David Livingstone : his labours and his legacy . en years of Livingstones life was lost, and it isentirely owing to Susi and Chuma and their faithfulcompanions that this is so. Our debt to these finefellows no reward could wipe out. It is an enduringobligation. On the 15th of April, 1874, the body, accompaniedby Susi and Chuma, arrived in England. It was takento the rooms of the Geographical Society, and thereidentified—partly by the false joint in the upper arm,which had developed when the lion mangled him longyears before at Mabotsa. Three days later, among those who had worked withhim and f
David Livingstone : his labours and his legacy . en years of Livingstones life was lost, and it isentirely owing to Susi and Chuma and their faithfulcompanions that this is so. Our debt to these finefellows no reward could wipe out. It is an enduringobligation. On the 15th of April, 1874, the body, accompaniedby Susi and Chuma, arrived in England. It was takento the rooms of the Geographical Society, and thereidentified—partly by the false joint in the upper arm,which had developed when the lion mangled him longyears before at Mabotsa. Three days later, among those who had worked withhim and for him, in the presence of the mighty deadas well as the mighty living, he was laid to rest inWestminster Abbey. Moffat and Oswell, Steele andWebb, Waller and Kirk, Young and Stanley, were thereto pay a last tribute of affection to their old comrade ;and all who were present were closely drawn to himthrough ties of admiration for his character andsympathy for his cause. In former years, when hereturned from Africa, he had received the ringing. LIVINGSTONES FOLLOWEKS BRINGING HIS BODY TO THE COAST, 140 DAVID LIVINGSTONE. welcome of a nation. Upon that day when he cameagain for the last time, as he was laid to rest inthe Abbey, that nation, stricken with grief thoughhardly yet aware of all his greatness, bade him amute farewell.
Size: 1355px × 1844px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1890, booksubjectlivings, bookyear1894
