LETTER FROM DR. LIVINGSTONE.
In the uncertainty still attending the fate of Dr. Livingstone, one of the last letters of the great traveller to Sir Thomas Maelcar of Cape Town will not lie uninteresting, as it contains a striking passage in which the doctor expresses a presentiment of his death. It reads :—“ Dr Kirk, I am sorry to say, will soon leave us, and I suppose I shall die in these uplands, and somebody else will carry out the plans I have longed to put into practice. I have been thinking a great deal since the departure of my beloved one, about the region whither she has gone, and imagine from the manner the Bible describes it, W'o have got too much mockery in our ideas. There will be work there as well as here, and possibly not such a vast difference in our being as iS expected ; but a short time there will give more insight than a thousand musings. Wo shall see him by whose inexpressible love and mercy we got there, and all whom wc loved and all the loveable. I can sympathise with you more fully than I did before. I work with as much vigour as I can, and mean to do so till the change comes ; but the prospect of a home is all dispelled.”
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Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 134, 14 March 1872, Page 3
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221LETTER FROM DR. LIVINGSTONE. Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 134, 14 March 1872, Page 3
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