DAVID LIVINGSTONE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 December 1938, Page 5

DAVID LIVINGSTONE

, STATUETTE ADDED. TO LONDON GALLERY. A half life-size figure of David Livingstone has been added to the collection of statuettes of Empire builders in the galleries of the Imperial Institute, London. It has been presented by the Government of Northern Rhodesia. The missionary and explorer is shown as wearing a suit of sail cloth, hessian boots, and a cap similar to that worn by British naval officers of his day, with a handkerchief hanging from the back of it and falling ovex' his neck as protection from the heat of the sun. In his right hand he carries a staff, rough-hewn as though from a hedge or bush tree; in his left hand he holds a Bible; across his back is a haversack; and slung over his shoulder by the strap of the case is a telescope. The artist copied the feature from a portrait sketch he found in the British Museum, and the cap from a reference in a letter Livingstone wrote to his tailor in London, in which he asked for two blue caps, like those worn by British naval officers, to be sent out to him. Inset in the black pedestal on which the figure stands is the story of Livinbstone’s career from the date of,his birth in Lanarkshire in 1813 to his burial in Westminster in 1873.