The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-09-22
VISITSSACREDSpOT
DAUGHTER OF LIVINGSTONE
SEES PLACE WHERE HE DIED.
Brick Memorial Has Been Erected In
Inciosure Where the Heart Of the
Great Explorer and Mission
ary Was Buried.


Mrs. Livingstone Wilson, only surviv
ing child OF Dr. David Livingstone, the
explorer recently made a Journey 10
Old Ghitambo, where her fathers heart
was buried. Old Chitambo Is north
onst Of Rhodesia, cleared space In
the heart Of the bush, and 1t took over
month to reach II from Capetown
At New Chitambo, which is So 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 go carriers, a 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
tye women, and when they let 1t down
10 show them the women ran shrieking
away, fearing it was snakes growing
9n their heads At another native vii
age the chief brought all the sick ma
lives that Doctor Wilson might pre-
scribe for them, but he made some diff
1culties by insisting ON taking a 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
ars made the journey adventurous.
AT Old Chitambo an old CHIEF called
Jhitend, 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
aid--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 Ill that he had to rest under
the caves of native hut, dying after
ward In the grass one that had beer
built for him.
The old men declared that they re
membered his followers building a
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 Chltam-
bo. the chief of the village, who hae
had a great respect for the explorer
was afterward buried. The explorers
body. as Is well known, was borne
thousand miles through the forest tC
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, sc
that it might escape the dangers of for
est fires.
Afterward the tree was struck BY
lightning, and the present memorial
In sloping brick, with a cross at the
summit-the slope being made to pre-
vent elephants brushing their trunks
against it,-was erected in the bust
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