The Monticellonian., 1916-08-10
VISITSSACREDSP0T
DAUGHTER OF LIVINGSTONE SEES PLACE WHERE HE DIED.
Brick Memorial Has Been Erected in Inclosure Where the Heart of the Great Explorer and Mission
 ary Was Buried.

Mrs. Livingstone Wilson, only surviy- ing child of Dr. David Livingstone, the explorer, recently made journey to Old Chitambo, where her fathers heart was buried. Old Chitambo Is north east of Rhodesia, q cleared space in the heart of the bush, and 1t took over n month to reach it from Capetown. At New Chitambo, which Is 55 miles farther on, Mrs. Wilson was going to stay with her son, who is a medical missionary, and her daughter, who is a nurse.
 At the Victoria falls, discovered by her father, she secured a photograph showing the point from which he caught the first glimpse of this great rush of water. At Broken Hill she was met by her daughter and later by her son, and they trekked to Chitambo with 60 carriers. Il native teacher act ing IS interpreter.
 In the native villages as they passed through they excited much interest. says the London Times. In one their hair aroused the curiosity of the na- tive women, and when they let it down 10 show them the women ran shrieking away, fearing 1t was snakes growing on their heads. At another native vil- lage the chief brought all the sick na- tives that Doctor Wilson might pre- scribe for them. but he made some diff ficulties by insisting on taking dose of every medicine which was ordered for his people. The narrow canoes. the unsafe native bridges of stocks, the thwarts of which had been eaten by white ants. and the fear of mudholes and crocodiles when the travellers were carried in hammocks across the riv- CTS made the journey adventurous.
 At Old Chitambo an old chief called Chitend. from another village. claimed that it was in his mothers hut that Doctor Livingstone died, and four other old men, who refused to believe that Mrs. Wilson was Doctor Living stones daughter-"He had no child with him; he always came alone" they said-remembered him and told of him through the interpreter. The discrep= ancies between their version and that of the biographers were, Mrs. Wilson said, of great interest. The old chiefs claim that Doctor Livingstone died In his mothers hut arose from the fact that. while his followers had gone ahead to build him grass hut, he be- came so i'll that he had to rest under the caves of a native hut, dying after ward in the grass one that had been built for him.
 The old men declared that they re- membered his followers building stockade around the hut while they embalmed the body in salt and brandy, burying the heart under a great tree, at the other side of which old Chitam- bo the chief of the village. who had had great respect for the explorer. was afterward buried. The explorers body. as is well known, was borne a thousand miles through the forest to be sent to England by his faithful na- tive followers. Jacob Wainwright, the best-known of these, had asked the old chief to keep the grass always burned close around the tree at Chitambo, so that 1t might escape the dangers of for est fires.
 Afterward the tree was struck by lightning, and the present memorial. in sloping brick, with cross at the summit-the slope being made to pre- vent elephants brushing their trunks against twas erected in the bush with an avenue cleared in front of 1t. Here was placed book on which big game hunters and explorers who pene- trated thus far might note their names.