The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1871-06-03
Or. LIVINGSTONE
HEEE AND HOW lie Is-PRoBABILITIEs
OF HIS EARLY RETURN HOME.

At the meeting Of the Royal Geograph-
lcal Society Of London, on the night Of The
Eth inst Sir Henry Rawlinson who occu-
ped the chair, said the members would
have learned from the letter Of Sir Roder
lck Murchison, which had appeared that
morning, that information had been receiv-
ci regarding DIR. Livingstone; and though
the letter contained no detailed geograph-
iraI Information, it was so far satisfactory
t.It il certified TO the safety Of the great
tralrler, and enabled them put their finger
ZIP The spot where he was at given date
Tic letters lie was about to read were com
municated BY the Foreign Office to Sir
E.drrck, who was delighted to find that
pr Livingstone was, as be had always con
tended safe and sound only five months
ago. Cheers. Sir Henry Rawlnson
THEN read a letter from Lord Enfield,
transmitting, by the request Of Lord Gran
v.Ir, a letter from DR. Kirk, the British
Consul at Zanzibar. The really important
letter however, was one from the Arab
otHecr who was sent up By DR.. Kirk from
Zanzibar to lWi in September last In
October that officer received a letter from
hr Livingstone, as be mentions in the let
tar NJ which the following is translation
! have TO inform you that on the 10th of
Nbaban November TO- a messenger came
from tbe people Of Menama With letters
from the Arabs who are there, and one
from the Doctor, and those letters dated
-9,h Regb October 50 In answer 10
my inquiries they told me that the Doctor
was well, for the present at the town of
Nanaho>o, with the Mabomet Iben Ghirb,
waiting for the caravans, being helpless.
without means, and few followers, only
eight men, 50 that he cannot move else
where or come down. We have sent of
twelve men with American cloth, kaniki,
beads, sugar, coffee, salt, two pairs, Of
shoes, shot, powder soap, and a small bot
te of medicine (quinlue.) All that he
was in want Of we have sent to him, and
remain at jJi (on the lake, awaiting bis
orirrs-2Oth Shaban U5th November, }
$50.
That letter was Of considerable interest
m various accounts, for il stated that let
tyr bad been received from the Doctor,
who at that time was only twenty-five days
journey from Cjji, and it further showed
mat Ahmed Shereef was SO interested and
-..Ne 10 the matter that, though be had
'0 = received re io,.e- 81 tie 10th e
November, befo he 18th be had di.-
-aicleI t'siVe iaeH witA supplies
'- ee-ouI letter was from an iadepep-
dent source, namely, an Arab merchant.
wto Frites thns e BIZ correspondent at
Zanzibar
rn. .-srIT0N.
r. Ludda Danji, from San bin Maid
after compliments This letter is from
'JJt, and the news here is good and moth
.nT here bnt good to report. Letters have
come from the people Of Menama, from
Mohammed Bin Ghirb and his people, and
they have got good prices, such as please
them and the Christian is in their com
pany, and they intend returning to Uiii
n tbs month Of Safr, april. lS7l.) She
reef reached CjJi, having with him the
goods Of the Christian, and we intend send
in5 some of these goods to him, for he is
destitute, and the people of the Shereef will
accompany the messengers who take the
letters.
That letter had probably been dispatched
Day or two before Shereef Ahmed's letter.
a. It i stated the supplies were about to be
" Il l.
tie 10Th Of November The remarkable
expression about the caravan with
which Or. Livingston intended re
turning to I'LL in April of the
present year showed that their arrangement.
were to remain five months longer at Man
ako~a, and then come on quietly to the
coast. 1t did not, however, follow that DR.
Livingst ne would wait FIVE months need
Ie~sIy At CjJi The supplies sent woulc
reach him about December 18th, 50 that j
he wished to return at once he could leave
NanakCsa by the end of the month. b.
the end Of the next month he could reaCt
JJJ, and if he came on at once be nigh
reach the coast in three months more, sc
that at the present moment he might, by
using the utmost expedition, have reached
TIE coast S.r Henry Rawlnson, however
suggested the probability that Livingstone
who was quite at home in the wilds Of AZ
nca, t he had not solved the problem D
whether tie watershed Of the country
drained into the Congo or into the Alber
Nyanza, might, when he received his sup
pies, prosecute the necessary geographical
researches before returning, in which cas-,
it might be another year before be rc
turned