The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-03-17

waaer, Gss b. the high hnds NJ. NAe, Dr.. Kfks 40
aas country: Thsis ~. q change; q sinsis within
a.. few niss o. each oar, and 10 . %.
One Lake. onrws or 'a Tm ,ssRss o,ussS niles
but no one could tell how long Nyassa WAS Tho Shire
comes flowing out o. the whole year There are thirty
and are sure this could be abolished by missions.
see matters opening up ~bere never contemplated work
colonization Of our own honest Christian poor, ang with
sssas Sy ans W. SERoSass g. N s ss
mouths trip.
Mr.. Thomas Ceeg, Of Manchester, has published the
following letter received by him rom the brother OF Dr.
cotton when ssasf vaa. a. ss Sosu
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Tor East India cotton -
RIVER SHIRE, Nov. 4, 1850
,us A ,sa s1.h csec We have Just returned visit
ID OF greater importance, have discovered great
ssuoG growing and cotton manufacturing country The
short In the stape and feels Ike wool than cotton.
me foreign appears to DO Of good quality, with staple
requires planting only once in three years while The
pavo has to be planted annually In the highlands yet
", S people prefer the later because they say y makes
gent looking men IN one village "Yoa shoald plant plenty
Of cotton, and perhaps the English will come soon and
pnsd the elderly man. who was trader aud had ,rsv-
clled much and our own observations confirmed the
truth o. a Everywhere ws saw y wnie passing through
tcnde ruch further Every family appears 10 have piece
Of cation ground and was ray ING " zee how clear
XIX, while passing through part Of the region last
April, cotton patchts OF from two three acres eAch
any containing than one third Of an aero rboy wero
IN general about quarter OF acre each Ia every viii
lage We saw men busy cleaning, spinning, and weaving
cotton The looms Of the simplest rcssble conetruc
ton, and al the processes exceedingly elox.
This vast cetion region easily aceessb The Shire
Joins the Zasnbesi about loo miles from the SEA ba,w
The difficult parts OF the latter river ana for l2 miles the
Shire has deep chnnnoi the river being from $50 70 20
yards wide ll2 H,es from, It's mouth the cassracts
menco (At 10 deg tS min. 81 and for v miles the river
not nsygabe goods xoad 70 be carried overland
befe above the TO the LAKE Nyassa go miles
the liver sgsaD ravgabie md bow far b The north the
great nayeahs lake EXTENDS we do not snow The na.
yves said thSa would tc month"; to gt to the head Of
arc shire valley about IL miles VIDE a. the foot Of
the lake. BIZ expands 10 70 81, being bounded
both sides all the way by ranges OF s the range on
ceedpgy fertile ran on both shes Ct The river I've ira
yelled On the east * the rver) and Petsy we'll cultivated
1vel Of he sea AssSaDe The eastern range Of bills BY
sVSp path, We reached chateau 900 or 900 feet
hehrs secox ascent Of coo feet and We ind another
peteax, three four miles wfde and in short time
gsthe behcf part upwsrss feet above tina level
o. Ma sea, Gad and ousevs an extensive Table land
with in these three distincx divisions extends dis,
ruse below ee casaracs Tnss high table land ia from
swel fezrteenme wide rxd is eastern side slopes
feet above the sea levc, esst Of which some
bfty mou.;alns
On Tho table land nr,reerous hills and two noun.
~Ds-fuadzua, abcst 5000 feet hish zornba, a tho
uorhey extremity, whch~~s asccndcd, from 1900 TO
5000 lest in height and twenty mes long from forth
south. The whole cf this country remarkably we'll
wasgrcd wonderfully rcn rous arc streams ana NOM
tain MIA OF cool, GEAR grshug water. Even zsmba has
. p sDSu ~ yarSs %ss a.xng Rs
streams anc fnc spring in q single hour ard ths
At tke end Of the dry rroson
q@trn tn ~1x~in nrl1
m.e me ayr wsa orecng. and we saw an unusually
'snce number Of o!ds, ~ headed and women The
grown, but where they are srsuay 70 ssng i,soyins
Nenty oS thirty msec hollow the casATss and extends
plains and IN the sbsnS The srs So .aa on rro Ss
pe 1T the lake and In de fe1t places FOR th.r miles
ssiow and Also sgsr below the caarscs, while the
i've cultivated ihfouyhou's TIE whoto extent Of country
Tue people live In vlag =, and pretty Numerous
they seem 70 be M iDdo Rr,ous 10 dug
The bills and each village has one o. two suc.rg houses
From their native ron they manufacture ues axee
spears arrow heads, kni vs, and ornaments
consists either ofsae ~t OF trees ns OF goats
there are few orpc Id animals IN the highlands
the well rcopled pkns snd nstvc cloth; snd they AZ
dreo are often seen es work in the field. This
really Zine county tos benevolent enterprise
ntcattcn, with bot siDse exception. Let . mark
be opened, or an sscscy sppciased for u
iDercaae tho ansant rsissd 70 q is.se extent, e
docs mot require Tho toll which Il does In 4
Upueo BSAae8 - mere efe % JYo4@ 70 kHiSt
very ANXIOUS TO asde At The Villages eculd hear d
wonen pounding corn afi ogt, to have neal 70 soil ;.
fore we1eft hs,oopIe OF silsee Whidl we passo<
without etoppug, followed ~, endeayorpg to INDUCE
TO remeh al pst with theua. AZ Last Argument the
csied afer us: Axre to hsvc II said that white pcop!
passed. through our country, and did see them p
We uoAoed extense tracts II land on the pains wner
saevses from tho soil These would pro0ably BE- foun,
well adeeped for s.. Island the foreign cotton become
longer in the staple-on these lands
Iencleee specimens Of tho two Of costcn picked
different parts on the plains and 10 the highands tn
cotton seed thought w&s nearly all killed drip,
the voyage. Peaso present my kind regards to Mrs O.
and beiscve me 70 semain sincerely yours,
CHARLES LIVINGSTONE.