Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-07-27
letter from the Long Lost who
Doesn't Happen to Have that
Strawberry Mark, etc.
He GIOriies the Herald, and, like
a Man, Expresses his Gratitude
for Stanley's Visit.
What he has Seen, What he has
Done, AMI What he Intends
to DO-The Sensation of
the Day.

NEW YORK, July 25.-The Herald re-
ceived by cable tonight the following
letter from DIR. Livingstone, directed to
! James Gordon Bennett, which reached
London in Stanley's mail:
UJ1JI, or THE TANGANIKA,
East Africa, November lS, lS1l
James Gordon Bennett, Esq:
I MY DEAR SIR-It is in general some
what difficult to write TO one We have
1 never seen: it feels so much like address,
4 ing an abstract idea; but the presence of
4 YOUR representative, Mr.. II. NJ. Stanley,
in this region takes away the strange
ness 1 should otherwise have felt, and
in writing to thank you for the extreme
kindness that prompted you to send
him. feel quite at home. If explain
the forlOrn condition in which he found
me, you will easily perceive that / have
good reasons 10 use very strong express
sions Of gratitude.
I came to Ujiji-a trip of between four
|. and five hundred miies-beneath YER
teal, blazing sun. Having been baffied,
worried, defeated, was forced to return
when almost in sight of the end of the
geographical part of my mission, by
number of half-caste Moslem slaves,
sent To me from Zanzibar instead of
4 men. The sore heart was made still
sorer by the woful sights had seen Of
mans inhumanity. held on, my bodi-
/ " frame depressed beyond measure. l
thought I should die on my feet. 1t is
not too much to say that almost every
step Of the weary, sultry way was in
\ pain, aud reached Ujiji mere mass Of
bones. There I found that some five
4 hundred pounds sterling worth of goods
which | had ordered from Zanzibar had
unaccountably been entrusted to
drunken man, a half-caste Mosiem
tailor, who, after squandering them for
sixteen months ON his way to Ujiji, fin
ished up by selling off the remainder for
slaves and ivory for himself He had
/ OWNED the Koran, and found that |
was dead. He had also written to the
E9Overnor of Unyanyembe that be had
sent slaves after 5ne to Manyama, who
returned and reported my decease. He
/ begged permission to sell off what goods
his drunken appetite had spared. He,
/ however, knew perfectly well, from
men who had seen me, that l was alive
and waiting Cor nay goods and men; but
as for morality, be is evidently an idiot,
and there being no law except that of
| the dagger or musket, 1 had sat down in
/ great weakness, destitute of everything
/ save a few clothes and beads which [ had
/ taken the precautiOn to leave here in
case of the extreme near prospect of
! begging among the Ujijians made me
miserable; but l could not eIspair, be-
cause 1 laughed so much al a friend,
who, on reaching the mOuu of Scam
bessie, said that he was temI ted to des-
4 pair on breaking the phOtog aph of his
wife. We could have no success after
that. Afterward the idea of despair
had, to me, such strong smack Of the
ludicrous that it was out Of the ques-
tion. Well, when / got to about the
| lowest verge, vague rumOrs Of an Eng
lish visitor reached me, and l thought
Of myself as the man who went down
from Jerusalem to Jericho, but neither
priest, Levite nor Samaritan could pos
sibly pass my way, and yet the good
Samaritan was close at hand. Some of
my people rushed up at the top of their
speed, and in great excitement, gasped
out-"an Englishman is coming; l see
him, - and off he darted to meet him.
The American flag, the first ever seen
in these parts, headed the caravan, told
me of its nationality. was as cold and
inOn-demonstrative as we islanders are
usually reported to be, but your kindness
made my frame thrill; it was indeed
overwhelming, and I said in my soul,
may the richest and choicest blessings
descend from the Highest on you
and yours. The news Stanley had to
tell me was thrilling. Mighty political
changes on the continent, the success of
the Atlantic cable, and many other top
les, which riveted my attention for days
together, and had an immediate and be-
neficent effect on my health. l had
been without news from home for years,
save what | could CLEAN from a few Sat
7gC3dy ReUieass and PDtchof 1868. My
appetite revived, and in a week began
to feel strong again. Stanley brought
me a most kind and encouraging dis
patch from Lord Clarendon, whose loss
l sincerely deplored, the first have re-
ceived from the foreign Office since
March, 1856, and the information that
the British Government had kindly
sent a thousand pounds sterling to me,
and up to his arrival was not aware of
any pecHniary aid, as l came unsala-
ried; but this want is now happily re-
paired, and am anxious that YOU and
all my friends should know that though
uncheered by letter, l have stuck to the
task which my friend, Sir Rhoderic
murchison, set me, with John Bull te
naciously believing that all would come
rightat last.
The watershed Of South Central Africa
is over seven hundred miles in length,
fountains thereon are almost immune
rable-that is, it would take a mans life
time TO count them. From the Water
shed they converge into four large rivers, |
and these again into two mighty streams !
in the great Nile Valley, which begins
in ten degrees to twelve degrees south
latitude. 1t was a large air-light that
bad dawned on ancient problems, and
gave me clear idea of drainage. / had |
to feel my way, every step Of the way, |
and was generally cropping in the dark,
for who cared where rivers ran. We
drank our fill and let the rest run by. |
Portuguese who visited Casemenbe asked |
for slaves, and heard nothing else. !
asked about the waters, questioned and |
cross-questioned, until ] was almost |
afraid of being set down as afflicted with |
hydroephalus. Ny last work, in which |
/ have been greatly hindered, from want |
Of suitable attendants, in following I
the central line of drainage down the |
rough country Of cannibals called Man |
zume, or, shortly, Manzema. This line |
Of drainage has four lakes IN it. The |
fourth | was near when obliged to turn. |
It is from one to three miles broad, and |
never can be reached at any point or at |
any time Of the year. Two western |
drains-Supria or Bartlefrieze river, Howl
one mile into Lake RanlalenOd; the |
great river Lomame flows through Lake |
Lincoln into and seems to form the |
western arm Of the Nile. kBOW,,about six |
hundred miles of watershed, and unfor- |
tJtnately the seventh hundred is the |
most interesting Of the whole, for in it, |
il / ana not mistaken, four fountains 4
arise from earthern mounds, and the i
last of the four becomes, at no great l
distanceoH large river. Two of these
run north to Egypt, LupeFa and Lou
Eaine, and two run south into inner /
Ethiopia, as LimbEa or Upper Sambesi |
and kaffnear. These are not the sources
of the Nile mentioned to HerOdotus. |
have heard Of them so often, and at /
great distances Off that cannot doubt |
their existence, and in q spirit of sore
longing for home that seizes me every
time l think Of nay family, I wish to-
finish up by their rediscovery. Five |
hundred pounds sterling worth of goods /
have again unaceountably been intrust-
ed to slaves, and have been over year
on the way, instead of four months /
must 60 where they lie, at your rexpense,
ere / can put a natural completion I
to my works. II my disclosures regard |
ing the terrible Ujinsn slavery should /
lead % the suppression Of the east coast
slave trade, shall regard that as a |
greater matter by far than the discovery
Of all the Nile sources together. Now |
that you have done with domestic sla-
very forever, lend us your powerful aid
toward this great object. This fine
country Is blighted as with curse from
above In order that the slavery priv
neges Of the petty Sultan Of Zanzibar