The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-11-04

naent Of her Majesty's shin Pluto write. to
the london AMemoa~, under date Fernando July 20
this place and with the senor o6cer Al
Loanda, We were sent the river Congo to settle dis
and some Portuguese After this was arranged we re
turned to Loanda for etters but the Poiyphemus
not arriving in time the ship sailed again for the Congo
and was left behind in Of gigs with four kroo.
men, for the mail rurng stay met at the house
OF one Of the commissioner one Of the cxtraordi-
nhry men have ever seen, Dr. Livingstone he has just
arrived from the Cape overland most arduous under
taking ana accomplished before although Of
teray from any Of his instead Of setting
out with half hundred attendants hor es bullock wa
CONS &C. he commenced hs journey carrying with him
only sextant chronoeter tent four servants and
as many days provisions relying Providence ana his
gun for supply when these were gone. After
to the northeast in order avoid the deserts and
hostile tribes in their vicinity that lay on their left
Zambeg and others the names Of which have forgot
ten till he arrived at large town. There the chief
was very hopitabe he remained short time to recruit
his health, having been nearly drowned and starved
half dozen times during the nine months II took him
to perform this part of his journey and his badly
wandered evening from his attendants after they
had pitched their tent In quest Of game when he
on down ne ready tos
must have been knocked down at the moment and
stunned, as he remembers nothing from the time he
when they they found the doctor nsensbe and
the lion lying dead alongside him.. When he left,
westward for the transmission of his ivory gave him
twentyfour OF his people to assist him his journey
After leaving, he again travelled to the northeast until
he arrived in the parallel Of LOaDda Now the tug
of He had upwards Of thousand miles to travel
the uneXpored countries Of charts, tract
never hitherto troaden by any white man. and wholly
unknown to the blacks he had as yeti how
ills part Of their journey proved to be the
and till he arrived near Cassanga on the Por
tucIese frontier that he met with any molestation
Tie country he found TO be thicsly populated and the
inhabitants very r+aceahy disposed From their never
having white before, you may fancy what
stopped tie people from far and hOcked round him
with the utmost establishment pictured their
counteances. As the doctor very much sunburnt
his color did not much surprise them his hair
which was very long; this was the great object of
attraction wherever he went, and highly favored did
those fancy themselves who became the Of
lock Of it, Every tribe he met with had idea Of
Supreme Being and future state of existence though
they all worship, in addition, various animals that
they hold sacred AT every place he stopped they sup
piled him literally with PROVISIONS and it was not, rs
mentioned before till he arrived the Portuguese
rories that lie met with any trouble There the inha
btants have been in the habit Of kidnapping the people
further in land to sell to the Portuguese for slaves and
fearing should road be opened that way it would spoil
their traffic they became very troublesome and wanted
the doctor to pay toll nearly every step he took how
ever, by putting on bold front, he managed to make
his way through and arrived at Ioanda safely in the
beginning of June, making exactly two years since he
left tho Cape The doctor Is very much emacated from
the hardshp he has undergone and has not recovered
the use Of hts arm perfectly yet but he is
well he is determined to return, trying this time find
whole of his attendants board and showed them
the ship; having salt water before any
thing afoat larger than canoe, they very much
surprised and delighted though they told the doctor they
them their return perfectly astonishing did every
thing appear to them.