File:The life and labors of David Livingstone, LL. D., D.C.L., covering his entire career in Southern and Central Africa. Carefully prepared from the most authentic sources...The whole rendered clear and (14781835662).jpg

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Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Chambliss, J. E
Subjects: Livingstone, David, 1813-1873
Publisher: Philadelphia, Hubbard bros. (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
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ce more we repeat the names o. these men. Susi andJames Chuma have been sufficiently prominent throughout—hardly so perhaps hits Amoda, their comrade ever since theZambesi days of 1864: then we have Abram and Mabruki,each with service to show from the time he left the NassickCollege with the doctor in 1865. Nor must we forget Ntoaekaand Halima, the two native girls of whom we have heard sucha good character: they cast in their lot with the wanderers inManvuema. It does seem strange to hear the men sav that nosooner did they arrive at their journeys end than they were sofar frowned out of notice, that not so much as a passage to theisland was offered them when their burden was borne away.We must hope that it is not too late—even for the sake of con-sistency—to put it on record that whoever assisted Livingstone,whether white or black, has not been overlooked in England.Surely those with whom he spent his last years must not passaway into Africa again unrewarded, and lost to sight.
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VALUABLE SERVICES OF SUSI AND CHUMA. 781 A very great deal is owing to these five men, and we say itemphatically. If the world has gratified a reasonable wish inlearning all that concerns the last days on earth of a truly noblecountryman and his wonderful enterprise, the means of doingso could never have been placed at our disposal but for theready willingness which made Susi and Chuma determine, ifpossible, to render an account to some of those whom they hadknown as their masters old companions. If the geographerfinds before him new facts, new discoveries, new theories, asLivingstone alone could record them, it is right and proper thathe should feel the part these men have played in furnishinghim with such valuable matter. Nothing but such leadershipand staunchness as that which organized the march home fromIllala, and distinguished it throughout, could have broughtLivingstones bones to England, or his last notes and maps tothe outer world. They performed their service nobly. The mou

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