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The late Dr. Livingstone, 1874. 'We all feel a sincere regret for the loss of this brave and benevolent lonely adventurer in the noble enterprise of finding a way for Christian civilisation and European science through the unknown wilderness of Central Africa. The mournful news of his death reached London on Monday, by a message from the agent of the Eastern Telegraph Company at Aden: "Livingstone died of dysentery, while travelling from Lake Bembe to Unyanyembe. Body embalmed and preserved in salt by his Nassick boys, who are conveying it to Zanzibar, en route for England...He had attempted to cross the lake from the north, and, failing in this, had doubled back and rounded the lake, crossing the Chambeze and the other rivers flowing from it; had then crossed the Luapula, and died in Lobisa, after having crossed a marshy country, with the water for three hours at a time above the waist. Ten of his men had died, and the remainder, consisting of seventy-nine men, were marching to Unyanyembe. They had disembowelled the body and had filled it with salt, and had put brandy into the mouth to preserve it".' From "Illustrated London News", 1874.