it drains into the Nile; but if the levels which you give are correct, this is impossible.  At any rate, the opinion of the identity of the Congo and Lualaba is now becoming so universal that Mr. Young has come forward with a donation of L2000 to enable us to send another Expedition to your assistance up that river, and Lieutenant Grandy, with a crew of twenty Kroomen, will accordingly be pulling up the Congo before many months are over.  Whether he will really be able to penetrate to your unvisited lake, or beyond it to Lake Lincoln, is, of course, a matter of great doubt; but it will at any rate be gratifying to you to know that support is approaching you both from the west and east.  We all highly admire and appreciate your indomitable energy and perseverance, and the Geographical Society will do everything in its power to support you, so as to compensate in some measure for the loss you have sustained in the death of your old friend Sir Roderick Murchison.  My own tenure of office expires in May, and it is not yet decided who is to succeed me, but whoever may be our President, our interest in your proceedings will not slacken.  Mr. Waller will, I daresay, have told you that we have just sent a memorial to Mr. Gladstone, praying that a pension may be at once conferred upon your daughters, and I have every hope that our prayer may be successful.  You will see by the papers, now sent to you, that there has been much acrimonious discussion of late on African affairs.  I have tried myself in every possible way to throw oil on the troubled waters, and begin to hope now for something like peace.  I shall be very glad to hear from you if you can spare time to send me a line, and will always keep a watchful eye over your interests.—­I remain, yours very truly, “H.C.  RAWLINSON.”

The remains were brought to Aden on board the “Calcutta,” and thereafter transferred to the P. and O. steamer “Malwa,” which arrived at Southampton on the 15th of April.  Mr. Thomas Livingstone, eldest surviving son of the Doctor, being then in Egypt on account of his health[78], had gone on board at Alexandria.  The body was conveyed to London by special train and deposited in the rooms of the Geographical Society in Saville Row.

[Footnote 78:  Thomas never regained robust health.  He died at Alexandria, 15th March, 1876.]

In the course of the evening the remains were examined by Sir William Fergusson and several other medical gentleman, including Dr. Loudon, of Hamilton, whose professional skill and great kindness to his family had gained for him a high place in the esteem and love of Livingstone.  To many persons it had appeared so incredible that the remains should have been brought from the heart of Africa to London, that some conclusive identification of the body seemed to be necessary to set all doubt at rest.  The state of the arm, the one that had been broken by the lion, supplied the crucial evidence.  “Exactly in the region of the attachment of the deltoid to the humerus”