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DIR. Livingstone Dead.

dysentery while travelling from LAX
Bembe To Unauyembe 10 June last, Fl
had been travelling over partially sui
merged country. and, afte- wadlng fou
days in the water, was seized with the i'll
ness with which he died. His body ha
been embalmed aud is being conveyed t
England; it will como by the way o
Zanzibar.
David Livingstone Was born at Blau,y r'
Works. near Glasgow, Scotland, ID 1915
Sc that on his Death he was still under &c
years of age. The family came from the
Hyorilcs group Of islands. AT the age
Ct 10 years, David was placed in cot
ton factory as a 'piccer," bur IN anaged
In the intervals Of his work, and even
while engaged in it, to pursue course OF
sclf.iustruction quite extended for one OF
his years. Adding an attendance upon
an evening school, he picked up knowl-
edge OF Latin and Greek, and of various
braches of natural science. He continued
to devote his means to his education after
he was promoted to be Gotten spl nncr,
ia his 10Th year. At this time, conceiv-
ing tho idea Of going to China as a medi-
cal missionary, he attended medical and
divinity lectures at the university of Glas-
gov during the winter reSuuiDg mill work
in the summer vacation. Having been ad.
mtted licenriate of the faculty of physi.
clans Of Glasgow, he as'about to sail for
China under the auspices oftheLondoa mis-.
sionary society. when the war between
Great Britain and China breaking out
frustrated his design, and he turned his at.
tention to South Africa, thea the scene of
the labors of Rev. Robert MoGat, and
after taking further theological instruction
embarked 10 1910 for Cape Town, which
he reached after three months voyage.
He proceeded into the interior, and pass
ing several years at kuruman and other
places, stud ing the language and customs
Of the natives, intending to establish him.
self among the Bakwains, a tribe of the
BE chuanas. In lS43 he removed TO Ma |
botsa, where he founded missionary
station, Iaborlng there and at Kelcbeug,
about fifty miles farther north for the
next six years.
In lS49, DR.. Livingstone began the
series Of exploring expeditions which
have since given him worldwide repu.
tation, by starting, with two English gen.
tlemcn, upon trip to Lake Ngsml over
the Bakalihari desert, by route which
had been regarded as almost insuperable
in its obstacles. They were the first Eu-
ropeans that had actually visited that
sheet of water, which till then. had on.
ly been known through native reports.
The next year, Livingstone repeated the
trip, intending TO continue his journey
still further northward but was prevented
by the prevalence Of fever and flies. In
lS4l, he aDl Mr.. Oswell one of his pre-
cious travelling companions, again started
for the north, and succeeded in reaching the
great river Zanibesi. flowing in the centre
Of southern Africa. During the next five
years he continued his explorations in va.
rious directions, travelling over 5000 miles
mostly over routes previously untrodden
BY European foot. At the close Of the
year 1859, he returned to England, where
he fame of his discoveries had preceded
him. and where he was welcomed BY all {
classes, and especially by scientific men.
% the most fatteriug manner. His long
absence from English speaking associates S
lad so affected his command of his mother
tongue that he found 1t very difficult TO {
'eply to the reception speeches which q
greeted him in so many places. In 1857 I
appeared his missionary Travels and !,
Researches in South Africa which Gu. ;
Dyed great popularity. but no sooner had /
lie seen his work through the press than C
ae sailed, in March, 1858, for Quilnane, c
If which place he had been appointed
consul.
Soon after landing in Africa, he started
m new expedition up the Zambezi river
With party of scientific men. Other ;.
rips rapidly followed, in one Of which. T
iadc in 1861, Livingstone aud his party y
'erc attacked by native tribe with pois- y
ned arrows, and he was severely wounded. y"
lis wife, who had accompanies him on Z"
lang of these dangerous enterprises, died %
n the river Shire, in Africa, in 1861 In
1854 he was again in England, but, as on ''
is former visit, stayed only long enough :.
give the world his report of discoveries, u
nd then prepared for resuming them. T.
His most important expedition was the
no which death has now terminated He :"
II Zanzibar on the 9th of March, 1866, "
r an exploration OF the river Rovuma y
ID the great lake country Of Central AT.
ca, his great object being to unite the ii
agrifcont discoveries Of late years and g,
'termine the limits and connections of of