The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1870-01-13
DIR. LIVINGSTONE.
Further Intelligence ~ the African
Explorer.

/ The following interesting letter from
DR.. Livingstone. dated the Goth OF May
last, and received at Zansibar BY Dr;
Kirk, Her Majestys Consul, on the I'd
Of October last, was communicated to the
Bombay papers by the Government.
DR.. Kirk, in forwarding it, wrote as foi-
lows:
from John Kirk, ESD, the political
agent and hsr Majesty's Consul, Zanzibar
to G. Come, ESQ.,, Secretary to Govern
ment, Bombay.
Dated ZANZIRAR, Oct. I'd 1869.
Sir-I have the honor to enclose here
with, fer the information to the Right
Honorable Governor in Council, the copy
of lettor from DIR. Livingstone. dated
the SOth Of May, 1869, and received at
Zanzibar this day. The requests made
| by DR.. Livingstone in previous COM
| munication that reached here on the 7th
ult, having been complied with, l shall
loose no time in supplying the things
| therein demanded. there will however,
be some difficulty in getting faithful men
as the Arabs of Unyanyembe being OF
the Ell Haothi tribe, are by no means
| loyal subjects of Seyd Laid, and, as Or.
Livingstone tells US, still engaged IN the
slave trade.
l have, &C., JOHN KIRK
DR. LIVING ,ToNE's LETTER.
UJIJI, May 80, 1869.
M Dear DR.. Kirk This note goes
by Mnsa Kamaal, who was employed by
Koarji 10 drive the buffaloes hither but,
by over driving them unmerclfuliy IN
| tha sun and tyino them up to save
| trouble in hearding, they all died before
he got to Unyanyembe. He witnessed
the plundering of my goods and got
share of them, and l have given him
beads and cloth sufficient to buy provlS'
ions for himself on the way back to Ian
zibar. He has dons nothing here. lie
neither went near the goods here>,or
tried to prevent their being stolen On the
way. / suppose that pay for four
months. other four of rest, and four in
coming back, would be ample, but
leave this to your decision, could no,
employ him to carry my mail bag, mol
| can say anything to him, for he at once
goes to Ujijians and gives his own yer
sion of all he hears. lie is untruthfu1
and ill-conditioned, and would hand of
the mail to any one who wished to de.
stroy it. The people here are like the
Kilwa traders-haters Of the English.
Those Zanzibar men whom 1 met be
tween this and Nyassa were gentlemen
and traded with honor. Here, as in the
haunts of the Kilwa hordes, Shaving is
a series of forays, and they dred expos
ures by my letters. No one will take
charge of them. l have got Thanh bin
Suellim to take mail privately for trans.
mission to Unyanyembe. 1t contains q
check on Richie, ,Steuart & Co., of Bonn.
bay, for Rs. 1900 and some forty letters
written during my slow recovery. l fear
it may never reach you. A party was sent
to the coast two months ago. One man
volunteered to take letter secretly, but
his master warned them all not to do 80,
because might write something he did
not like. He went out with the party
and gave orders to the head man to de-
stroy any letter he might detect on the
way. Thus, though l am good friends
outwardly with them all. l can get no
assistance in procuring carriers, as you
will see. if the mail comes to hand, !
sent to Zanzibar for fifteen good boat
men to act as carriers it required eighty
pieces of meritrano forty pieces of kimi-
ira, twelve farasalas of the beads called
jamsain, shoes. &C., and | have written
to Seyd Maid, begging two of his guards
to see to the safety Of the goods here in
to Thanh bin Suellim's hands, or into
those of Mohamme6 bin Sahib.
q. AS to the work to be done by ne, it is
only to connect the sources which have
discovered from 500 to 700 miles south
of Speke and Bakers with their Nile.
The volume of water which flows north
from latitude 1902 degrees south is so
large, suspect have been working at
the sources OF the Congo as well a. those
of the Nile. have to 60 down the
eastern lines of drainage to Bakers turn
ing point. Tanganyika Nyigo Chowam-
be Baker )are one water, and the head
of it is 300 miles south of this. The
western snd central lines of drainage
converge into ar unvisited lake west or
southwest of this. The outflow of this,
whether to Congo or Nile, / have to as
certain. The people of this, called Man
yeina, are canibals, if Arabs speak truly.
l may have to go there first, and down
Tanganyika. if come out uneaten, aud
find my new squad from Zanzibar. l
earnestly hope that you will do what you
can to help me with the goods and men;
e4OO to be sent by Mr.. Young must
surely have come to you through Flem-
IN & Co., L am &C.,
DAVID LIVINGSTONE,
A long box paid for to Nijijl was left
at Unyanyembe. and so with other box
es.