Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-11-21
DIR. LIvINGsToNE.
His Safety acknowledgement Dis
covery of the Sources of the Nile.

MS SnEety ASStaret&--AEep0rted Dis
cevery of the Sources of the Nile.
Correspondence of the New York Herald.
BOMBAY, Oct. 9.-The news to the eff
feet that DR.. Livingstone had arrived at
Ujiji, town in the Unyamwezi's terrific
ries, only some 800 miles from the Zanzi-
bar coast, has been followed by further
letter from DR.. Kirk, the British political
agent at Zanzibar, containing additional
and yet more interesting items Since
the dispatch of Dr. Kinks hurried letter
of the goth of August, he has conyersed
at length with the Arab traders, who
brought the verbal request for some
brandy TO be forwarded to Ujiji, and has
also received short letter from the in
trepid explorer himself. This letter is
dated July 8, 1868, from near Lake Bang
weloo, but only reached Zanzibar the 7th
of September last DIR. Kirk states that
it is very brief, and he has only transmit
ted an extract of few lines from it. But
this extract, as viii be seen, contains the
most important information 1t reads as
follows:
81 may say that have found what I
believe to be the source of the Nile, be-
tween ten and twelve degrees south, or
nearly the position assigned to them by
Ptolemy.
DIR. Kirk further writes that ''Dr. LiY-
ingstone appears to have discovered
number of lakes of considerable size.
They are about 10 days march in length,
and like the Nysssa, Tanganyika, and the
Albert Nyanza, are overhung by high
mountain slopes, which open out into
bays and valleys and gullies." DR.. Liv-
ingstone, however, has not sent on any
details of these discoveries, and the latter
facts have been gathered by interrogating
the Arab traders.
All the Swans of Bombay have natu-
rally been employed, since the receipt of
the first letter, In eager speculation as to
the probable course which has been tray-
eled by the great traveller All the con-
lectures hitherto made by Sir r. Muir
Gibson and the geographical societies are
now known to be wrong, and as there IS
no accurate map in existence, even of the
country near the Zanzibar coast which
has already been travelled over by white
men, the basis upon which the latest the
cries of ''the route, p" etc, are formed, IS
extremely narrow-in fact, not one has
yet been brought forward which adjusts
itself easily to the few facts of Dr. Liv-
ingstone's last and greatest journey, which
are already in our possession. We must
patiently wait little longer, until the ar
rival of the actor himself shall clear up
all our doubts
1t is certain, however, that this last
Tourney of exploration" will be richer
in the "fruits of discovery" than either
of the other expeditions DR.. Living
stone has not probably heard of Spoke
and Grants so-called discovery of the
sources of the Nile, and it will be noticed
that the lakes which he himself sup
poses to be the true sources are some
300 or 400 miles further south than the
Albert and Victoria Nyanza lakes. 1t
will probably be now shown that all these
vast interior lakes, like the great north
ern lakes of the United States, commune
cate with each other and form a con-
nected chain. 1t is only natural also to
suppose that the country in the vicinity of
these new lakes discovered by DR.. Liv-
ingstOne will be found to be as fertile and
well adapted for European colonization
as that around the lakes of Spoke and
Grant. A flood of light will soon be shed
upon the possibilities" of this wonder
full land, which not very many years ago
was generally believed to be a barren
| desert. Who can say that even the pres
ent generation will not see it develop into
civilized AnglO-Saxon community, with
grand future of unlimited freedom and
abundant material prosperity
The dangers of the doctors journey are
now comparatively over. Ujiji is only
300 miles from the coast, and road fire.
quented by regular caravans, and at pres
ent, luckily, also quite safe, exists between
it and the sea. The territories through
which the doctor has now to pass are
under the rule of friendly power, and it
is not improbable that he viii accompany
the caravan which was to set out a month
after the departure of the last Commu-
nicatiOns between Europe and Zanzibar is
somewhat irregular, and it is uncertain
whether the doctor will have to come to
| Bombay or whether he will have an Op-
portunity of proceeding direct to Alden.
But this is simply matter of q few
weeks; in q couple of months at the
| farthest the great traveller will be again
among his own people, and on some beaten
track of communication with the civilized
world.