LIVINGSTONE'S TREE
INTERESTING CASKET REMARKABLE HISTORY All visitors to Titania's Palace, which is being exhibited by Sir Nevile Wilkinson in the building of Ball and Welch, Limited, in. Flinders Street, Melbourne, in aid of crippled children, are interested in the tiny Gothic casket on the left of Titania's chapel. Its remarkable history has been related by Sir Nevilo Wilkinson.
Jn 1873 the great explorer David Livingstone ended his labours at Chitambo, in Central Africa. He was aged only 60 years, but his splendid physique had been worn out by fever and hardship suffered for the sake of the slaves for whom he worked so nobly. His body was taken to England, and it lies in Westminster Abbey, but his heart was buried beneath a nipundu tree near the village in which he died. The casket in Titania's Palace was made from a fragment of this tree, which was cut away to make room for the memorial cross which was erected.
The casket was designed by Sir Nevile Wilkinson, and was executed by Mr. Horace Uphill. The beads of crystal, cornelian, lapis lazuli, and pearl, which decorate the casket, came from a necklace which was excavated at Ur of the Chaldees. It is 4000 years old.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22027, 6 February 1935, Page 14
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205LIVINGSTONE'S TREE New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22027, 6 February 1935, Page 14
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