Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-02-23
Letter from Or. Livingstone.

4a4 LJtttF EfNtfttAs 1 nave Ubt AielN al
opportunity of sending to the coast
since left till now, and this is by
party of Arab slave-traders from Bag
amOrO, near Zanzibar. They cannot
give me time to write, IS they have
spent all their goods and are now
eager to be of, and are hungry. !
cannot send anything to Mr.. Mann,
but l must say that l feel extremely
thankful to him for all the trouble and
work be has spent on my positions. 1
have read all of bis long letters twice
or three times over, and viii answer
1t all and be ready Tor the post at Tan
ganyika. I have not taken my iati-
tude even, but reckon that am about
10 degrees 10 minutes south, and 81
degrees 80 minutes east. We are
probably $500 1eet above the sea; but
i guess that from the barometer,
which stood at 5000 inches at the sea
5evel now showing $3.50 inches. By
the way, | use Prof. BurgeHs' table Tor
both barometer and boiling point, but l
am not sure as to a mUliplicT for the
difference OF latitude and temperature
other than 32 degrees. | have no 9th
er iOgaFithms with me. / have come
a long way about; could not go
around the north side Of the lake
fNvassa}, partly for want of TODD,
f,sTtlv from fear thai my Johanna
men would bolt at the first sight OF
danger; and they did ssodaddle, after
all. at the south end, upon the mere
report of danger in front from the Ma
Fitu. Their eyes actually stood out
with fear as those Of an OK sometimes
do. ] was then left With 8 following
Of only nine Africans. The Johanna
fellows were such inveteTate thieves,
Constantly stealing from their loads
aCd from the gardens OF the people,
that ii was : relief to get rid OF them.
1 wouId have crossed At the middle OF
the lake. but the Arabs avoided me
as i'll had had the piSgue. no sooner
did they hear that the English were
coming than of they scampered
through brush and brake across path
sezs forests, ''Deil take the hindmOst." b"
seven shaving parties did So and the
owners Of two elbows, now on the
lake, kept them. well cut Of the
way lest ! should burn them as slay-
ers. The English name was for the first
time an Inconvenience. Ina ARABS
see the advantage Of vessels on the
lake for promoting that which a Nes-
sci alone would check. The highlands
OF NIagomerO extend up parallel with
the lake to an unknown distance. Inc
water sEsd IS almost fifty miles east OF
the lake. sad there We counted fifteen
running burns IL one days march
the sources Of the ROyum2. Here the
same process OF depOpUiaUi0n goes on.
II IS in the hands of the half-caste
Arabs. Il Is Agawa against MangQa-
"a. or. as shey are called, V dly2n
sgainst VVanvane. 1t was on this nigh
and cool country that poor Bishop
Mackenzie hoped 10 have MS mission
in time. Al the town OF Mat21a, Op-
pOsite the middle Of the lake, ana EfSg
miles. east Of ii, we saw 4 great many
pacthes Of English peas IN IllI bearing
and blossom, IN July. The people
UnGS-stand the season TO plant them IN,
and wheat would undoubtedly Hour
ish if irrigated By one OF the numer-
Gus springs which run among the
a'ills. 1t is. land OF plenty.
But instead Of the three weeks easy
canoe sail up the ZambeZi and Shire,
rht. Other route took three and a half
months weary treadmiu trudging. j
had, however, 6u intOierable drag IN
the SepOys, and sent them ali back
from Matakasi. / heard atJerWard
that seven Of them remained . let
their pay run GA. teel (
more and more that AtriCa must be
civilized from within. No people I
can be more h0ples,ly bigo.ed than (
the cUast shaving tribes. Alat&ka Is q {
%NSiter subject than any to be found /.
y, thin 2lJ miles CT the coast. Here /
folios-s a description Ct gang OF /
slaves Ia met Ne yisiteT the three .
most impoltaut Agaw8 or BanSa1 .
chiefs. near The south end OF the lake, ]
and then went to hatOsa or kreeLn2- (
susas, an Old friend, sEn0 thought that I
plying Us with huge 2ssEaE5 OF beer (
aEas the proper way OI SQgWt1g re- I
sDect. We wanted 10 70 Up 70 Kirk q .
Range. and avoid the 4lazaJU, bu5 the 4
people below were afraid % those I
above. because they had driven (
back q Parry OF shaving Arabs.
K4t0sa st last turned UuJ with .
his wives 10 carry Our extra loads, .
rather than see his Old friend at q .
and the fat ladies soon .
The young GaGQie5 with theif /.
sharp tongues. Kinks Range Is just .
the edge OF q plateau, nigh and cOlds
and densely peOPled by Alanganyla Ia
their primitive state. They 90 py
I, 9erent names, as Aanthunda-thOse
who live on mountains Jutting oat Of
the DiatSau, ChipeCa-JhOS0 VINO live
more on thc plains, but pure MangaE-
via. spinning SBaze and working iron.
Ii Is TOO cold, apparently, Tor cotton.
Their hut5 are psastered inside and
out-even the rOOj5-tO defend them
selves against the cold. One village
was scarcely over q mile from another,
They were extremely hOsplLaDie. 1
yave 2 cloth 10 the headmsn % the
village where we spent the night, and
be Immediately gave rs all bOuniI-
fuI Supper and breakfast peXt morn
inc. They had never
shaved. and I spent q good deal Of
time in trying 10 warn them against I
commencing il. We went westward
Ill we imagined we were beyond the
Longitude OF the MaZetu, and then
turned to the north, making for the
point we left of at in 1868.
We came at length to parts where
IA qzeta had piUadered the year before,
sna once nearly walked into the hands
of a party of them cut Plundering.
We bad killed a haTteSesste, and
sxere s0yDrised to see tao parties OF
villagers 9az5 Us at a trot. They had
scared FROM lac villages % which we
were bound. add the Mazetu were ac-
'ualIv there. We turaed westward
AGAIN. but never came Qeaf the POrtu-
y1ese route 10 C2zembe. The nap
S1akers have placed it too far east.
We crossed the LeaBgWa In l2:4j, and
4bout thirty miles west Of homber-
ame: then the great LeangEra valley
the bed Of an ancient lake; then
mounted the Babira plateau in the /
southern borders Of ii degrees south.
The watershed betWeen Cham beze
the Zambesi II is here called, end Le-
4ugwa rises to 6000 feet. Crossing the
Ghambeze in latitude 10 degrees "a
minutes. We found IL in food with
clear water, but the line Of trees which
,howed its actual 5anks were only
-ortv wards apart; and came here on
.he last day Of January, 1857. II am
not much mistaken, we are on the
We are in search Of. Lua-
pula Is in front. but hope to tel you
better about il when we reach Tan
yanyika in May next. The Barbera
oountry is depopulated by their own
Most Of the central parts of
fhe country are covered with forest.
3ohiss we passed through when 1t
was dripping wet, for this Is the rainy I
season. and more water iall5 than
ever saw ia Alrfea. The few people
hsd no food 10 sell. no animals could