The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1869-12-24

nr headman prevented my seeing NOR
ig of it, and another, than their mouths
W The lake is not large, from eightee
;, to twenty miles broad, and from thin
,. ty-fve to forty long it goes o.
II northwest in a river-like prolonga
ton two miles wide, it is said, t
Tanganyika- I would have set i
down as an arm of that lake, but tha
its surface is $500 feet above the lev
Ell of the sea, while Speke makes i
1874 feet only. l tried to follow tn
river-like portion, but was prevented
by war which had broken out be.
tween the chief of Itawa and a party
of ivory traders of Zanzibar. l theu
set off to go one hundred and fifty
miles south, then west till past the
disturbed district, and explore the
west of TAnganyika but on going
eighty miles found the Arab party,
showed them letter from the Sultan
! of Zanzibar, which l owe to the kind
officer of His Excelleney, Sir Bartle
Frere, Governor Of Bombay, and was
at once supplied with provisions,
cloth and beads They showed the
greatest kindness and anxiety for my
safety and success. The heads of the
party readily perceived that a eontin-
uance of hostilities meant shutting
up the ivory market; but the peace
making was a tedious process, re-
quiring three and a-half months. I
was glad to see the mode of ivory and
slave-trading of these men-it formed
such contrast to that of the ruffians
of Kilwa, and to the ways of the afro,
cious Portuguese from Letts, who
were eonnived at in their murders BY
the Governors of d'Almeida.
AN AFRICAN NUNDATIoN-OBsTA-
Giles OVERCOME BY THE EXPLORER.
In the latter part of 1867, DR..
Livingstone started north from the
Lake MOerO for Ujiji, where he had
goods, and where be hoped to receive
letters from home, not having heard
a word from the world for more than
two years" He says:
/ "But when got within thirteen
days of Tangauyiks, 1 was brought to
a stand-still by the superabundance
of water in the country in front. A
native party came through, and de-
scribed the country as inundated so
as often to be waist deep, with sleep
ing places difficult to find. The food
lasts till May or June. At last 1 be-
came so tired Of inactivity that 1
doubled back on my course to
Cazembe. To give an idea of the
inundation which, in a small way,
enacts the part Of the Nile lower down,
1 had to cross two rivulets which flow
into the north end Of the Muero one
was thirty and the other forty yards
broad, crossed by bridges one had a
quarter, the other half mile of food
on each side. Moreover, one, the
Luo, had covered a plain abreast of
Moero so that the water on a great
psrtreached from the knees to the up
per part of the chest. The plain was
OF black mud with grass higher than
our heads. We had to follow the
path which IN places the feet of pas
sengers had worn into deep ruts. In
to these We every now and then
plunged and fell, over the ankles in
soft mud, while hundreds of bubbles
rushed up, and, bursting, emitted a
frightful odor. We had four hours
of this wading and -pluuging. The
last mile was the worst, and right
glad we were to get out of it and
bathe in the clear tepid waters and
sandy beach at Moero. X <
= < The state of the rivers and
country made me 60 in the very light
est marching order; took nothing but
the most necessary instruments, and
no paper except a couple of note
books and the Bible. On unexpeet-
sdly finding a party going to the
coast, l borrowed piece of paper
from an Arab, and the defects una
voidable in the circumstances you
will kindly excuse. Only one of my
attendants would come here the
others, on various pretenses, abscond-
ed. The fact is, they are all tired cf
this everlasting tramping. and so YER
lily am l. Were it not for an invete-
rate dislike to give in to difficulties,
without doing my utmost to overcome
them l would abscond too. l comfort
myself by the hope that by making
the country and people better known
1 am doing good; and, by imparting
a little knowledge occasionally, l may
be working in accordance with the
plans of an all-embracing Providence.
l am never deprived of the belief of
all the more intelligent of our race,
that my efforts may be appreciated in
the good time coming yet. >"
In such simple and noble language
does the illustrious explorer reveal
the secret motives of the ambition
which leads him to expose his life in
behalf of science and the welfare of
mankind. It is not at all surprising
that this passage and other eloquent
passages in his report were greeted
with applause at the meeting Of the
Royal Geographical Society.
"ALWAYs SOMETHING NEW FROM
AFRICA"
DIR. Livingstone closes his report
with some caustic complaints Of GER
tain persons at the Observatory at
the Cape of Good Hope, who have
fallen into ridiculous blunders by
tampering with his mathematical OBJ
servations.
But this characteristic postscript
covers the once interesting inROrma-
tion:
P. .S.-Always something new from
Africa large tribe lives in under
ground houses in Rus. Some exca-
vations are said to be thirty miles
long, and have running rills in them
- whole district can stand a siege
in them; the writings" therein, |
have been told By some of the peo-
pie, are on wisgs of animals, and not
letters. OF course l should have
gone to see them. They are said to
be very dark, well made.