THE HEART OF LIVINGSTONE

Te Aroha News, Volume XII, Issue 1767, 4 September 1895, Page 2

THE HEART OF LIVINGSTONE

It is now twenty, years since the greatest of missionary explorers, Dr Livingstone, died, and still in the hearts of .Englishmen is cherished the memory of his noble,.unselfish life and pathetic circumstances of :,>;his ifimely death* Renewed ' interest in the latter sad event has been created by the news that an American . traveller has discovered the place r wheto Livingstone’s heart: was buried-. In tho rough pre~y cess of explorer’s body adopted by his devoted native followerS the heart was taken out and' '" buried beneath a tree. On this tree -:, the Nassick boy, Jaeob Wainwright, i cut the words; Dr May 4th, 1873, ‘ Yazuza, Uniasere, Ychopere” • means of preserving the body ai these natives could gpve it had been employed, they enclosed it in canvas, lashed-it to; a-pole and carried it to the coast; ; There it was shipped tp Zanzibar,, and thence taken to England, : where -it received the last great honour England pays to her heroes, burial in Westminister Abbey. The free, whereon the in-: > ? scription was cut, has been, mistaken several times, and once at a tablet was . erected by the "great explorer’s daughter eight miles from the .proper place. In the who was exploiing near Lake Nyassa to see what could be done for the extermination of the slave trade,.- pehetrated as far as the south-west of Lakh Bangweolo. Near the site of the deserted village of Chitamho, on the south shore of the Lake, he found the tree with the inScriptibn*' bis* : photographs of the spot Were reproduced in a recent number of the Century Magazine. , The lettering is apparently as clear as .bn the day it was cut. It is to be hoped that something may now be done to mark more distinctly and permanently a spot which has an interest not for England alone, but for the whole civfi*sed ' world. . . ; .