Scotland/Scots > Last years of Livingstone

PREFACE.
~|~N the pages that follow, we have endeavoured to pre¬
sent to the public in a consecutive narrative, a full
account of the last journey of Dr. Livingstone, the full
particulars of his premature death, and the last honours
paid to him by the Queen and people of Great Britain.
We have had some difficulty in presenting the facts in
a connected form, owing mainly to the miscellaneous and
often contradicting sources of information from which
they are drawn. Without flattering ourselves that our
little work is entirely free from error, we believe it will
be found as accurate as circumstances will permit.
The repetition of much of the correspondence has been
inevitable; and the variations in the spelling of African
proper names, whose autography is necessarily unsettled
and arbitrary, have also been unavoidable.
Our aim has been to give to our readers all the infor¬
mation we could gather regarding the wonderful man
whose death has been deplored, we may almost venture
to say, by the entire race of man.