Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1857-04-16
The African Explorer.

The African Explorer.
In the London juvenile Missionary Mag
asiae there is a sketch OF DIR. Livingstone,
and of his recent discoveries, that we think
our readers will find very interesting. Al
/ though written for the Jureple, it has pro-
we'd 90 interesting to ourselves, that we
thihk il viii be SO also 10 others. young or
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RECENT TRAVELS OF Rev. DR.. LIVINGSTONE.
No missionary's name is better known to
our readers than that of DR.. Livingstone -
Some OF them, perhaps, may remember very
little about this good man, but that once
great lion sprung upon him, broke his arm,
and would no Doubt have killed him on the
spot, had not the fierce beast been tempted
away from the missionary to attack one of
the men who were with him. Others, pos
sibly, when they hear the name of
Livingstone, will call to mind the fact that,
while he was laboring at Kolobing, and
doing good there, the wicked Dutch Doors
came down upon the missionary station, ard
having killed many OF the people, who had
not injured them. and carried away others
into slavery, they destroyed the house, fur
niture, surgical instruments, and other pro-
perty of DR.. Livingstone, and lett the place
a ruin. But while, perhaps, these circun-
Stances may be remembered, most of our
readers will think OF DR.. Livingstone as the
great missionary traveller, who first discov-
cred the Lake Gnami, and who, since that
time, has been exploring unknown regions
OF Southern and Central Africa. THIS is
the great work in which he has spent the
last four years and half Before long, he
will publish book describing what he has
seen and done during that time; but he has
told US Of a few things which he met with
in his travels, ard which We are sure our
readers will be glad TO know
THE PROVIDENCE OF GOD.
And first Of a ii we may see how wonder.
fully our wise and gracious God sometimes
overrules the wickedness Of men for good
1t has been SO in the case of DR.. Living
stone. When he was quietly doing his mis-
siOnary work at kolobing, he mad no thought
of leaving that station to discover other
tribes, or to explore unknown regions. But
the Dutch beers forced am to leave his
missionary home, with the excellent Chief
Sechsle and his people, and to seek a new
sphere of labor far beyond their reach. 1t
was not in the heart oil these beers to make
-the missionary, whom they hated. ore oil
the greatest discoveries in the world, and
one OF the best friends Of the races whom
they wanted to enslave or destroy. When
they drove DR.. Livingstone from Kolobing,
they meant it Tor evil; but Gsd intended it
for good, as we see this day.
And j: should also be noted that, both by
nature and by grace. DR.. Livingstone was
singularly fitted for the great work he has
done. Had some men been driven as he
was from their station, they would have
sought to do good in other spheres already
opened. But DR.. Livingstone, like the
great apostle Paul, did not like to build up
a foundation which another had laid for him.
He desired to carry the glad news OF Gods
love aid Chris,'s salvation into regions
where those truths had never before been
heard. And he possessed such knowledge,
such resolution, such perseverance, such
strength OF body, of mind, aud OF faith in
God, as emine ntly fitted him to DO what he
desired.
STRANGE LANDS.
But we must now tell you what he has
done. Within the last four years and
half, he has travelled eleven thousand miles
through regions unknown and among tribes
Of Africa hitherto unvsited by white men,
and he has disc, vered that what, in former
days, was thought to be dry and thirsty
desert, desoate and solitary, is ga good land,
a land of brooks of water, OF fountains, and
depths that spring out of valleys and hills,
a land of wheat and ba-ley-a land of oil
olives and honev--a land wherein though
bread without scarceness-a land whose
stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou
mayest dig BRASS" He has also found this
land wei. poopled, and what is most impor-
tant, we'll prepared for the Christian mis-
sionary.
As at p-esant there is no map ofthe pre-
viousiy unknown country through which DR.
Livingstone Travelled, it will be scarcely
possible so 10 describe his journey as to
make the course OF it clear to our readers.
We shall, therefore, merely say that he
first went northward to place called Lin
yanti. Here he found himself in the midst
Of we'll Satered and fruitful region, and |
among the Mokoloj who are fine race of
negroes, very different in appearance and
character from thei Buchanans, but strong,
clever, and and peaceable. Their chief
treated the missionary with great kindness;
and as DR.. Livingstone wished to open a
way to the west coast, that chief sent
number of his people with him. Accompan-
led by these natives, after much suffering
and great danger, he reached the Portuguese
settlement of Loando. When he came to
this place, he was very ill indeed. snd re-
duced almost to a skeleton; but after few |
weeks, rest, kindness and medicine restored |
him. AS soon as he was well enough to
travel again, he resolved TO conduct back
the people who had accompanied him to
Linyanti. 1t was a weary journey, though |
a dangerous country; but, by Iods good
providence, he completed it, and reached |
the place in salty. As, however it was
plain that, in consequence OF the numerous
streams and swamps between that place and
Loando, no wagon road could be found or
formed to the west roast, he resolved to try
to open passage to the east. The attempt
was full o. danger and difficulty; but, taking
with him more than hundred nen , he sent
out and went till he had finished this won
derful journey, and reached the Portuguese
town of Quillimane. Here British ship Of
war was waiting for him by order of our
gracious Queens Government, and in her
he was taken to the Mauritius.
HOW HE LIVED.
But our young readers will be ready to
ask many questions about this long and nest
interesting Journey. "Was it not" some |