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There they signaled a passing ship and asked that his body be taken to England. In England he was buried in Westminster Abbey, where the famous and great men of the World are buried.
Livingstone was so beloved by the black men that anything he told them to do they would do. His was a magic name. He made black people Christians.
There was an Arab chief with the funny name Tippoo Tib who used to catch black men as if they were wild animals, chain them, and ship them to other countries to be made slaves. Livingstone with his black men fought Tippoo Tib year after year, until at last he put an end to Tippoo Tib’s slave business. This is one of the big things Livingstone did.
Another thing Livingstone did was to make maps of the parts of Africa that no one knew about. He found the greatest waterfall in the World. These falls are twice as high and twice as broad as our Niagara Falls. The falls can be heard twenty miles away. He heard them sounding and resounding long before he reached them and asked the natives what the sound was. They said they are the falls of “sounding mist.” He named them Victoria after the Queen of England, who was then living. The Victoria Falls are in the River Zambezi. Far north of Victoria Falls is a lake which is also called Victoria. Victoria Lake is where the Nile begins. The Egyptians had known the Nile River, of course, some three or four thousand years before Christ, but none knew where the Nile began. It might have started in Heaven for all they knew.

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在海边，他们向一艘过往的船发出信号，请求将利文斯通的尸体带回英国。回到英国，他被安葬在威斯敏斯特大教堂，世界上一些名人和伟人都葬在这里。
利文斯通深受当地黑人的爱戴，凡是他吩咐的，他们都会去做。连他的名字都具有魔力。他教诲黑人信仰基督教。
曾有一个阿拉伯首领，他的名字，引人发笑，叫蒂普 ·蒂布。他常常抓黑人，好像他们是野生动物一样，用链子拴住他们，把他们运到其他国家，然后卖给别人当奴隶。利文斯通与黑人一起同蒂普 ·蒂布斗争了一年又一年，最后，利文斯通终于让蒂普 ·蒂布终止了他的奴隶买卖。这是利文斯通所作的重大贡献之一。
利文斯通所做的另一贡献是绘制了非洲一些地区的地图，这些地区当时还无人知晓。他发现了世界上最大的瀑布。这个瀑布的高度和宽度是尼亚加拉大瀑布的两倍。在20英里之外就可以听到瀑布声。他在离这个瀑布很远的地方，就听到水的轰鸣声，就问当地人这声音是什么。他们说这是瀑布，“它有会发声的雾”。他以当时英国女王的名字将瀑布命名为“维多利亚”。维多利亚瀑布位于赞比西河。在维多利亚瀑布以北很远的地方，有一个湖泊也叫“维多利亚”。维多利亚湖泊是尼罗河的源头。当然，大约在耶稣诞生三四千年前，埃及人就知道尼罗河了，但是，没有人知道尼罗河发源于哪里，说不定他们认为尼罗河发源于天堂呢。