The New York herald., 1868-05-07
AFRICA.
Letters from Doctor Iivingstone-Frirht ard
Desertion Of the JOHANNA aIen.

Letters from Doctor I.ivingstorc-Frirbt ard
Desertion Of the johanna aIen.
The Glasgow Hera,d of April 81 publishes the fol.
lowing extracts from letters received by Mr.. Young
of Kelly, from Doctor livingstone
COUNTRY OF THE CHiPETA, Nov. TO- 1896
MY DEAR --lt has been quite impossible to
send letter coastwse ever since we lett The RO-
YUMA. The AraD slave traders take TO tner heels
as soon as they hear tnat the English are on
the road. am q perfect bngbear 10 them Eight
parties thus sketaddted and, last Of ALL my Johan-
ma men, frightened out OF their wits BY stories told
them by member OF ninth party VINO had been
plundered OF mis- slaves, walked of anu lett me 10
face the terrible MaZtu with Na ssic8 boys The
fear which the English name has struck into tle
souls OF the slave traders has thus been an incOn.
venience. Icould not go round the north end of the
lake for fear that my Johanna men, at sight of
danger, would do there what they actually did at
the southern end, and the owners OF two dnOws
now on the lake kept them out of sight lest /
cross in the middle. Rounding the southern end
we got up Kinks Range, and among Manganja, not
yet made slave sellers. This was great treat for,
like all who have moi been contaminated by that
blight, they were very kind and having been worried
enough by unwilling sepoys and cowardiy Johanna
men, | followed my bent by easy marches among
friendly, generous people, to whom tried to impart
some new ideas In return for their hospitality.
The country Is elevated and the climate cool.
One OF the wonders told oil us in successive
villages was that slept without fires. The
boys having blankets did not need fires; while the
Inhabitants, being scantiiy clad, have their huts
pasered inside aud out, even 70 the roofs to make
themselves comfortable. our progress since has
BEN slow, from other and less agreeable causes.
Some parts have been dcnuded OF food by marauding
Malitu or Iuus. We have been fam to avoid these
and gone zgzag. Once we nearly walked into the
hands OF n parry, and several times we have been
detained by ruuicrs OF the enemy in front.
JANUARY 1867.
! mention several causes Of delay. must men
tion the rainy season as more patent than all except
hunger. In passns tnrOu1i the babisa country we
f0uni tnat food was not to be had. The Babsa are
great slave traders, and have IN consequence but
little nds ry. Tnls seoms TO the chief cause Of their
having no food to spare. The rains, too, more
copons than ever saw them anywhere in Africa.
But we snail get on In time.
lam in Bemba, or Lobcnsba, and at the chief mans
place, which mas three stockades around it and a
deep dry ditch around the inne. one Tic seems d
fine fellow, and gave us COW to slaughter on OFT
arrival Yesterday. We are going to hold Christmas
ont when we came TO a place of plenty. We have
had precious hard lines, and l would not comp,ain
haa do mot %r been gnawng hunger for many
would burst the skin. When we were in d part
where game abounded, lilled the pot with iirst
rate rine gwen me by Captain Fraser, but elsewhere
we had but very short raiions OF species OF milet
called 'macren which passes the stomach almost
unchanged. ihe sorest grief of all was the loss OF
the medicine box which your friend at ApOthccares
Hall so kindly ntted up. All other things divided
among the bundles so that IL one or two were lost
we should not be rendered destitute OF such articles
pul this gave to steady boy, and trusted him.
He exchanged for march with two volunteers
who behaved remarkably wed tnl at last
hungry marches through dripping forests
cold hungry nights, and latiguing days overcame
their virtue, and they made or with ''Stcady's''
load all his Clothes plates, dishes much OF our
powder and two guns and 1t was impossible to trace
them after the first drenching shower, which fell
Immediately after they left u.s. The forests are SO
dense and leafy one cannot see Hfty yards on any
side. This loss, with all our medicine, fell on my
heart Ike sentence of death By fever, as was the
case with poor Bishop Mackenzie, but shall try
native remedies and trust In Him who has led me
hitherto ~ help me still. We have been mostly on
elevated land, between three thousand aud five
thousand feet above the sea. think we are now ON
the water sucd ior which was to seek. We are
10ur thousand i've hundred feet above the sea level
ana VIII begin to descend when 40. This maj be
put down as 10 deg. 10 min. south latitude and
Longitude ~ deg. 30 min. sec. We found 10 marty
Oh black hali-castc Arab slaycrs here and one pro-
misses To lake letters To Zanzibar but they give me
only half day 10 write: but shah send wnat can,
and hope thai they will be good us their word.
we have not had single difficulty with the people,
put we nave been very slow. Eight miles day Is q
good march Tor US loaded ~ the boys are: and we
have often been obliged TO 20 ziczaq as mentioned.
BLESSINGS on You all. Love 10 Mrs. -. Hearty
salaam 10 bartholomew. Boxes first rate: locks bad.
tIhe articles referred to were tin boxes, made In
Hlr'go" for the reception OF light goods and pecu-
marry constructed 10 be carried by the negro pOrters
during i'h ingstones passage through the ncrior.I