The New York herald., 1868-05-11


treble line Of stockades and deep ditch around the
inner one The chief seems frank, jolly person, a%na %
having CATTLE We mean TO rest a little with him. we
are very much emaciated but, like certain races OF
pigs take ON fat kindly Our sorest loss has been ai
the sea, but, having rains every day feel that we
need, like the cattle OF the people the proecuon oi
nuts regret that my mpes if from
Tanganyika. Our progress hitherto mas peen WY WY
slow The boys cannot 60 more tan IS eno1 op egr or
me- too, with only heavy The n1,n iaIviJSNGSToNE ai
| TT 1rrrrR To SIR RopERIcK MURCHIsON.
| BEMBA, Feb. 2, 1887.
MY DEAR SIR RoDERIoK-This Is the drst oppor..
tuny have had of sending letter to the coast, and
il i is by party of black Arab slave traders from
| Bagamoyo, near Zanzibar They had penetrated
than we did In my despatch to Lord Clarendon
! gave but meagre geographical report because the
ayag wren nD hat through the night Persuaded
them to give me an hour or two this morning and If
yours is fuller than his lordships you will know how
| TO manage. mentioned to him that l could not go
round the northern end of Lake Nyassa because the
Johanna men would have fled at the first sight OF
OF the acts of the terrible Mazitu, at its southern
extremity. Had l got them fairly beyond the
lake, they would have stuck to me; but so long as
we had Arab slave parties passing US they were not
TO be depended on and they such inyeterae
my following was reduced thereby to nine African
boys, freed ones, from school, at Nassck Bombay.
intended to cross at the middle OF the lake, but all
me Arabs (at the crossing stationl ned as soon as
they heard that the English coming and the
owners OF two dhows now on the lake kept them out
OF sight lest should burn them AS slayers | re-
NAMED at the town of Matake, which Il on the water
shed between the seacoast and the lake, and about
fifty miles from the latter. There at least q
thousand houses in the town, and Mataka Is the
most powerful chief III the country was in his
district which extends TO the lake from the middle
OF July to the end OF September. lie was anxious
that some of the liberated boys should remain with
him. and tried my best to induce them but in vain
lie wished TO be shown how TO make use OF his cat
tie in agriculture; promised to try and get some
other boys acquainted with indian agriculture for
him. That IL the best point have seen for an in
huental sation;and Mataka showed some sense Of
right when his people went, without his knowledge,
TO plunder 1T part Of the lakehe ordered the cap
tves and cattle to be sent back This was his own
spontaneous act ana 1t took place before our airval
aed S of Sw ene sn snga Nren iey ot Stn
dozen boys and thirty head OF cattle and calves. l
gave him trinket in memory OF his good conduct
at which he was delighted, or 1t had not been with
out opposition that he carried out his orders, and he
showed the token OF myapprobaton in triumph,
Leaving the shores of the lake, we endeavorea to
ascend Kinks range, but the people below were
afraid Of those above, ana it was only alter an old
friend katosa or Kiemasura, .had turned out with
his wives 10 carry our extra loads that we got up.
1t is only The edge OF plateau peoped by various
shaving; III fact, they had driven away lot OF arab
slave traders short time before We used to think
we Know The Kanthunia, or climbers, live ON the
mountains that rise out of the plateau The Chipea
live more ON the plains there; the Echewa still fur
tner north. We Went west among q very hospiable |
people till we thought we past the longitude of
the Maztu; we then turned NORTH and all but walked
After a rather zigzag course we took up the point
we had left in 1865 or say 20 minutes west of Chi
manga's, crossed the Loangwa IN II deg. 40 min s.,
as u l0ws IN the bed oil an anc ent lake, and after
emerging out OF this great hollow we assembled the |
plateau OF Lobisa at tie southern limit OF III deg ).
me NUS on one part OF II rise up to $500 feet |
above the sea. While we were in tie lowlands |
could easily supply our party with meat, large game
being abundant but up ON these highlands Of the
Babsa no game was TO be found. The country, hav
ing become depopuiated by the shaving IN winch the
people engage /, rs now vast forest, with here and
grain IS suwn IN litc patches IN the forest, and tie
people had nOtain, 10 se.i. We had good deal |
OF actual anIwing hunger, day altea day trod |
wretched wl,d iruiIs and lots of mushrooms. |
A woman can collect load OF half hundred |
weight. After cooking they pound them into what
they call porriige; but woe is me they arc good
only for producing dreams OF the roast beef OF by
gone days. Ihey collect six kinds and reject about
ten, some as large as the crown Of ones hat When
we got to the Chanbeze which was true to the char
ac.er OF the zanbel IN having abundant animal life
II ITS waters we soon got an antelope on its banks
clear water, but the lines OF bushy trees which
showed its actual banks were not more than forty
yards apart. We arrived here .at Bembaj the last
day OF January. 1t is astockaded Village with three
lines or defence, the inner one having deep
that we are ON the watershed we @ SEEK i bctween he
ChainDezc and Leopula. have not had any time |
to take observations as It is the rainy season and al
most always cloudy; but we shall rest little here
and get some flesh on our bones. We are about 10 |
deg 10 min. s., ~ deg. so min. L. Altitude about |
Luapua, is said 10 be very large river but hope
10 send fuller information from Tangan,ika. | |
have done all the hunting myself have enjoycd good
health ana 10 touch OF fever but we lost all our
medicine, the sorest loss OF goods ever sustained;
so am hoping If fever comes to send it or by native
remedies and trust in the wachful care of Higher
Power. The chief here seems Jolly, frank person,
but unless the country il insecure don't see The use
OF his lines Of crcumval alton. lie presented COW |
on our arrival and huge elephants tusk because |
had sat on it,
we left H. but hope for letters and second stock
OF goods "a small one at UlJ. have been unable |
10 send any thing either; letters had written
IN hopes OF meeting an Arab slave trader, but they |
all sNcdaddled' as soon as they heard that the Eng
lish were coming. | could not get any Information |
i5 20 the route followed by the Portuguese IN going
TO Cazenbe Till we were on the Babisa plateau. It |
was thea pointed out that they had gone to the west
ward OF that winch from the Ioangwa valley seems |
range OF mountains. The makers of maps have |
placed it the Portuguese route) much too FAR east.
Ihe repetition OF names Of rivers, which Is common
in this country, probably msled them. There are |
four Loangwas nowng into Lake Nyazza
Would you kindly say 10 Captain Richards that
had TO draw some rincs and ammunition from her
Malesty's ship wasp and Shall feel obliged II he
with knde5t regards to Lady llarchson, am
ever a'lec'lohate'y Jo@'s' r,,,,, ,,,,,,-,-,o...,
II.-ExrRacrs rroY DEsrArcn or 1tr. cnuRcnrI,
MIR MAi.srf's CONSUL Ar ZANZIBAR, 10 LORD
DIR. Livingstone expected to reach the Tanganyika
by the month OF May last, and will have been ~
UJj in June. AT Ujji he viii have found provisions
Seward. It is little likely that further provisions
sent to him now, reaching UlJi as they probably
WOuiu year after MS expected arrival tnerc, WOulu
be received, particularly as direction OF his
course Is giNel after that place. Bandouky and
his two companions, one OF whom had ac-
companied Captain Burton to the Tanganyika
as one of the ''sons Of Rumjee," were questioned with
reference TO the geography Of the country between
Wcmba tbomba and the coast, and from their de-
scriptlon u would appear that no river OF any mag
nitude had been crossed anywhere. Nor does Dr.
Livingstone mention the existence OF river OF any
size other than the Chambeze or Zambezi and the
Loapua, which do not join the Nyassa. Under such
circumstances "a complete circle having been de-
serlOed round the Nyassa conjointly by Dr. Living
stone and Bandoukys party, the important ques-
dion oil the disconnectiOn of the Nyassa and the
Iaganylka, as Dr. Kirk well observes, appears to be
satisfactorily solved.
The Johanna men deserve punishment for the want
OF tfuth thcy have exhibited In reporting DIR. Living
stones death. l propose addressing H. II. sultan
Abuuah ana Mr. Sunley on the subject as as an
opportunity offers. have &C.,
III. q. w CIfURCIIIII.