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Abstract

THE report which reached England a few days ago of the death of Livingstone, and which Dr. Kirk was able to characterise as possibly unfounded, as it closely resembled a discredited one current in Zanzibar before he left, received important confirmation yesterday morning. We are enabled, however, to state that a letter seems to have come from Lieut. Cameron at Unyanyembe, reporting that a man named Chumas, who was with Livingstone, had arrived there with a circumstantial story of his death, which Lieut. Cameron, with his slight knowledge Suabili, had to turn into English. It now depends upon the veracity of Chunias, of which at present there is no means of judging. The circumstantiality is nothing, for the tale of the lying Johanna man was quite as detailed. There is, however, we are bound to confess, much reason to fear that we have lost one of the most unselfish, noble, and devoted investigators the century has produced.