For thirty years his life was spent in an unwearied effort to evangelise the native races, to explore the undiscovered secrets, And abolish the desolating slave-trade of Central Africa, where, with his last words, he wrote: “All I can say in my solitude is, may Heaven’s rich blessing come down on every one--American, English, Turk--who will help to heal the open sore of the world.” Along the right border of the stone the happily-chosen words:-- Tantus amor veri, nihil est quod noscere malim Quam fluvii causas, per saecula tanta latentes. And along the left border, “Other sheep I have which are not of this fold, them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice.” CHAPTER XI CHARACTERISTICS The life of Livingstone has been indifferently told if the personality of the man has not appeared in these pages. But the reader will welcome a few personal details that could not well find a place in previous chapters. The portrait of Livingstone is well known. It is a strong, rugged face, rather heavy and severe in its general effect, with a thick dark moustache, a broad mouth and full chin--the whole lightened, however, by the honest kindly eyes and the suggestion of humour about the lips. When he was a young man it would appear that his hair was almost black, but it became lighter in colour later, and the lock of it in possession of one of his relatives is distinctly brown. He is himself our authority for saying that his beard was reddish in colour; and it must be remembered that in this respect all our pictures are at fault. Not one of them shows us a bearded African traveller; yet, except on his visits to England, he always wore a beard. Stanley’s first impression was of the grey-bearded man whom he found at Ujiji. Later on he noted that his hair had still a “brownish colour,” but that his beard and moustache were “very grey.” Stanley also paid a tribute to the brightness of his eyes, which he says were hazel. They appear to have been grey with a bluish tinge. Livingstone himself comments on the astonishment of the natives at his red beard and blue eyes. From that reference one might imagine that he had the appearance of a Viking or Scandinavian; but the fact is that his eyes were really more grey than blue, and that his hair was a very dark brown, while his beard was more distinctively Scotch and “sandy.”