some one else who can profit by his ex'
perience and take up the broken
thread of bis unfinished explora'
tons. He originally took out his
family to Cape Town, but sent them
home in 1852, promising TO follow IN two
wears; but it was FIVE years before he
made good his promise He returned
10 England on the 18th Of December
1856. and the results Of his various dis.
coveries and observations were given to
4be public, and he was received with
every mark Of distinction. After rest
ing two years he returned in 1858 to his
old field Of labor, having been appointed
British Consul at Quilimane. He pro
cseded vigorously with his explora
4iops. and found various large lake,