The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1872-08-02

the source OF the Nile.
New YORK, July 25.-The Herald
received by cable, tonight, the fol
lowing letter from DR.. Livingstone
directed to James Gorden Bennett
which reached London by the Stan.
ley mail:
TJIJI, ON FENGANYKA, EAST AFRICA,
NOVEMBER, 1871.
JAMES GORDON BENNETT, JR., ESQ
My Dear Sir: 1t is in general some
what difficult to write to one we
have never seen. 1t feels so much
like addressing in the abstract idea,
but the presence of your representa-
tive Mr.. H. NJ. Stanley, in this re-
gion, takes away the strangeness l
should otherwise have felt, and in
writing to thank you for your ex-
treme kindness that prompted you
to send him, feel quite at home.
If 1 explain the forlorn condition
in which he found me, you will easi-
lY perceive that l have good reasons
to use very strong expressions of
gratitude. I came to Ujiji off trip
of between four hundred and five
hundred miles, beneath q blazing
vertical sun having been baffled, ,wor-
ried, defeated, and forced to return,
when almost in sight of the geo
graphical part of my mission, by a
number of half caste Moslem slaves,
sent to me from Zanzibar, instead of
men. The sore heart was made still
sorer by the woful sights 1 had seen
of mans inhumanity to man, and
told on my bodily form and de-
pressed it beyond measure. Thought
| was dying on my feet. 1t is not
too much to say went almost every
step of the weary, sultry way in pain,
and l reachad Ujija a mere nuckle
of bones. There l found some 500
pounds sterling worth of goods
which 1 had ordered from Zanzibar,
had unaccountably been entrusted
to a drunken half-caste Moslem tai
lor, who, after squandering them for
sixteen months on the way to Ujiii,
finished up by selling off the remain
der for slaves and ivory for himself.
He had divided on the Koran, and
found that l was dead. He had also
written to the Governor of Unya-
ryembe that he had sent slaves after
me to Manyamai who returned and
reported my decease and begged per-
mission to sell off the few goods his
drunken appetite had spared. He,
however, knew perfectly well from
the men who had seen me that was
alive and waiting for goods and men,
but as for morality he is evidently
an idiot, there being no law except
that Of the dagger or musket, 1 had
to sit down in great weakness, des-
titute Of everything save a few bar
ter clothes and beads which l had
taken the precaution to leave here
in case of extremity.
The near prospect of beggary
among the Ujijians made me misera-
BILE l could not despair because /
laughed so much at a friend who, on
reaching the mouth of the Zambasi,
said he was tempted to despair on
breaking the photograph of his wife.
We could have no success after that.
Afterward the idea of despair had to
to me such strong smack of Iudi-
crousness that it was out of the
question. Well, when l had got to
about the lowest verge, vague ru-
mOrs Of an English visitor reached
me. l thought Of myself as the man
who went down from Jerusalem to
Jericho, but neither Priest, LeVite
nor Samaritan could possible pass
my way. Yet the good Samaritan
was close at hand, and one of my
people rushed up at the top of his
speed and in great excitement; and
gasped out: can Englishman is com
ing-I see him!' and off he darted to
meet him. The American flag, the
first ever seen in these parts, at the
head of the caravan, told me the
nationality Of the stranger. am as
cold and nOndemonstrative as we
Englishmen are usually reputed to
be, but your kindness made nv
frame thrill. 1t was indeed over
whelming, and l said in my soul,
"Let the richest blessing descend
from the highest on you and yours"
The news Stanley had to tell me
was thrilling. Mighty political
changes on the continent; the sue
cess Of the Atlantic cable; the cleo
tion Of General Grant, and many |
other topics kept my attention for
days together, and had an immediate
and beneficial effect on my health. |
| had been without news from home |
for years, save what l could CLEAN
from few Saturday Reviews and
Punch Of 1868. My appetite reviv-
ed, and in week. began to feel |
strong again. Stanley brought a |
most kind and encouraging despatch |
from Lord Clarendon, whose loss l |
sincerely deplore, the first 1 have re-
ceived from foreign offices since |
1866, and the anformation that the |
British Government had kindly sent
a thousand pounds sterling to my
aid. Up to his arrival l was not
aware of any pecuniary aid, 1 came
unsalaried, but this want is now hap
PLY repaired, and l am anxious that
you and all of my friends should
know that, though uncheered by
letter, l have stuck to the task which
my friend Sir Roderick Murchison
set for me with ''John Bullish" ten
acity, believing that all would come
right at last.
The watershed of South Central
Africa is over seven hundred miles
IN length. The fountains thereon
are almost innumerable; that is, it
would take mans life time to count