The Express.
London, England, 1867-11-26 00:00:00

THB PATH OP DR. LIVINGSTOIrit

THE WEST INDIAN DISASTERS.

LETTER FROM THE QUEER. I At a crowded meeting of the Royal Geographi.
Yesterday afternoon a large and very influential cal society, last evening, Sir RoDunk Mutt=lWO, the
meeting was held in the Guildhall, Southampton, for the president, read the following letter repeating the fate of
purpose of taking measures for the relief of the large num- Dr. Livingstone :
her of widows and orphans who have been left in
that town totally destitute of the means of subsistence,
the result of the late disasters in the West Indies, bat
more especially in connection with the loas of the Rhone
and \Vye. The Mayor (Mr. J. R. Stabbing) presided ; and
among those present were Captain Mangles, chairman of '
the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company ; the Right
Hon. Rumen Gurney, Q.C., deputy-chairman of the com-
pany, and one of the members for the borough ; Major-
General Wilbraham, and Admiral Hands.
The Merge, in opening the meeting, read the,
following communisation, ',which he had received from
Colonel Biddulpb, dated Windsor Castle, Nov. 24th :
"It being undentood that a general subscription is about
to be raised for the benefit of the widows and orphans,and
others resident in the United Kingdom, who were de-
pendent on those who unhappily lost their lives in the
late disastrous hurricane in the West lodise, I am mom-
asanded by the Queen to acquaint you, as Mayor of South-
ampton, in which town the misfortune will be more gene-
rally felt than elsewhere, that her Majesty, deeply commis-
aerating these who have been thus deprived of their
relatives and of their means of support, desires to sub.
saibe 20W. to the fund."

•" Zanzibar, Sept. 28, 1867.

" My dear Sir Roderick,—You know that a rumour has
been current on the coast to the effect that a white man
had been seen near UAL Smelt a story came to us at a
time when it was quite impossible that Livingstone could
be the man. Now, however, another narrative has reached
us, which, if we believe, it is I think dillicult to avoid the
conclusion that our distinguished traveller may even yet
snowed, mid disprove the story given us of his death by
the Johanna men.

The Maros then proceeded to say that it bad been felt
that, in consequence of the calamity being so wide-spread,
only • national subscription could meet it ; and under
those circumstances it had been suggested that relief
should be extended to every British subject in the United
Kingdom who was a sufferer through the disasters.
The Right Hon. RUKSILL GUMMY, M.P., moved • reso-
lution in conformity with these views, which was unanL
measly adopted by the meeting, and a subscription list
wu thereupon opened, and realised upwards of
1,000 f., among the subscribers being Mr. G. Mof-
fatt, M.P., 100 guineas ; Right Hon. Russell Gurney, 10
guineas; engineers of the Peninsular ant Oriental Com-
pany (first instalment), one hundred guineas. Captain
Mangles said he could not now announce a subscription on
behalf of the Royal Mail Company, but there would be a
meeting of the board of directors on Wednesday, when he
should drive to set a good example to his colleagues, and
he had no doubt that the sup.: forwarded to the mayor
would be quite satisfactory to those who had already sub-
scribed so liberally. Other resolutions were adopted, and
the meeting concluded with three cheers for the Queen.

Yesterday, at tho Mansion-house, a committee,
consisting of the Bight Hon. the Lord Mayes, as tree-
sorer; Baron Lionel Rothschild, M.P., the Right Hon.
Russell Gurney, M.P., Mr. James Allan, director of the
Peninsular and Oriental Company, Captain Engledue,
Mr. B. H. Hartley, and Mr. George Moffatt, M.P., was
formed for the purpose of receiving subscriptions for the
relief of the distress occasioned by the hurricane in the
West Indies, especially at St. Thomas and Tortola, and
of the families of the officers and seamen of the Royal
Mail Company's service who have perished, and of other
sufferers by the calamity. By the post of yesterday mim-
ing the Lord Mayor received a letter from Mr. Stabbing,
the mayor of Southampton, with a view of enlisting his
lordship's sympathies with the prevailing distress there
among she widows and orphans and other dependent rela-
tives of the sufferers by the wrecks of the numerous we-
ak during the hurricane, and with the injured and maimed
survivors resident in any part of the United Kingdom.
The Lord Mayor and the committee above named are pre-
pared to receive subscriptions at the Manslon•house daily
between 10 and 2 o'clock.

"A Haien trader at Bagamoyo told me three days ago
lent he had heard &rumour that some white man had been
seen at Wombs; of this be seemed to have doubt. To-day
he brought a native whom he introduced and left alone
with me. I entered into conversetion, and led him on in
an irregular way to give an account of his journey, with-
out 'ding his imagination by any leading questions, de-
tetmining to meet him again and fill in the details. When
I dismissed him after my first conversation, itappeared
that a ship would sail for Batas, immediately„ not to
lose a chance, Mr. Churchill, the weed, to whom I gave
the notes, at once sent all to Bombay, with
a request that the substance might be tele-
graphed to the Foreign-aloe, viz., that we had
now some grounds for believing that a white man resem-
bling Livingstone had been seen to the south of the See of
UAL This native with the rat of the caravan left Ba-
moyo and passed along the usual trade route to
Wombs and Marangs,wheretheyremained trading for some
time, and again returned to the coast. When in one of
the villages under Maranga, which is a region governed several chiefs more or leas dependent on one para-
mount, a white man arrived with a party of thirteen
blacks, who spoke OushelL All had firearms, and six
carried double-barrelled guns. The white man was of
moderate height, not stout, dressed in white, and wore a
cloth wrapped round his head. He gave the chief a look-
ing-glass, and was offered ivory, which he declined,
stating that he was not a trader. He then went northwards.
Ido not know that this man can tell much more. He is
a simple carrier who formed part of a caravan, but
if we can find the head sun of the party it will be pos-
sible, no doubt, then to identify this stranger, who seems
to our hopeful imagination so like our long lost friend.
And then only think of the revelations be will have to
make to us ! It is decided that we go to Begarnoye in two
I days to make inquiry, but we must do so quietly.
The story of a white man having been seen at Craws.
to the west of the lake, is a distinct thing from the more
definite narrative we now have ; but the one adds ala-
i firmation to the other, and shows us that, if it be Living-
stone on whose track we now are, be has more than half
finished his work, and is about to go to the Albert Nyanza.
I may mention that there is now no doubt that the white
man of whom I wrote formerly, long ago, as having been
seen on one of the lakes by an Arab who remained ea the
oosst,was a Tark, one of the traders from Gondokoro, who
have been met with in Uganda by Zanzibar merchants.
The description fully satisfied me of this, and not is
more probable. Thus the traders of Bent and
have now met in the interior of Africa. Speke's route has
been quickly followed. How far this has been for the
immediate benefit of Africa others may judge, In the end
Africa will be overrun with traders in all directions, and
then the vast resources of this continent will be shown.
"Postsoript.—Since writing the above, I have again seen
my informant and placed before him my books of photo-
graphic portraits. In the first he did not the
likeness of the man be saw in the interior, alt ough it
contained a very fine side view of Livingstime. In the
second be at once pointed to a staring likeness of Living-
stone, which I kept as a caricature, and aid 'That is the
man.' But,' he added, ' come on to Begemoyo, and
see my master and the other ma ; they have seen him
also, and will tell you all they know.' Suspend your
opinion for little. Mr. Churchill and Igo in two days to
opinion
iinoyo to make inquiry. Plasm communicate this
news to Mr. Webb, Mime Livingstone, and other friends,
but until my next maintain some caution.

" Join! Krai."

The following correspondenoe was also read :
" Foreign-office, Nov. 23,1867.

" Sir,—lam directed by the Secretary of State forirovelpt
Affairs to transmit to you, for the information of the
Royal O•ophical Society, the accompanying despatch,
which has been received from her Majesty's Consul at
Zanzibar reporting that information has been received
calculated to induce the belief that Dr. Livingstone was
living seven months before the date of Mr. Churchill's
despatch.—l stu, sir, your most obedient servant,
Sir R. L Murchison, K.G.B. "..I.LUES Minutia.
" Zanzibar, Sept. 28,1867.

"My Lord,—A native boat being on the point of leaving
this for Nakano, near Aden, I hasten to transmit to your
lordship the oopy of a despatch, thin day's date,that I have
addressed to the Chief Secretary to the Government of
Bombay, acquainting him with the intelligence, gathered
within the last two days from people who have oome from
the interior of Africa, with reference to a white man
having been seen seven months ago, at a place called
Marengo, 00 miles due east of Zanzibar. Since writing
the accompanying despatch, the slave, on whose informa-
tion more particularly the belief of Dr. Livingstone being
alive may be based, has, among a hundred photographs,
recognised the portrait of Dr. Livingstone, the man he saw
at Marengo. (Cheers.) This is indeed glorious new"—
(hear, hear)—and Pr. Kirk and I leave this for Bagamoyo
us soon as possible to gather further information from
ether members of the caravan to which the slave in ques-
tion is attached.—l have, bo., "'H. A. MeacHiu.'"
The enclosed statement, made in the Invali language,
before Dr. Kirk, her Majesty's vice-consul, by a native,
lately returned from the interior of Africa, in addition to
the portion quoted byDr. Kirk, in the preceding letter,gave
the f•glowing particulars of his return route:—"Marunga
is a level country ; there are two rivers in it—one, the
Chambezi, is full of hippopotamus ; the other is smaller.
In both the water flows gently to the north. The head
chief of Marengo is named Kitumbna ' • there are four
others, namely, Chugs, Kamm*, Chaska, and Chum.
From Marengo to Wewba is seven days' march. The chief
of Wemba is named Clumbenanga ; there are under him
Mtuko, Inwarows, Marumni, and Komi's. From Wemba
to Mambwe is two days, to Ungamwanga seven days, to
Wiwa two days. Inika is claw to Who ; from kilo: to
Uragu three days, to Muua three days, to Utron one day,"
he. This statement was made only two boors before the
departure of the mail. The Etonian who brought the pre-
sent information else states that at Bagarnoyo there is a
rumour that a white man has been seen alive in the men-
' try of Korea, to the vest of the Sea of Ujiji. It will be
necessary to go to Ilagaruoyo for the purpose,. of obtaining
further information. JOHN KIRK.

Sept. 28, 1867.
In the discussion which followed Captain Sherard
Osborn, Captain Malady, sad Mr. Waller concurred in
the chairman's hopeful view of Dr. Livingstone 's fate, and
agreed that Dr. Kirk's letter was extremely important.
Mr. Crawford still refused to entertain any hope. A com-
munication was also read from Sir Samuel haler, who had
hitherto refused to believe in the slightest chance of the
great traveller's safety, but who had been led by Dr.
Kirk's letter to reverse his opinion, and to agree with the
president's views. Sir Samuel also suggested that it would
be very desirable if the Egyptian government would send
an expedition to Lake Tangauaki from Egypt, which expe-
dition he thought would meet Dr. Livingstone. Sir Samuel
added that he should be glad to join such a glorious expo
dition, as hid present inactivity was worse than an African
fever.

THE LATE DISTURBANcES AT SANDHURST.
Yesterday, Colonel C. R. Egerton, deputy-adjutant
general at tbo Horse-Guards, attended at the Royal
Military College, Sandhurst, and, assisted by Colonel Hal-
lowell, the commandant, made an investigation into the
accuracy of the several reports that had been circulated
relative to the disturbances at York Town and Black-water a
few weeks since. Several wi.nesses were called, and their
examination went to show that the various accounts had
been greatly exaggerated, and that the so-called "rioting*
was after all only a " spree" by a few young gentlemen,
the only serious damage having been indicted accidentally.
A deputation, consisting of several influential tradesmen of
Smthurst, were presentat the court of inquiry, and they
said they wished it to be distinctly understood they were
in no fear whatever from the behaviour of the cadets, nor
were the inhabitants subjected to that " terrorism " which
had been laid to their charge. Great interest is felt in
Sandhurst as to the result of this inquiry, as it is acknow-
ledged on every hand that the occurreuces now being in-
quired into were only the result of a " spree " on the part
of fourteen or fifteen of the cadets, in which none of the
others took the least part. One young officer, on being
told on parade of the alleged disturbances, at once stepped
lout of the minks and confessed the part he had played.
Colonel Egerton is understood to be ounducting this in
quiry for the information of the Duke of C.aubridge, who
will, no doubt, should occasion arise, refer to the matter
inparliament.
PERVERSIoN.—The Rey. Arthur Mayo, V.C.,
who for the last eighteen months has been assistant curate
of St. Peter's, Plymouth, has been recently received into
the Roman Communion. He was at the same time re-
baptized by a different name. Mr. Mayo, who graduated
B.A. from Magdalen Hall, at Oxford, in 180, was for.
merly a midshipman in the Indian n ,vy, and received the
Victoria Crow for distinguished bravery while serving on
shore during the mutiny with the Indian Naval Brigade.
—Church Opinion.
PATENT-OFFICE MUSEUM, SOUTH KENSINGTON.—
Number of visitors for the week ending Nov. 23, 2,442.
Total number since the opening of the Museum free daily
(12th May, 1858), 1,203,3.52.

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