New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-08-20
AFRICAN EXPLORATION.
PRIVATE LETTER OF DIR. LIVING


STONE.
TORONTO, Canada, Aug. 19.-The following
is Dr. yngstones letter 10 his brother In Canada pub
lished in The Globe of this city;
MY DEAR BROTHER received your welcome letter
in February last written when the cable news made YOU
put on your suite OF morn n hem ws s1 laid In
the deep Atlantic. Very few letters nave reached me TOT
years 10 t % s, e6s DOWN ts Ne or
elsewhere. The watershed is broad upland between
miles mile SN long U' Tue springs Of the Nile that
rise thereon almost innumerable. IL would
one part-GI miles Of latitude-gave 80 springs from
calf waist deep, or one spring Tor every Two mes
frost On the windowpanes TO ascertain that all of
these fountains united with four great rivers In the up
trayeI Many a weary foot rod ere light dawned on
the ancient problem. II had left at the end OF two
have thrown very little Light on the country than
the Portuguese who In their three siased besrd Of
nothing else asked about the waters questlonea anu
erossquestloned TN was rea aTb bydroeepba
went forward backwards and sideways, feeling my
way and every step OF the way was generally cropping
in the dark, for who cared where the rivers ran VI
these four rivers into wa ned 'no Is II the sTS largest It
begins the River Chambeze, which nows INTO the
Changed from Chambeze to Luapula, and that enters
Lake Moero Coming out OF it, the name LualaDa IS as
snmed and il flows into third lake, kamoondo, which
receives one the four large drains mentioned above
II then flows and makes two enormous pends 10 inc
west which made often fear that was following the
Congo instead OF the Nile II is from one to three miles
broad and can be waded at any part OF AZ any
time of the year. Far own the valley " receives
another of the four large rivers above mentioned the
IocltIe or Lomame, which flows through what nave
IaaIabs We have, them only two lines OF drainage
in the lower part OF the great valeythat u.s. Langa
VIA and Albert Lake, which but one ake-riyer or
ay il YOU want TO be pedantlc Laustune RIVER These
form the eastern line The ns n %Sn a. cs e
picted by Ptolemy In the second century OF our era
After the Lamame enters the Luaao' ,ne oupra gfsaf
have not vet SEEN yet the link between the eastern
and mains Al the top Oh nsd LpIp oHe
Sossiby those reported to Neros centurion and THESE
form n spS BAKER believed to be the Egypt
Neither can be called the Nile until they unite Ine
small Lake Bsnswoo at the lowest estimate, is
iso miles long and tred TO cross II and measure ts
a. miles, the second stage could be from
iss highest point or rather the tops OF the trees
IL 'e %as up Said S to 5s as H far be-
You'd: but canoe men had stolen the Sanog anu ,ney
got hint the real owners were IN pursuit, ana got
Into furry, return home Oh tnat Iney wouaa! Du,
had only my eoverlet LETT to hire another ersi ana
90 gave In aud went back, but believe the breadth 10
be between and 10 miles. Bangwoa, Moero ana KAN
oionda are looked on great riverne lake, and
one of Ptolemy's. The other is the Tanyanka. which
steadily flowing to tae sSrt their
men who visited the very region The reason why the
genuine geography was ecea One % !ns re
eu6ished pamphlet, which. with killing modesty. he
ntitled "Inner Africa laid Open, and IN the newspa
even In The AZ any ono who travels and
dsres TO nnd country different from that drawn In
Sts waddIe. / great sinner In the poor fellows
Opinion and me Tn'es published his rawlings even when
Twas most wisely believed 10 be dead. Nobody but
| ord Brougham and know what people will say after
De ara gone The work Of trying 10 follow the central
line of drainage down has taken me away from mails or
postage. . .,.,o,,,o,, ..,,,. 49,. 4. $500.
long before could get conclusive evidence thereon
was sorely let and hndered by having hacaste Mosem
attendants, unmtgsted towards and false as their
nrophct Of whose religion they have only imbbed the
fusone pride. They forced me back when almost In
sight Of the end OF my exploration distance OF be-
tween and so miles under blazing vertical sun.
csmo here u rucke Of BONES terribly faded In body
and mind. The head man Of my worthless Moslcms re-
manned here. and, he had done from the coast ran
riot with the goods sent to drunk for month ut
time He then OWNED on the Koran and found that
was dead sold on all the goods that remained for slaves
and ivory for himself and arrived TO lind myself desti
OF every thing except few goods LETT In case OF
need. Goods the currency here, and have 20 wait
now tall other goods and other from Zanzibar
When placed In charge OF my supply OF soap brandy,
opium, and gunpowder from certain Banians (Brtish
tubjects be moDths returnipg all eIpenses being