Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-01-12

:. Inc Bombay Gazette of Nov. 20 pub
nshes an interesting letter from DR.. Liv-
lngstone, dated May 80 last, and received
at Aanzibar by DR.. Kirk. Her Maiestv's
consul. on the I'd of October last. 1t is as
follows:
s., ''UyIJr May 80. 1869.
MY DEAR DOCTOR KIRK: This note goes
by Musa Kamaals, who was employed bv
hoafll to drive the buffaloes hither, but, by
oEeIdrlYlnS them unmercifuliy in the sun and
tylng them up to save trouble in herding.
Tney all died before he got to Unyanyembie.
ne Witnessed the plnndering OF my goods
ana got share of them and have given
MIN beads and cloth sufficient to buy pfovis-
IONS Tg Tor hlmsef in the way back to Zanzibar.
ne mas done nothing here. He neither went
near near the goods here nor tried to prevent
thelf being stolen in the way. l suppose
tha1 tsha1 pay for four months is coming, other
iouf OF rest, and four in going back would
pe ample, but leave this to your decision.
could not employ him to carry
my mali back, nor can say anything to him
Tor he at once goes to the Ujiiians and gives
MS own version Of all he sees and hears He
Is IS u1tr1thful m u and lll-conditioned, and would
nand OFT the mail to any one who wished to
destroy it. The people here are like the XII
wa traders, hatora Of tie English Those
Zanzibar men whom 1 met betwet this and
Nyassa were gentlemen, and traded homo, ably
Here, as III the haunts Of the KiIva hOTdss
exposure by my letters. No one will take
charge OF them. [ have got Thanh bin Suel.
nm to take mail privately for transmission
to Onyanyembe. 1t contains q check on
Rltohle, Stuart Il Co., Of Bombay, for @ 600
rupees, and some forty letters written dur,
ing my slow recovery. [ fear it NAV
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 go, because l
might write something he did not like He.
Went QUO EgIth the very 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
getno 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, Ii required, 80 pieces of rnefitra-
no, 4O pieces of kinitra, II farasales of the
Deds called Iamsain, shoes, &c, and | have
written to Seyd Maid, begging two of his
guards to see to the safety of the goods here
III Ihani bin Suellim's hands, or into those
OF Mohammed bin Sahip
"As to the work to be done bv me- it. 10 onIv
to connect the sources which I have discov-
cred from 500 to 700 miles sou il Of Speke
and Bakers with their Nile The volume OF.
water which flows north from latitude 120
south ls so large, [ suspect that l have been
worklng at the sources Of the Congo as we'll
as those of the Nile | have to go down the
eastern line of drainage to Bakers turning
point. Tanganyika, Nyige Chowsmbe
Bakers , 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 Congo or Nils I
have to ascertain. The people OF this called
Manyema are cannibals, if Arabs speak truly.
may have to go there first, and down Tan
ganyika, if come out uneaten, and find my
new squad from Zanzibar. [ earnestly hope
that you viii 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 to you through Fleming Co.
am, &c., DAVID LIVINGSTONE.
ga long box paid for to Mill was left at
Unyanyembe, and so with other boxes"