Livingstone was not among them.  Lieutenant Cameron, Dr. Dillon, and Lieutenant Murphy were there, and heard the tidings of the men with deep emotion.  Cameron wished them to bury the remains where they were, and not run the risk of conveying them through the Ugogo country; but the men were inflexible, determined to carry out their first intention.  This was not the only interference with these devoted and faithful men.  Considering how carefully they had gathered all Livingstone’s property, and how conscientiously, at the risk of their lives, they were carrying it to the coast, to transfer it to the British Consul there, it was not warrantable in the new-comers to take the boxes from them, examine their contents, and carry off a part of them.  Nor do we think Lieutenant Cameron was entitled to take away the instruments with which all Livingstone’s observations had been made for a series of seven years, and use them, though only temporarily, for the purpose of his Expedition, inasmuch as he thereby made it impossible so to reduce Livingstone’s observations as that correct results should be obtained from them.  Sir Henry Rawlinson seems not to have adverted to this result of Mr. Cameron’s act, in his reference to the matter from the chair of the Geographical Society.

On leaving Unyanyembe the party were joined by Lieutenant Murphy, not much to the promotion of unity of action or harmonious feeling.  At Kasekera a spirit of opposition was shown by the inhabitants, and a ruse was resorted to so as to throw them off their guard.  It was resolved to pack the remains in such form that when wrapped in calico they should appear like an ordinary bale of merchandise.  A fagot of mapira stalks, cut into lengths of about six feet, was then swathed in cloth, to imitate a dead body about to be buried.  This was sent back along the way to Unyanyembe, as if the party had changed their minds and resolved to bury the remains there.  The bearers, at nightfall, began to throw away the mapira rods, and then the wrappings, and when they had thus disposed of them they returned to their companions.  The villagers of Kasekera had now no suspicion, and allowed the party to pass unmolested.  But though one tragedy was averted, another was enacted at Kasekera—­the dreadful suicide of Dr. Dillon while suffering from dysentery and fever.

The cortege now passed on without further incident, and arrived at Bagamoio in February, 1874.  Soon after they reached Bagamoio a cruiser arrived from Zanzibar, with the acting Consul, Captain Prideaux, on board, and the remains were conveyed to that island previous to their being sent to England.

The men that for nine long months remained steadfast to their purpose to pay honor to the remains of their master, in the midst of innumerable trials and dangers and without hope of reward, have established a strong claim to the gratitude and admiration of the world.  Would that the debt were promptly repaid in efforts to free Africa from her oppressors, and send throughout all her borders the Divine proclamation, “Glory to God in the highest, on earth peace, good-will to men.”