Bellevue gazette. [volume] (Bellevue City, N.T. [i.e. Neb.]) 1856-1858, 1857-04-02

| pTNauOnS WIN tnc ncnft OF true hero
not as sacrifices, but as victories, he reach.
ed ST. Paul de Loando, in May, 1854
after foot Journey of a thousand miles
from his mission among the Bechuanus.-
He remained at ST. Loando until the close
of the year, when he set ont for the un.
known East. In March he arrived a
QuiIlimane, where he was taken up by O
British man-of-war. On the way he ira
ced the Lceambye down to the Zambeze
thus demonstrating the existence ia the
centre Of this unknown land Of river som,
two thousand miles long,
This immense stream, whose discovery
is the great fruit of the journey, is in it
self an enigma without parallel. But d
small potion of its waters reach the sea
coast. Like the Abyssinian Nile, it fall
through basaltic cleft, near The middle
of It's course, which reduces its breadth
from one thousand TO twenty yards
Above these falls it spreads out periodi-
cally into great sea, filling hundreds of
lateral channels; below it is n tranquil
stream Of totally different character.
It's mouths seems 10 be closing, the
southermost was nayigable when the
Portuguese first arrived in the country,
three hundred years ago, but it has long
since ceased to I've practicable. The Quill
imane mouth has Of late years been i'm
pasSible even for canoe, from July to
February, and for two or three hundred
miles up the river navigation is never at.
tempted in the dry season. And in this
very month of July, when the lower por-
tlon of the river, after its April freshets,
has shrunk to mere dribleit, above the
falls the river spreads out like sea over
hundreds of square miles. This, with FREE
quent ca,aracts, and the hostility Of the ma
tives, would seem TO be an efectual bar TO
the high hopes of fat trade and flIibuster-
ing in which English merchants and Jour-
nails are now indulging. ..'
During this Unprecedented march, alone
and among savages, 10 whom white face
was miracle, DIR. Livingstone. was COM
PEELED TO struggle through indescribable
hardships. The hostility of the natives he
conquered by his intimate knowledge of
their character aud the Bechuana. tongue
TO which theirs is related. He waded
rivers and slept in the sponge and ooze
of marshes, being often so drenched as 10
be compelled to turn his armpit into a
watch pocket. His cattle were destroyed
by the terrible tse.tse-hy, and he was too
poor TO purchase canoe. Lions were
numerous, being worshipped by many Of
the tribe as the receptacles Of the depar-
ted souls Of their chiefs; dangerous, too, as
his crushed arm testifies. However. he
thinks the fear of African wild beasts grcu-
ter in England than in Africa, Many Of
his documents were lost while crossing a
river in which he came near loosing his
life also, but he has memoranda Of the lat
titudes and longiludes of multitude of
cities, towns, rivers and mountains, which
will go far TO fll up the unknown region
IN our aliases.
Toward the interior he found the coun-
try more fertile and more populous. The
natives worshipped idols, believed 10 trans
migrated existence after death, and per-
formed religious ceremonies IN groves and
woods. They were less ferocious and
suspicious than The sea-board tribes, bad
tradition of the deIuge, and more settled
governments. Some of them practiced
inoculaton, and used quinine, and all were.
eager for trade, being entirely dependent
on English calico for clothing, small
piece Of which would purchase a slave.--
Their language was sweet and expressive.
Although their women, on the whole, were
not well treated, man having as many
wives as he chose, they were complete mis-
treSses Of their own houses and gardens
which the husband dared not enter in his
wife's absence. They were fond of show
and glitter, and as much as one hundred
and fifty liars has been given for an
English Rifle. On the arid platena of the
interior, water-E,elons supplied the place
Of water for some months of the year, as
they do on the plains Of Hungary in sum
mer. A Quaker tribe on the river Zanga,
never fight, never have CONSUMPTION, scrof-
ula, hydrophobia, cholera, smallpox, OF
measels. These advantages, however, are
oounterbaleHced by the necessity Of assid-
uous devotion 10 trade and raising Children
TO make good their loss from the frequent
inroads of their fighting neighbors,
DIR, Livingstone's discoveries, in their
character and their commercial value,
have been declared by Sir Roderic Muir
Gibson to be superior 10 any, since the dis
covery Of the Cape of Good Hope by Vas
co de Cana. Bat greater than any COM
mercial value is the lesson which teach
that all obstacles yield TO resolule man.
re- Why is liquor tavern a ccr'ra-
diCtion in terras 7 Because il is an I'm
convenience.