Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-02-05
DIR. LIVINGSTONE DEAD.
A Record of Travel in Regions
Hitherto Unknown by Civ
ilized Man.

LONDON, Jan 26.-Intelllgence ha.
just been received here Of the death O
DR.. Liyingt0ne in the interior of Afri.
ca. He died of dysentery while trav
cling from Lake Bembe TO Unyan.
yembe. His body has been elnbalmed
and is TO be taken to England, 1t will
come by the way of Zanzibar.
DE-. David Livingstone was born dt
Blantyre Works, near Glasgow, Scot
land, in 1915. The poverty of his par
ents prevented them from giving him
such educational advantages as the boy
craved, but he managed while at work
in the cotton mills to store his mind
with much valuable information, TO be
turnel to account in later years. He
enjoyed an occasional month in an
evening school in Glasgow, and here in
addition to the rudiments of his own
language be acquired very respecta-
bic knowledge of Latin and Greek, and
OF various branches ofscience, including
botany aad geology. At the age of 19,
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 Univer-
sity of Glasgow in the winter time,
always resuming his place in the fac
tory 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 So
ciety. The war between Great Britain
and China broke out at this time, how
ever, and his lOng-cherished plan was
abandoned. The young enthusiast next
turned his attention to Southern Africa,
where the Rev. Robert Moffat had
been labOring among the natives with
signal success. IL 1910, after voyage
of three months. he landed at Cape
Town, and for sixteen years applied
himself to the self-imposed work of
Outstanding the Africans. His first
exploring expedition was made in 1919,
when he reached Lake Ngami, he and
his panions, Oswell and Murray,
being the first white men to visit it.
In 1851 he discovered the great Zim-
bezi river.
Shortly after his arrival at Cape
Town he married daughter of DR..
Moffat, the missionary. In 1852 she
took her children to England, but re-
Joined her husband subsequently and
died on the banks of the Zambezi.
Just before he started on what proved
to be his most important nOrther expe-
dition cruel attack was made by four
hundred Dutch Beers upon the KOlO-
beng settlement. Sixty of the inof-
fensive natives were killed, several
hundred women and children were
carried into bondage, and LivingstOne's
property was destroyed.
In May, 1858, he reached the capital
of the Makelolo tribe, and was pleas
antIy received and Hospitality enter
tanned by King Sekeletu. Crossing to
Angola he became the honored guest
of the Portuguese authorities stationed
at Loanda. He next went ON foot to
Quilimane on the Indian Ocean, reach
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 1900 miles through coun-
try unknown to civilized man. At
Quilimane he took passage in British
gun brig which conveyed him to Maui
ritirs, whence he returned to England
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
sooner seen the volume fairly launched
from the press than he returned to
Quilimane, having been appointed
Consul to that place with a sort of row.
ing commission. He subsequently pen
etrated to Lake Nyassa in steamboat
with party of scientific men. In
1864 he paid his last visit to England,
and in 1865 returned to the scene of his
labors in Africa, after which time he
was rarely seen by white men.
DR.. Livingstone leaves one son who