The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-12-29
LIVINGSTONE.

Another Letter from The oE SrsPt Ss Exp lore
The Bombay Gazette, of Nov. 20, publishes an
interesting letter from DR.. Livingstone, dated
May 80 last and received at Zanzibar by DIR.
Kirk, Her Majesty's consul, on the I'd OF October
last. 1t is as follows
"UJIJI May 80, 1S69.-My Dear Doctor Kirk:
This note goes by Musa Kamaals, who was
employed by Koarji to drive the buffaloes
hither, but overdriving them unmerclfully in
the sun, and tying them up TO save trouble in
herding, they all died before he got to Unyan-
yembe. He witnessed the plundering of my
goods and got share of them, and have given
him beads and cloth sufficient to buy provisions
for himself on the way back to Zanzibar. He
has done nothing here. He neither went near
the goods here nor tried TO prevent their being
stolen in the way. suppose that pay for four
months in coming, other four of rest, and four
in going back, would be ample, but leave this
to your decision. / could not employ him to
carry my mail back, nor can say anything to
him, for he at once goes to the Ujijans and gives
his own version of all he hears. lie is untruth-
full and iH-conditioned, and would hand OIL the
mail to any one who wished to destroy it. The
people here are like the Kilwa traders, haters
of q the English. Those Zanzibar men whom
met between this and Nyassa were gentlemen,
and traded with honor. Here, as in the haunts
of the Kilwa hordes, shaving is series of forays
and they dread exposure by my letters: No one
will take charge of them. have got Thanh bin
Suellim to take mail privately for transmission
10 Unyanyembe. IL contains a check on Ritchie,
Steuart (S Co. of Bombay for 1000 rupees, and
some 40 letters written during my slow recovery.
| fear it may never reach you. party was sent
to the coast two months ago. One man volun-
teered to take n letter secretly, but his master
warned them all not to do so, because | might
write something he did not like. He went out
with the party and gave orders to the head man to
destroy any letter he might detect on the way.
Thus, though / am good friends outwardly with
them all, can get.no assistance in procuring
carriers, and, as you will see, if the mail comes
to hand / sent to Zanzibar for Is good boatmen
to act as carriers if required, so pieces of meri
trano, 40 pieces of kinitra, ~ farasalas of the
beds called jamsain, shoes, ETC., and have
written to Seyd MaJld, begging Two OF his
guards to see to the safety of the goods here
into Thanh bin Suelim's hands, or into those of
Mohammed bin Sahib.
"As to the work to be done by me, it is only
to connect the sources which have discovered
from 500 to 700 miles south of Speke and
which flows north from latitude 100 south is SO
large, / suspect that have been working at the
sources of the Cango as well as those of the
Nile have to 90 down the eastern line OF
drainage to Bakers farming point. Tauganyila,
Nyige Chowambe (Baker's?) are one water, and
the head of it is 800 miles south of this. The
western and central lines of drainage converge
into an unvisited lake west or southwest OF
this.
'.The outflow of this whether to Cango or Nile,
/ have to ascertain. The people OF this,
called Manyema, are cannibals, if Arabs speak
truly. l may have to go there first, and down
Tanganyika, if / come out uneaten and find my
new squad from Zanzibar | earnestly hope thai
you will do what you can to help me with the
goods and men. -Four hundred pounds to be
sent by Mr. Young, must surely have come tC
you through Fleming IL Co.
II am etc. DAVID LIVINGSTONE.
IA long box paid for to Mill was left ut Uny.
anyembe, and so with other boxes