The remains of Dr. Livingstone have arrived, and are to
be interred in Westminster Abbey. Before burial it was necessary that the body should be identified, a work of much difficulty, as the features were indistinguishable, the limbs shrunken from the method of embalming employed, and the cranium of the ordinary kind. The traveller, however, had had his arm cru nched by a lion, the bones had never been united, and a false joint had been made. Sir W. Fergusson, who made the autopsy, and who had seen the limb in health, found the ununited fracture and the false joint, neither of which could by possibility have been prepared recently or for a special purpose. The proof of identity may therefore be considered as complete as proof ever can be,—much more complete, for example, than if the face, and the face only, had been recognisable. Every man has his double, but no double would have had either the fracture or the artificial joint.
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