The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-11-21
ANOTHER LETTER FROM DOCTOR LIVING

STONE
The following highly interesting letter from Dr..
Livingstone, the celebrated African explorer, was
received by Sir George Grey the morning ofhis
departure from the Cape for England:
RIVER SHIRE, June |, 1859.
My DEAR SIR GEORGE: We have lately discov-
cred very fine lake by getting up this river in the
steam launch about 100 miles, and then marching
some fifty more on foot 1t is called Shirwa and
Lake Ngam is a mere pond in comparison It is
moreover particularly interesting from the fact re-
ported by the natives on its Shores that it is scpa-
rated by strip OF land OF only five six miles in
width from Nyanja Lake N'yiuyes-the stars
which Burton has gone to explore. We could hear
nothing of his party at Shirwa, and having cot no
European news since you kindly sent some copies Of
the Tunes last year, we are quite in the dark as to
whether he succeeded or not. Lake Shirwa has no
outlet, and its waters bitter but drinkable 1t
abounds in fishes, lceches aliigatOrs, and hippOpOt
ami. We discovered also, by examining partially a
branch of the Shire called uo, that one portion of
Shrwa is not more than thirty miles distant from
point that may easily be reached by this launch
which by newspaper measurement draws thirteen
inches, and actually thirty inches The Lake
Shrwa is very grand 1t is surrounded on all sides
by lofty green mountains. DzOmba-or as the peo-
pie nearest it say, Zomba-is over G0OO feet hirh
of the same shape Table Mountain, but inhabited
on the top; others are equally high but inaccessi-
Bile. 1t is high land region-the lake itself being
about 200 feet above the 1t is twenty or thirty
miles wide, and fifty sixty long. On going some
way up hill we in the far distance two noun
tain lOps, rising ike lllc ISLANDS on WaterY hOF
zon. An inhabited mountain island stands near
where first came to it. From the size of the
wares it is supposed to be deep. Mr.. Maclear will
show you the map. DR.. Kirk and |, with fifteen
Makololo, formed the land party. The country is
well peoped, and very much like LOando In the
middle of the country many streams rise out Of
bOgs; the vegetation is nearly identical also. New
! er saw so much cotton grown as among the Manga
| no of the Shire and Shirwa valleys-all spin and
! weave it These the latitudes which | have al
! ways pointed out as the cotton and sugar lands
They pre-emncntly so; but such Is the disinter
estedness of some people that labor is exported to
! Bourboun instead of being employed here The
| only trade the people have is that of slaves and
! the only symptoms of impudence met were from
party Of BAHAMA save-traders but they changed
their department instantly on hearing that we were
English and not Portuguese. There are no Marayi
at or near Shirwa-they all west of the Shire;
that this lake can scarcely be called Lake Mara
vi The Portuguese know nothing of it, but the
Minister who claimed Blue Book for 1871 the
honor OF first traversipg the African continent for
two black men with Portuguese names must explain
why they did not cross Shirwa. 1t lies some forty
or fifty miles each side of the latitude of MOzam
bique. They came to Tee only, and lacked at least
four hundred miles of Mozambique We 90 back
to Shirwa in July, and may make push for Niyi-
nyeze. DAVID LlvINGsToNE.
FRoM PARAGUAY-C Captain Page, q. s. ", and
! President Lopez.-Later dates from Paraguay rep
resent that Capt. Page, of the L. s. Exploring Ex-
pedition, to whom President Lopez has particular
antipathy, had been received at Asuncion with an
outward show of respect but it seems that, in the
meanwhile, his Jesuitcal exceency Lopez had
been concOcting scheme which was intended to
Danish the last American out of the waters of Par
aguay and every vestge of civilization out of the
country. Capt. Page inquired by letter, if there
would be any obstacles placed in his way in the
free navigation of the interior waters Of Para
quay.
He was told that he might ascend the Paraguay
| river, and when he had accomplished that much
the government would then receive his proposition
to explore the Pilcomayo and find water course
to the mountains of Bolivia across the deserts of
| the Chaco. But in this ascent of the Paraguay,
| Lopez placed him under the most rigorous re-
straints, hoping that he would break through some
! OF them, and thus afford him an to accuse
the American officer Of violating he DEGREES of the
| dictator. 1t is against these decrees for any man
! to cut wood, every twig in the land belonging to
! Lopez. The United States Exploring Expedition
| was not relieved from the observance of this rule,
| and it had to buy its wood of Lopezs officials, at
! the cost of twenty dollars per cord-more than six
! times its value.
I The expedition had to pass points where there
! were officials to sell this wood and they must
! consequently cut it or come to dead halt. Lopez
hoped that the wood would be cut in this desperate
expedent, and the DEGREES violated, Just as he de-
sired-so that Captain Page might never stem the
current of the Pilcomayo. Not so, however. His