Show dr livingstone london march match 29 the steamer matera malera arrived off suez at 11 0 clock saturday night arthur laing and jacob wainwright inwright YVa were on board in charge of the rema iema remains ins of dr livingstone the following account is given of n gs tones fatal fatai mrle mrie and death he had been ill of chronic dysentery for several months he was well supplied with stores and medicines but he had a presentiment that the attack would prove brov fatal at first ho he was able to ride on a donkey but soon had to be carried Arrivi arriving ngat at riu Mu ilala beyond lake lahe bamboa it in the bisa bis a country he sald said build u id me a hut to die in A hut but was built by his followers on the first of may he was confined to liis his bed and afterwards sunne summered suffered ered greatly groaning night and day tile the third day he said he was very cold and requested that more grass bo be put over the laut hut Ket chief of Bisa sent flour and be beans ans and behaved well towards the party the fourth day dr livingstone Livin gatono was insensible and died about midnight a servant was present dr livingstone made his lat entry in his diary april 27 he spoke much and sadly of his home and family when he was first seized by the fatal attack he told his followers he intended to exchange everything for ivory to give them and then push to and zanzibar and try to reach england the same day on which he died his followers foll consulted what to do the boys determined to preserve the remains they were afraid to inform the chief of the death of the doctor the secretary had the body removed to another hut and built a high fence around it to insure privacy he then removed the internal organs placed them in a tin box and buried it inside the fence under a large tree jacob wainwright wal wai t cut an inscription on the tree thus doctor livingstone ing stone died may ath 1873 and it with the name of the head man susa the body was preserved in salt and dried in the sun twelve days the chief Kit on being informed of Living stones death had llad guns of respect and allowed his followers to remove the body which they placed in a coffin of bark and commenced the journey to be which consumed six month months 1 sending in advance a pa party arty amil with information of all that had occurred addres addressed sd to Living stones son the advance party were met by mr cameron who wilo sent kent back bales of cloth and powder the body borly arrived at be ten teu day aalten aalter tho par party ty and alid rested thelo thele iwo ewo wee wuk I 1 Aress rs cameron murphy and pillon also arrived together there the latter very ill his sight gone and mind affected ho he arter afterwards wards committed suicide at was buried there at Living stones remains were placed in another bark case a smaller one dono done up to represent a bale of goods so as to deceive the natives who objected to the passage of the corpse and thus carried 6 to zanzibar dr living stones clothing papers and instruments st accompanied the body when sick in bed dr livingstone prayed prayed much mu chand and sald said lam iam am going home chamah remains at zanzibar mr webb the uhe american consul at zanzibar received letters through murph murphy y from livingstone for stanley and will deliver them personally the only geographical news is as follows after stanleys Stan leys departure the doctor left leftt embe reached the south end of traveled south of lake bemba or Bangue oleo crossed it from south to north then proceeded along the east side returning north through the marshes to maille all his papers sealed and addressed to tile the secretary of state are in the charge of arthur laing la 1 n g a british merchant of zanzibar a r murphy and cameron remain behind missouri democrat |