The Sun.
London, England, 1868-04-27 00:00:00

DR. LIVINGSTONE.

A letter leis reached Edinburgh from Dr. Living-
stone, which appears to contain three or more dates
ranging from Nov. 10, 1836, to Feb., 1867. So long
as Dr. Livingstone was among slave-deality, tribes
he could not scud a letter coastwise, nor indeed get
into communication with the people. The Arab
slave-traders take to their heels as soon as they hear
that the English are on the road. lam a perfect
bugbear to them. Eight parties thus skedaddled,
and last of all my Johanna men, frightened out of
their wi's by stories told them by a member of a
ninth party who had been plundered by his slaves,
who walked off and left me to face the terrible
Mazitu with nine Nassick boys. The fear which
the English name has struck into the souls of the
slave-traders has thus been an inconvenience. I
could not go round the north en 4 of the lake for fear
that my Johanna men, at sight of danger, would do
there what they actually did at the southern end,
and the owners of two dhows now on the lake kept
them out of sight, lest I should burn them as slavers,
and I could not cross in the middle." Dr. Living-
stone speaks of slave-dealing as the great blight of
the country. Through the Babisa territory no food
is to be had, as the people are great slave-traders,
and have, in consequence, little industry. Among
the Manganja, who are not slave-sellers, it was a
relief to find himself. He had to avoid the mau-
rauding parties of Mazitu, or Zulus, and once
nearly walked into their hands. A part of the time
he describes as very hard, during which ho pene-
trated through a damp dripping forest, so leafy that
nothing could be seen fifty yards off, with the bones
of the party sticking through with knawing hunger
as if they would burst the skin. It was then that
two volunteers, who had exchanged loads with one of
the Doctor's trusty boys, unable to stand the hungry
marches through dripping forests, made off with
Steady's load, his clothes, the plates, dishes, much of
the powder, and two guns ; and it was impossible to
trace them after the drenching shower which fell
on their departure. The loss that Dr. Livingstone
most deeply regretted was his medicine, which fell
on his heart like a sentence of death by fever. Ile
last wrote from the chief man's place in Beinba or
Lobemba, who had given him a cow, which be was
to kill on the morrow, and have what 12cealls
Christmas feast, though the time was February.
The stating,
considers it the water line of the cont,ip,
The spot was 4,500 feet above the sea
" we will begin to descend when we b
and
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it down at 10 deg. 10 min• aulevel, And ie
10 min. 2 sec. east long.

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