Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-01-05
THE AFRICAN EXPLORER.
Interesting Letter from DR.. Living
stOne-His Work Nearly Conn

Interesting Letter from Dr.. Living
stOne-ais Work Nearly Conn
pIeted.
The Bombay Gazette, Of Nov 90, pub
fishes an interesting letter from DR.. Liv-
ingstonc, dated May so last, and received
at Zanzibar by DIR. Kirk, Her Majesty
Consul, on the ID October last:
UHJI, May 80, 16GO.-My Dear Doctor
Kirk: This note goes by Musa Kamaals,
who was employed by Koarji 70 drive the
buffalocs hither, but, by overdriving them
numerically in the sun and tying them up
to save trouble IN hCrdinE, they all died
before he got 10 Unyanycmbe He wit
messed the plundeTing OF my goods and
got a share of them, and / have given
him beads and cloth sufficient to purchase
provisions for himself on the way back TO
Zanzibar. He has done nothing here. He
neither went near the goods here nor tried
10 prevent their being stolen in the way.
I suppose that nay for four months in
coming, other four of rest, and four III
going back would he ample, but | leave
This to vour decision. | could not en-
ploy him TO carry my mail back, nor can
I say anything 10 him, for he at once goes
10 the Uiijan-, and gives his own version
of all he hear. He is untruthful and i'll
conditioned. and would hand off the mail
10 any one who wished 10 destroy IT,
The people here are like the Kilwa ira
ders, hatcrs of the English. Those Zanzi-
bar men whom ! met between this and
Nyassa were -cntlymcn, and traded with
honor. Hcrc, as in the haunls of the
Kilwa hordcs, Shaving is ascries Of fOTays,
and they dread exposure by my letters
No one will take charge Of them. have
got Than bin Suellim to take q mail pri-
vately for transmission TO UnyanembC.
Il contains check on Ritchic, StCUart &
Co., of Bombay, for 2,GG0 rupees, and
some forty letters written during NV slow
recovery. fear it may never reach you
4 party was sent 20 the coast two months
ago. One man volunteered 10 take let
ter secretly, Tut his master warned them
all not 20 DO so, because ! might write
something d. did not like. lie went out
with the party, and gave orders TO the
hcadman 10 destroy any letter he might
detect on the way. Thus, though l am
good friend- outwardly with them all,
can get no a. stance in procuring carriers,
and, as you viii see, if the mail comes to
hand, | sent 10 Zanzibar for fifteen good
bOatmcn to oct as carriers, if required,
eighty pieces of meTitranO, forty pieces Of
kinitra, twelve faTasalas of the beds
called Jamsain, shoes, etc, and / have
written TO Seyd Maid, begging two of his
guards to see to the safety of the goods
here into Thanh bin Suellim's hands, or
into these Of Mohammed bin Sahib.
As to the work to be done by me it is
oaIv 10 connect the sources which | have
discovered from 500 to zoe miles south of
Spekc and Bakers with their Nile The
volume of water which flows north from
latitude l. south is so large, l suspect
that have been working at the sources
Of the Congo as well as of those of the
Nile. ! have 10 60 down the eastern line
Of drainage to Bakers turning point
Tanganyika Nyige Chowambe (BakeT's)
are one water, and the head OF it Is 500
miles south of this. The western and
central line If drainage converge into an
unvisitcG lake west or southwest of this.
The outflow OF this, whether TO Congo OF
Nile, ! have 90 ascertain. The people of
this, called ManyCma, are Cannlbai5, II
Aarabs speak truly. I may have TO 60
there FIST, and down Tanganyika, if !
come on, mcatcn, and find my new squad
from Zanzibar. ! earnestly hope thatyOu
viii do what YOU can 20 help me with the
goods and men. -Four hundred pounds
to be sent by Mr.. Young must surely have
come to yuH through Fleming 4 Co.
am, etc, DAVID LIVINGSTONE