The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-07-27

Eastern Equatorial Africa-Anothc,
Letter from DE-. Livingstone-The Ma
tives, the slave Trade and the
Geographical Wonders OF the Nile
Sources.
From DR.. Livingstone, at Unyanyembe, thai
now famous halfway station between Lake
Tanganyika and the Indian Ocean coast, we
have another and lengthy and exceedingly in
teresting letter, which we spread before our
readers this morning. We have deemed 1t
sufficiently important to justify its transmits
sion from England through the Atlantic cable.
and we are sure that to our readers Of all
parties, creeds and races it will be welcomed
as an agreeable diversion from the spiteful
controversies and proftless excitements of our
Presidential agitation. After years of trials,
sufferings and grievous disappointments in
strange lands, among savage tribes, cut off
world disabled robbed, abandoned, destitute,
helpless and on the verge of despair. how
fresh, vigorous and buoyant this late broken
down and Responding explorer presents him
self in this philanthropic letter
A timely messenger, and providential, as it
would appear, bringing him news from home,
kindred and friends, and. best of all, supplies
for his immediate wants, and assurances for
the future, has made this surprising trans
formation on this long lost and long negl ected
missionary in the cause of science and of
Christianity. His meeting with Mr.. Stanley
and his surprise party made his heart thrill
with JOY. The weakness, the exhaustion and
the shadows of despair which had weighed him
down have vanished, and, under the inspira-
ton of his new hopes and renewed strength
and confidence, this letter of his sparkles like
champagne, and glows with humanity and
Christian charity The mission undertaken
by DR.. Livingstone in the cause of science. in
which he hos been SO long engaged, was and
is the discovery Of the sources of the Nile;
but his self-appointed work in all his African
explorations has been and is the work of
Christianity. His heart is in this work, and
hence, if he can be instrumental in the
abolition of the horrible Eastern African slave
trade he will esteem it greater glory than
that Of the discovery Of oil the sources Of the
Nile.
The suppression of this diabolical East Afri-
can slave trade, as the Christian missionary,
DR.. Livingstone, makes, therefore, the special
theme of this letter. Looking to the United
States, relieved Of this pernicious ''relic of
barbarism," African slavery, and rejoicing at
length under constitution of universal liberty
and equal rights, he appeals to us for help
ing hand in this greater enterprise than the
solution of oil the geographical mysteries of
Africa. Nor is there anything wanting in the
terrible facts which he recites to make this
savage slave trade Of Eastern Africa subject
for the direct Intervention of England. From
ten to twenty thousand per annum of these
poor Africans Of the Upper Nile basin are
captured, carried off and sold into
slavery, and under cruelties surpass-
ing the horrors of 'the Middle Passage"
between the coast of Guinea and the
island Of Cuba Thus, while the island Of
Cuba remains as the market for the slave
traders from the West coast Of Equatorial
Africa, the island of Zanzibar continues the
great depot for this detestable traffic on the
rectly, in connection with this Eastern traffic,
England, to some extent, is responsible; and
with these shocking exposures from DR.. ~Liv-
ingstone she cannot blink the question longer.
Considered next, simply in the Light of trade,
it is evident, from the testimony of Livings-
tone, that England might turn the policy of
active Intervention for the suppression of this
slave traffic to profitable account. This in
tervention, of course, to be effective, would
require Reconstruction" of the Sultan Of
Zanzibar; but is he not with his estates, as
being outside the pale Of civilization, subject,
under the law of nations, to seizure and ap-
preparation by any power within the code?
But important as to Christianity is this
dreadful evil of the East African slave
trade, in the new lights presented
by Livingstone and attractive as he
makes those free born and naturally in
offensive people of the eastern tablelands Of
Africa, who are torn away by violence from
their homes to be sold as slaves, we cannot
resist the temptation Of dropping these sub
jects for the present In order briefly again
to consider the interesting researches and
discoveries of DR.. Livingstone Of the Nile
sources and their drainage II was thought
by Spoke and Grant, in their discovery of one
of the great equatorial lakes. Nyanza, which
they named, in honor Of the Queen Of Eng
Land, Victoria Nyanza, that they had found
the head Of the Nile because they went round
the south end of this lake and found that II
was indeed the great fountainhead Of the
river on that side. But when Sir Samuel
Baker discovered the other Lake Nyanza to the
westward, which he named the Albert Nyanza,
in honor Of the lamented Prince Consort he
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