19 MAY 1967, Page 4

A hundred years ago

From the 'Spectator,' 18 May I867—Sir Roderick Murchison' has shown very satisfactorily that the Johanna man on whose authority we have hitherto believed Dr. Livingstone's murder, has given to two different people two quite different and incon- sistent accounts of the transaction, and there seems every reason now to hope that the whole story is a forgery of the Johanna men, to account for their desertion of Livingstone. An expedition is to leave England on the 10th June, to follow his track to Lake Nyassa.