Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1872-08-06
LIVIN G S TO N {
ANOGEEE8 LETTER FROM
THE E03T And THE FOUXD.-
An EnchaBting Description Of
the Sources ;2nss valley OF
The Nile.
Wonderful il ErsSc.

ANOTHER LETTER FROM LIVINGSTONE.
New y Eorll, July 26.-The Herald has
another letter from DR. Livingstone re-
ceived by cable from London, and ad-
dressed TO Mr. Bennett. The following
Is all extract:
THE EASTERN AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE.
''in trying to make the Eastern Af-
Tican slave trade better known to
Americans, indulge in the hope that
l am aiding on, though in a small de-
gree, the good time coming yet, when
slavery as we'll as piracy will be chased
from the world. Many have but a
faint idea of the evils that trading in
slaves in1licts on the victims and au-
thOr5 OF its atrocities. The slaves gen
orally, and especially those on the east
coast at Zanzibar and elsewhere, are
extremely ugly. | have no prejudice
against their cOloy; ideed, anyone who
lives among them fOTgets that they are
black, and feels that they are just fel-
low-men. But the low retreating fore
head, prOgnatheous jaws, lark heels,
and other physical pecaliaritlcs COM
mon among slaves and West African
negroes, always awaken some feelings
of aversion. | would not utter Il syl-
liable calculated to press down either
class more deeply i'll the miTc in which
it is already sunk.
CENTRAL AFRICAN PHYSIQUE.
''But 1 wish TO point ont that these
are not typical Africans any more than
typical Engiishmen, and that the ma
tiums on nearly all the high lands Of
the inferior Of the continent are as a
rule average specimens of humanity.
[ happened to bc present when all the
head men of the great chief Msama,
who lives west of the south end Of
Lake Tangvanyike, had cometoeeth
er TO make peace with certain Arabs
who had burned their chief town and
] am certain that one could not see
more finely formed, intellectual heads
in any assembly in London or Paris,
and faces aud forms correspond finely
with shapeIy heads. Msama himself
had teena sort of Napoleon for lighting
and conquering in his younger days.
BEAUTY OF TIE WOMEN.
"Many of Che women are very pref
tv, and, like all ladies, would have
been much prettier if they had only
let themselves alone. Fortunately,
the dears could not change the charm
ing black eyes, beautiful fOreheads,
nicely rounded limbs, well shaped
forms, and small hands and feet; but
they must adorn themselves, and this
they do-oh, the hussiesl-by filing
splendid teeth to points like cats teeth.
They. are not black, but oflight warm
brown color. CaZembeze Queen Nor
uwanyombee by name would be es-
teemed a real beauty either in London,
Paris or New York, and yet she had a
hole through the cartilage near the
tip of her fine slightly aquiline nose"
DEATH FROM BROKEN HEARTS. -
The Doctor details the peculiarities
of the people called RUa, and tells of a
number OF them who were captives
dying of broken hearts. "They had
no complaint but pain in the heart,
and they pointed out its seat correctly,
though many believe the heart is situ-
ated underneath the top of the ster-
mum, or breast bone. This TO me was
the most startling death L ever saw"
THE CENTRAL TABLE LAND.
The watershed is broad belt of
tree-cOvered upland, some seven hun
dred miles in length from West to
East. The general altitude is between
four and five thousand feet above the
sea, and mountains stand on It at vari-
Gus points which are between six and
seven thousand feet above the ocean
level. On this watershed springs
arise which are well nigh innUmer-
able. The springs join each other and
form brooks, which again converge
and become rivers, or.say streams of
twenty, forty or eighty yards, that
never dry.
THE VALLEY or. THE NILE.
All flow toward hecentef ofthe i'm
mense valley, which | beleive to be
the valley OF the Nile. IN this trough
we have at first three large rivers, and
then al unite into one enormous locus
trine river, hecentral line Of drainage,
which | name fWebb's Walaha. In
this, great valley there are tive great
lakes. The one near the upper end Is
called Lake Benba, or more properly
Banguecolo; but it Is not a source of
the Nile. for no large river begins in a
lake. 1t is supplied by a river called
ChambeZi, and several others which
NAV be considered sources, and out of
il flows the large rivers Suapuia, which
enters Lake Moena, and comes out As
THE GREAT gsAIIE-RIvER
Lualuba. to form Lake Kamolando.-
West of KamolandO, but still in the
great valley, lies Lake Lincoln, which
I name az my tribute of love to the
great and good msn whom America
enioved for some time. The Last one
oftba thraa great rivers i mentioned, /
RaTtIefreeress on L.ugra, falls into Ka-
moIauio or Lake Lincoln become a
IOc,Istrine river. It, too. ioinsthe cen |
rtaI line OF drainage, but lower down,
and all these united form fifth lake |
which the slaves (sent to me instead of
aenl forced me, to my great grief, TO
leave as the unknown lake. By my
reckoning, the chFOnometers being all