Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1916-08-24
WSHsSACREDSPOT
DAUGHTER OF LIVINGSTONE
SEES PLACE WHERE HE DIED.
Brick Memorial Has Been Erected In
Enclosure Where the Heart Of the
Great Explorer and Mission
ary Was Buried.

Mrs. Livingstone Wilson. only surViV-
ing child Of DIR. David Livingstone the
explorer, recently made a journey to
Old Chitambo, where her fathers heart
was buried. Old ChitambO Is north
east Of RhOdesia, cleared space In
the heart Of the bush, and 1t took over
q month to reach 1t from Capetown.
At New Chitambo, which Is % miles
farther on, Mrs. Wilson was going to
stay with her son, who Is a medical
missionary, and her daughter, who Is
. 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, native teacher act
ing as 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 ma
tive women, and when they let 1t down
to show them the women ran shrieking
away, fearing 1t was snakes growing
on their heads. At another native vii
lase the chief brought all the sick ma
tives that Doctor Wilson might pre-,
scribe for them. but he made some diff
6culties 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 hamm0cks across the riv.
ers made the journey adventurous.
At Old Chitambo an old chief called
Chitend, from another village, claimed
that 1t 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 q 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 great tree,
at the other side Of which old Chitam-
DO, the chief of the village, who had
had u great respect for the explorer,
was afterward buried. The explorers
body, as Is we'll known, was borne
thousand miles through the forest to
be sent to England by his faithful ma.
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 it.
Here was placed book on which big
game hunters and explorers who pene-
trated thus far might note their names.