The Express.
London, England, 1862-08-12 00:00:00

[Stamped, Id. Additional.]

DB. LlF7soaroNrs =:PEDII7OIr.

The following letter has been received by the
Bev. William Meek, of Oisnbridge, from Dr. Livingstone :

" Her Majesty's Ship Pioneer, River Shire, Jan. 2.
" My dear Mr. Monk,-1 have very Pale bacilli:Moe to
enter into details concerning the ommenostneet of the
Oxford and Cambridge Mission, because I am sure that
iccounte have bees furnished by abler hands, and I am sot
very partied to works of superiroptim. I may say, how-
ever, that I ass thenktel in having contributed in some de-
gree to precautions against a fate sander to that at Linyanti;
and I think it the missionaries follow the dictates of common
semis, they are likely to enjoy good hemitti while pursuing
their edge enterprise..
"It was very annoying to find that the people of Tette
had some sleet the path followed by Dr. Kirk along the
Shire to that village, and set up an extended system of
slave hunting in the very country to which the mission had
come. A tribe called Ajawa had been employed to attack
chi
ran villeins, kill die men, mid sell the women and
children to the Portsgness for amen trifle in calico. Four
parties, with about 140 captives, fell into our hands, and
were handed over to the bishop as • beginning to hi Gook.
Tbsy wore thistly women and children ; many will probably
leave and settle ur the country adjacent, but the remainder,
entirely fres from parental control, may be trained mord-
tag to the will of the 11011.02111,101. In aspect to theme treed
empties', the minion is more highly favoured than any
seeders one, mewl, perhaps, that of the Lolependeets
Mmemem Leg Radom presented a number of youths
ftasstdeteWa,qat more for hie own political ends than
them ireepsee to Christianity. In that blend, however, the
heal bine been mutheeksably good, for the converts have
srEfestof crud trenermiettom after all the missimarim
=ter. ..rs
.:I;ly..b.7„„daaJtoratt.thajw‘hglare effort
to am common faith. The good Lord bl:gsm:he work
of kale.
"Yea cense* well conceive the sate al disunion among
the flagpole On mercy call them Meganja, sot me we
sometimes hear it Mmogypenja) ; the deetraction of Allege
atter willies produced no effort at union spiral the common
fee. A msimge only was sent dorm to Chibbis, se Its le
believed*, poems! siedicine
of
al ensuring
The parmemat chalk asked of this subjects, kindly
helps- d sieve hunters acmes thew. WW. found that
Ma Whole maim were Geeing, and hopes( to slop tinted
thi dais of blood, went to hold aparley with gill Aims.
Unfortmetely, we came to them when in the act of burning
three Ahem. The bishop then offered up • terventproyer,
mid with the aoceeta of that prayer we could distinctly hear
the wail for the died, and the shrill scream for victory. As
we deemed to their villages our assurances that we came
were nullified by some Maapoje followers Ml-
oat • or Chibaa bag coon ;" sod very nefortmately,
though I beard it distinctly, it did sot strike the mind till
of terwaeds, that we were thmeby deprived of the protection
of our English name. They attsgthed an en ell sides with
poisoned arrows od four molten, sod I feel very sure that
the latter were handled by Portuguese slaves. They esr.
hadjthe dress common among slaves at Tette, and
wee a amme home, such as slaves efts beild neer
the Alma villages. We retired slowly from the village, bet
this only marls them bolder ; they came within fifty yards
=aid it was only by recourse to our firearms that we
ailbeeemiog food for the vultures. lam sorry that
It wee wesusry. for it was the first hostile encounter I have
had in Afisto. Had I anticipated an attack I should lam
used Lair words and penman lint. We are, however, in the
slave nuke*. We were twins robbed in the sphere of an
Arab dhow's slaving operations, about half way up lake
Nysesa—the first lose by robbers I have sustained in the
conticient Ellaviug is the parent al every other vice. Lite
is of no value in the trader's eye. A short time before we
caught the first slave-hunting party, they shot two women
on protean, that they were trying to loose the thaw with
which they were bound; and I suspect the Ajawa, seeing
us a very small body, and elated with continual swam,
thought it would be • clever thing to make an example of
us. We had 'amusing= with us barely sufficient to drive
them off, their attack was so unexpected.
" Liming the miasionaries at a spot which to the eye
looks as if 15 miles south of Mount Zomba, and which will
serve till a better locality is selected, we returned to the
ship, and in the beginning of August carried • boat pest
Mu/chaos% Cataracts. 'When we Lambed her on the
upper Shire we were virtually on the lake, though still GO
mules distant, because the river is all smooth and deep and
has • gentle current. On the 2nd of September we salgts4
into that island sea. It is surrounded with mountains, and
frontthem rush down f urious Mopeds with great Brightman".
Tremendous swells get up is fit teen or twenty minutes, and
had yore ever massed the bar at Quillimaue you would know
what I mean when I my that terrific rollers come across the
like with wall-like sides and hairy heads, beating in from
semi to fourteen fathoms. We were ones caught a mile
from the shore, and could neither advance nor mode far
114 "OW hours. The men all dreadfully semi& did not
etre bow soon they went down, as they 'Fns died
already.' The rollers broke either before they reached or
after they had pared our anchorage. The boat behaved
admirably, mounting up the steep billows like • sea-bird,
bat one roller breaking on her would have ended our ex-
ploration. After this we were lees venturesome, and lis-
tened to the utterances of our seaman, Jobs Neil, as if he
had been an oracle. We sailed along the western soon
and found that side to be a succession of bays. Thr south-
ern sod is shaped somewhat like Italy on the map. The
ankle of the boot a the narrowest part, 18 or 20 miles wide.
It expands towards the north to 35, then to 50 or 80 miles.
The length is over 200 miles, probably 225. The depth is
erypeat. A fishing line found bottom in a bay at 100
ffaattiiaaooss or 600 feet - bat • rade outside none was felt at
116 fathoms, or 096 feet. There are emend small rounded
rocky islands in this lake which are covered with forma,
uninhabited, and used only as fishing stations. Detached
rocks jut out adjaceet to theme islands, and to all the rooky
headlands, wlech will lie dangerous to navigators. With
our present knowledge, • ship could find anchorage only
neer the shore. Fish abound, end a ,prodigious popula-
tion inhabits the shores, and they catch fah by large net%
seals, hooks, torches, or poisou. Alliptam, very well fed
on fish, seldom or never molest man, so we could bathe is
the delicious cool waters whenever we chose—s great luxury
not to be enjoyed in the Shire or the Zambesi.
" The people were civil—so dues were levied or floes do.
mended ; but slaving is the only trade. Colonel Rigby,
our Consul at Zanzibar, says, in a letter to Sir George Grey,
that 19,000 slaves pen through the Custom-house there
anciall all, or nearly all, from Hyena or Shire ; and he
adds, 'lf it should seer be possible to plan a steamer on
Lake Nyasa it will cut off the chief supply of slaves to the
east east.' Without koowiog that gentleman's opinion,
we have ordered • steamer from Glasgow, in twenty-four
parte, which we hope to carry past the atareets as our
next work. We expect her soon, and I shall not pen •
syllable to you or anyone else till it le accomplished.
miry to Him in whose hand are • our bates' to permit me
to accomplish this great *orrice. Then a path to the ma by
Romnia, or some river in the dominions of the Sultan of
Ziesibar, for we moat ham an outlet to the sea uncontrolled
by the Peetaguese. Fancy the folly of our allies • the geg.
'moment builds a post at the mouth of the Shire, to be
writhed by cotton dean, while the people of Tette do all is
their power to depopulate the country from which the
cotton is to come. If we have our own outlet, the tattoo
field. sow 400 miles long, will be prolungsd far to the
earth and west, and or own English holiest poor may live
cm the islands and become bleeders to Africa, our owl
sweet home, and to themselves. These are my hopes, and
it ought to be borne in mind that my expedition should be
dated only from the possession of the Pioneer. We were
forced to return by want of food, when, as we have reason
to believe, we were in sight of the dark mountain masses is
which Lake Wyman sods.
" • tribe of Zulus enginthly from the south, had made
terrible havoc among the Lake_ people. We don't know
why, as we received anyonewided statements, and sever
form an opinion on that sort of evidence • but human their
to and putrid bodies of the slain strewed the shores—
' ma's inhumanity to man maks. mintier thousands
mourn.' I met seven of them Marge or Zulus ; they be.
bayed much as we may suppose old women of either sex
would do if they fancied they had seen • ghat. In view of
this tribe wandering up so far it strikes me that the more
work Christian people attempt the more their Master gives
them to perform.- The bishop at the Cape, with his Kaffir
College, le probably fitting missionaries to labour much
soarer the evertor than he ever 'contemplated. I always
tejseite to hear of efforts to speed our Messed religion, so
matter by whom, for I am sure that He who is bead over all
thisp to His Church, coodescoods to accept the bee,,
though often feeble, offering of His people, and will
all to a glorious consummation. This college seems an ad-
mirable institution.
" Frequent stoma rendered it iniedvisable for ne to
attempt crowing to led set all Mad the matter for our-
selves. It wee the firet time I ever was forged book with-
out amomplishing what I bed to do, but bed I dime to tell
you all you would me that farther propels might have
proved fatal to us. We returned to the yip:most oath.
met, den' our boat to a shady tree, sad walked be.,,
having a throe months travelled, is going and coming, six
hundred wiles. Anything maul' • mein, interest ia
the veinimi of the Church will be always welcome; sye-
tessatle
effort' to diffuse information ought to be roads.
Without bele( particularly prone to grumble, I
think tire is room for a growl at the mimics-