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whose names remain hidden from the world; members of this heroic army? Do we indeed lack heroes?
In Canto VI. I relate the relief of Livingstone by Stanley; in Canto VII. Livingstone's death; and the wonderful transport of his remains by faithful followers, to the everlasting honour of a despised race; finally, his honoured funeral in the grand cathedral of his own land. It remains that I express my obligations to the works of great African travellers—Speke and Grant, Baker, Burton, Shhweinfurth, Du Chaillu, Winwood Reade, Moffatt, Stanley, Bowdich, Petherick—and to the correspondents of daily papers, who described the funeral.
