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DAVID LIVINGSTONE

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DAVID LIVINGSTONE

BY
C. SILVESTER HORNE, M.P.

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS

New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1916
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PREFACE

On March 19th, 1913, a hundred years will have passed since DavidLivingstone was born. It is only forty years since his body was carriedby faithful hands from the centre of Africa to the coast that he mightbe buried among his peers in Westminster Abbey. In those forty yearsgreat and astounding changes have been witnessed in the Continent whichis associated with his fame. The campaign he fought against theslave-system that desolated the vast district drained by the Zambesi hadto be renewed to free the population on the banks of the Congo. SouthernAfrica has been reconstructed and consolidated. The Upper and the LowerNile have witnessed many strange vicissitudes of history. Other nameshave become great in men’s mouths. Some have been associated with vastpolitical enterprises; while some, with a disinterestedness as noble asLivingstone’s, have been at once the pioneers and the martyrs of aChristian civilisation. But nothing that has happened since hasdiminished by a single{vi} laurel the wreath he won, and will wear forever. With every decade his fame greatens; and whatever our views onAfrican problems may be, we may all agree that her white population maywell pray for a double portion of his spirit. At first it seemedunnecessary to re-write his life. The task has been

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