Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-07-16
MORCESTER
STANLEY nnd Livingstone.


was on his way TO the coast, having left DIR.
Livingstone about that time at Unyanyembe.
The story of Stanley's journey and his meeting
with Livingstone at Ujij has been already told
in previous dispatch. The present one gives a
summary of DR.. Liviugstone's hardships, adven-
lures and discoveries, and his plans for future
explorations. The veteran African explorer left
Zanzibar in March, 1866, with thirty men, and
beasts of burden, including camels, buffaloes,
mules and doukeys. Twelve of his men
were Sepoys from India, and these
soon became disaffected and mutinous, and
so abused the animals that in short time not
one was left alive. He discharged these men
and sent them back TO the coast In August of
the same year an Arab named Musa and nine
johanna men" deserted him. These were the
men, who, to excuse their desertion, invented the
story that the traveller had been murdered. He
employed other men, natives of the country,
who served him better, but assertions from
among them were not infrequent, and in this
way he lost much of his clothing cooking
utensils, and other baggage. In some places
wars among the native tribes had swept the
country clean of provisions, and there the ex-
ptQtIlOU SuU6Itu IDuCu lEDID hunger.
From the beginning of the year 1867 to March,
1869, the explorer was occupied in correcting
the false impressions which he had received
from the reports of Portuguese travellers. These
people, who had occasionally penetrated the
country as far as the territory of King Cazembe,
reported the Chambezi, a river of considerable
size which the doctor found there TO be the head
waters of the Zambezi, large river which
flows into the Indian ocean through the Portu-
guese province of Mozambique. His re-
lance upon their stories misled him,
and caused him no end of trouble
before he could convince himself OF the truth
that the Chambez was a different stream and in
fact the headwaters of the Nile. He thus places
the source of that famous river as TAR south as
the eleventh degree of south latitude and gives
it length of not less than 2600 miles direct
latitude. Besides this discovery he found that
the lake Tanganyika is seventy-three miles
longer than Burton and Spoke described it and
Of a different form, its entire length being about
1928 geographical miles and the shape of its
southern extremity somewhat resembling that
of the southern part Of the Italian peninsula.
The Chambezi river he found to be the princi-
pal feeder of great lake, equal in area to Tan
ganyika, which is called Bansweolo. From
this lake issued river called Luapula, which
communicated with Lake Moero, a sheet of
water sixty miles in length. From this lake
again proceeds the river Lualaba, whose course
was traced in generally northerly direction,
though very devious, to another lake called
Kamoondo which it entered in south latitude
es,- .I.sr a
this lake entered it from the west. This river,
called Lock- or Lomami, issued from large
TAXI, situated to the southwest from Kamolondo
and known to the natives as Chebungo,
but which Livingstone chrstened Lincoln,
in honor Of our late president, whose character
he greatly admired. From Kamolondo he
slowly aud amid many discouragements worked
his way north, following the stream issuing
from that lake. and still known as the Lualaba.
It's windings he traced as far as the fourth de-
gree of latitude, where he heard ofanother large
lake still further TO the north, and in the same
central line of drainage as the lakes previously
named He earnestly desired to reach This
lake and ill out the remaining link of 1870 miles
which he ermly believed would connect his ex-
piorations with the discoveries of earlier travel
ers, and lay open the whole course of the IA
nous and mysterious Nile; but here his men
lnutinied; nothing could prevail upon them to
go further, and Livingstone was obliged to re-
turn 10 UjJi, bafiled, sick and destitute.
He reached that place in October, 1871, and
there, eighteen days later, the Herald cores
pondent found him. A few days after, taking
Stanley and his party, he set out to explore the
northern part of Lake Tanganyika, but made
no discoveries Of importance, except that they
ascertained that a river known as Rusiz, hith-
erto supposed to flow from the lake, in TACT flows
into IT. No outlet of the lake has yet been dis
covered and it is not known that 1t has any
connection with the great lake system previous
ly referred to, but DR.. Livingstone supposes that
it has subterranean outlet toward the west
through the cayerns of Kabogo mountains,
communicating at length with the Luz
alaba or the Nile. Livingstone, as Stan
ley says, has seen the river about forty
miles west of Kabogo, about forty yards broad
at that point, but he does not know that it runs
out of the mountain.
The following paragraphs from the Herald's
letter profess to give Liyingstone's own estimate
of what he has accomplished and what he yet
proposes TO do:
That this remarkable river (the Lualaba) is
the Nile and none other no Que doubts, but this
one little bank-thiS one little link-who will
fill il up? How will Imagination fill up the
void9 In this blank, north OF latitude four de-
grees south, is a lake, it was reported to DIR.
Lvingstone-may it not be Piaggia's lake?-
out of which Lstherick's branch issues into the
Bahr Ghazal and the White Nile. He has fol-
lowed this river from eleven degrees south TO
four degrees south-that is, through seven de-
grees OF latitude, or 420 geographical miles IL
only wanted 1870 miles more-this is the length
Of the undiscovered link-and the Nile, which
had Daf1ed oracles and sages, kings and emper-
ors, had been revealed throughout its length.
According TO Livingstone two things yet re-
mann before the Nile sources can be said TO be
discovered First-He has heard of the exist
enee OF four fountains, two of which give birth
to river flowing north, which is the Luaaba
and two 10 river flowing south into inner
Ethiopia, = hich IS the ZambeZi, thus verifying
the statement which the secretary Of the God
dess Minerva at Sais made to Herodotus over
two thousand years ago. He has heard of them
repeatedly and has been several times within a
fortnights march from them, but something
always interposed 10 prevent him going to see
them. These fountains require TO be seem
Seeond-kemains the link above described 10 be
explored.
He will leave Unyanyembe for Ufpa, thence
10 LieInba aud Marumgu, and crossing the Iua-
puid iNtI at ODlcutiDis Will make ms way TO
the copper mines of Katanga, in Rua then
eight days south, to discover the fountains of
Herodorus; then return by katanga to the
underground houses OF Rua, ten days northeast
vi kaianga; thence 10 Lake KamooDdo, and BY
river Luira TO Lake Lincoln; thence back to
Lualaba, to explore the lake north Of Kamo-
londo; thence return by Uguhha TO UjUi, or by
Marumgu, through Urori, TO the coast, and
England
This is his present programme, VIII ch he
thinks will only take him eighteen months but,
as J have told him, think it will take two
years.
OF the countries which he has trayersed, Ly-
ingstone tells some interesting stories:
He tells of ivory being so cheap that twenty
nNe cents worth OF copper will purchase n large
tusk, worth $40 At Zanzibar. lie tells of ivory
being turned into doorposts and cave stanchions
by the cannlbais; Of skllul manufacturers of
fine grass cloth, rvailiDg that Of India. of n
people 50 nearly approaching to white people
and 80 extremely handsome that they eclinee
anything ever seen in Africa; and from this fact
suppOses them 10 be descendants OF the ancient
Egyptians or OF some Of the lost tribes Of Israel.
he tells Of copper mines at Katauga which have
been worked for ages Of dOcile aud friendly peo-
Piles who up 10 this time have lived buried in the
lap Of barbarism, ignorant that there lived on
earth race 50 cruel and callous as the Arabs
who have come among them, rudely awaking