The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-05-08
TIE SEARCH FOB DR. LIVINGSTONE.
From the Toronto Globe, MAY 81

From the Toronto Globe, MAY 81
II would seem there is good ground for believing
that DR.. Livingstone is safe and likely soon TO be
in England. The telegraph from Bombay conveys
the intelligence that the vessel Abydos, that took
the Livingstone search expedition to Zanzibar, has
brought news that the Doctor had met with Mr..
Stanley, the correspondent OF the NEW YORK
HERALD, and that both were safe in the interior.
We have been so often deceived however, by ru-
mors or one kind ana another that it will be well
not to be too excited and enthusiastic over the in
telligence till something definite and reliable
comes to hand.
II Ia very evident that no letter must yet have
come from the Doctor himself for Dr. Kirk would
never have allowed the opportunity Of the Abydos
going to Bombay without forwarding such a pre-
cious and assuring document, along with some COM
muncation from himself detailing the circumstances
80 far az known. There Is not q hint OF anything
like this having been done, any message from Dr.
Kirk at all. RumOr may have been busy, but
NOR Is proverbialy unreliable and WHILE there
fore, we would be most anxious to persuade our
selves that the story is perfectly authentic we wait
further confirmation before being persuaded that
there Is not the slightest mistake this time Should
IL turn out TO be the fact, unfegnedly
trust 1t VIII, that Livingstone comes among US
again as alive from the dead, what amount OF in
formation he will have to give and what lion he
will be | And In that case also the New YORK
HERALD will richly merit the applause and graft
tude OF the world In having so energeticaly and
successfully come to the rescue OF one who had
been given up lost. Not few ridicule the story
of the HERALDs having q commissioner in Africa at
ALL and airm that all Its narratives of adventure by
Stanley have been cOncocted In New York. This is
far from the fact There can be question that
there is snch man as Mr. Stanley, and that he has
been the track OF DR.. Livingstone for some time
Whether all his representations and narratives are
genuine is quite another question. Time will speed
lily try; and II the world has been too sceptcal Of
the HERALD and its dolngs, doubt 1t Will be ready
to make the ansestde honorable in due time.
From the litusvile PA Herald, May 81
Dr. Livingstone. the great explorer OF Africa, long
ago missing and supposed to be dead, has at last
turned up again. The discovery ofhis whereabouts
ought to have been the work OF the learned scien-
tihc societies OF Europe Of the English govern
ment. But IL left to American enterprise to
perform this rare work OF courage and humanity
| Or, rather, the credit IL solely due to the NEW
| YORK HERALD which, by this grand achievement,
has added the last browning proof OF its preemi-
hence AZ a cosmopolitan journal with the whole
earth for its province. Taking into account all the
| circumstances OF the case, the expense, the DIM
cutes, the peril, this service which the NEW YORK
HERALD has performed is most extraordinary in all
| its aspects ana no American can fail TO feel glow
OF pride and admiration for ts unparalleled enter
prise. The HERALD, in this remote and costly pro-
ceeding, has only acted on the wcll-knOWn princi-
pie which it has for years laid down for ITSELF to
give the earliest anu most reliable intelligence on
all subjects OF interest to the world at whatever
cost and hazard