Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1869-12-01
LiyingstOne'S Safety and Discoveries
Reported in India.
RoHnAY. Oct. Q. 1859.

DOABA1, OCL. y, 1cOo.
The news to the effect that DR.. Liv-
ingstone had arrived at Ujiji, a town in
the UnyamweZis territories, only some
300 miles from the Zanzibar coast. has
been followed by a further letter from
DIR. Kirk, the British political agent at
zanzibar. containing additional and vet
more interesting items. Since the de-
snatch of DIR. Kinks hurried letter Of the
30th of August he has conyersed al length
with the Arab traders, who brought the
verbal request for some brandy 70 be
forwarded to Ujiji, and has also received
a short letter from the intrepid explorer
himself This letter is dated Sth July,
1865, from near Lake BangwelOo, but
only reached Zanzibar the 18th Septem-
Der last. DIR. Kirk states that it is very
brief and he has only transmitted an
extract of few lines from it. But this
extract, as will be seen, contains the
most important information. 1t reads
as follows:-
may say that 1 have found what believe
to be the sources OF the Nile, between ten
and twelve degrees south, or nearly the
position assigned to them by PtOlemy.
DIR. Kirk further writes that CDR. Liv-
ingston appears TO have discovered a
number of lakes of considerable size"
They are about ten days march in length
and like the Nyassa, Tanganyika and
the Albert Nyanza, are Oyerhung by
high mountain slopes, which open out
into BAYS and valleys and gullies. DIR.
Livingston, however, has not sent on
any details of these discoveries, and the
latter facts have been gathered by in
terrogating the Arab traders.
1t will probably be now shown that all
these vast interior lakes, like the great
northern lakes of the United States,
communicate with each other and form
a connected chain. 1t is only natural
also to suppose that the country in the
vicinity of these new lakes discovered
by DIR. Livingstone will be found 10 be
as fertile and as well adapted for Euro
pean colonization as that round the lakes
of Speke and Grant. A flood of light
will soon be shed upon the ''possibili-
ties of this wonderful land, which not
very many years ago was generally De-
lieved to be barren desert. Who can
say that even the present generation will
not see it develop into civilized Anglo
Saxon community, with a grand future
of unlimited freedom and abundant ma
terial prosperity?
The dangers of the Doctors journey
are now comparatively over. Uiiji is
I only some 800 miles.from the coast, and
road, frequented by regular caravans
and at present, luckily, also quite safe,
exists between il and the sea The ter
ritories through which the Doctor has
now TO pass are under the rule of a
! friendly power, and it is not improbable
I that he will accompany the carvan which
was to set out q month after the depart
ure of the last. Communication between
Europe and Zanzibar is somewhat irreg-
ular, and it is uncertain whether the
| Doctor will have to come TO Bombay or
whether he will have an opportunity OF
| proceeding direct to Alden. But this is
! simply 4 matter of few weeks; in a
couple of months at the furthest the
great traveller will be again among his
own people, and on some beaten track OF
| communication with the civilized world.