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In the midst of the universal sorrow caused by the intelligence that Dr. Livingstone had lost his life at the farthest point to which he had penetrated in his search for the true sources of the Nile, a faint hope was indulged that some of his journals might survive the disaster: this hope, I rejoice to say, has been realized beyond the most sanguine expectations. It is due, in the first place, to ... More

In the midst of the universal sorrow caused by the intelligence that Dr. Livingstone had lost his life at the farthest point to which he had penetrated in his search for the true sources of the Nile, a faint hope was indulged that some of his journals might survive the disaster: this hope, I rejoice to say, has been realized beyond the most sanguine expectations. It is due, in the first place, to his native attendants, whose faithfulness has placed his last writings at our disposal, and also to the reader, before he launches forth upon a series of travels and scientific geographical records of the most extraordinary character, to say that in the following narrative of seven years continuous work and new discovery no ireak whatever occurs. We have not to deplore the loss, by accident or carelessness, of a single entry, from the time of Livingstone sdeparture from Zanzibar, in the beginning of 1866, to the day when his note-book dropped from his hand, in the village of I lala, at the end of A pril, 1873. I trust it will not be uninteresting if I preface the history with a few words on the nature of these journals and writings as they have come to hand from Central A frica. It will be remembered that when Mr. Stanley returned to England in 1872, Dr. Livingstone intrusted to his care a very large Letts sdiaiy, sealed up and consigned to the safe-keeping of his daughter, Miss Agnes Livingstone. Upon the confirmation of the worst news, this book was examined and found to contain a considerable portion of the notes which her father made during his travels previous to the time of Mr. Stanley smeeting him. The doctors custom was always to have metallic note-books in use, in which the days jottings were recorded. When time and opportunity served, the larger volume was posted up with scrupulous care. It seems, however, that in the last three or four years of his life t
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