Litchfield enquirer., 1872-08-01
LIVINGSTONE.

bSis Ss Rsiafed by the Expiofef.
 LONDON, July %.
 Jamea Gordon Bennett, Esq:
 SwI beg leave to transmit to you the fhn following important and most highly iukeresking special communication, receiv- ea in this city fDm Dr. Iivingstone by Seanley's mai, from Africa conveying the thanks of the explorer to the editor of the NY. Herald for the successful organiza- RSum of the Afrzcan search expedition which kas placed the long lost traveller again in sommnnicatiOn with civilization. Very Rsspec&fnlly, GRO. W. HosMER,
 Arenf New York Herald. London.
 IrvTxGsroxKis LETTER or THANKS
 UIQi on Eanyaka-East Africa.
 Mr. James Gordon Bennett, IT,. Esq.
 Mv Dear Sir-It is in general somewhat 3mrnh tD write to one wehave never seen enc feels 60 nuch like addressing an ab- xazar4 SasA. bat the presence of your rep FesszknEire, Nr. H. Stanley, in this dis sMza region, takes away the strangeness I EAozA otherwise have felt, and in writing tO thank you for the ex- szs-e 6nazess that prompted you to send ksn. feel quite at home. If I explain eAe kuxanxn condition Tn which he found ne yua VII perceive that I have good rsmsca to use veEy strong expressions of Rzxkaz3a TcA7e to Uni of tramp of 6sewsea AS0and SO miles beneath blazing wxw3srM Szn. havSEg been bafied. worried. 2z1zzAS1 z@d s1rced tO return when almost wa2 sgAt of the geographical part of @r @S@5e2 bya number of half caste Mos M2 slaves se2k to me from Zanzibar in xAMm1 of mea The sore heart made still s1esr kr tAe wOefal sight had seen of
 @4 and tnad on the bodily frame TsAn1wAf E%S dying on my feet. It is za6 tss mzeA tO say that every step of my w@zr. gzlEzT wzy wHs in pain, and I Reme&s1 UTTl Here struckle" of bones. Thze I fond that some five hundred Pgz@a SnExAEng wOwth of goods which kM3 arl3eEed from Zanzibar had unac- eszzkzk1v been entrusted tO g Wrunken, hmH emz1R Hml1nE. who after squandering thsm fsR sSxteea months on the way to CIqI G1izAed ID hy selling of all that rmmxmed fur slaves and ivory for himself. He hal sS1IvIned~ on the Koran and found Twas 3sm1 He had also written to the G@EeEzmezk of Unyanyembe that he had szzk 8lzEes &ffHr ne to Manyema, who re- snxn@3 and reported my decease and beg e@1 pexmisssna t0 sell of the few goods kis drvnke1 appetite had spared He, however, knew well from the men who hal seen ne that vas alive and waiting fag th@ goods and men, but as for moral lty he ia evidently an idiot, ana there be- ing n8 kw here. except that of the dagger 0r Hnzkek. had to sit down in great weakness, destitute of everything save a hEw barter clothes and beads which had taken the pxeeauti0n to leave here in case sf ex1rcme need-
 The near prospect of beggary among CNlMms made mo miserable. I could not dezp4Sx heznse laughed so much at a friend. who on reaching the mouth of the Zzmhsz1. said he was tempted to despair sa hceaking a photograph of his wife. We cuald have no success after that. Af- teEwaxa the i6Ao of despairhad to me such q serung xznnek of the ludicrous that it was sG1 Cf tho question Welll when had got to e6oak tAe lOwe&t verge, vague rumors 0f an Eng1iMh visitor reached me. tho1gAk of myself as the man who went down fru1 Jerusalem to Jericho, but nei- eheT prlesk, Levlte, nor Samaritan could possibly pas my way. Yet the good Sa- maxSkzR was close at hand, and one of my PeaPA@ rushed up at the top of his speed, and in great excitement gasped out, can Eng&shm&R coming I see him!" and of he dmxsed to meet him. An American n4G. the frxk ever seen m these parts at the head of a caravan, told me the nation @h1y of the stranger. I am as cold and 1n@-de@01skxzkiye as we Islanders are uHan1y reputed to be, but your kindness @aae my frame thrill 1t was indeed 0se<whelming, and said in my soul ''Let rheAe<k blessings descend from the highest o1 yo1 an1 y0ax2" The news Mir. Stan 1ey kn1 eo tell w2s thrilling.
 The mighty political changes on the Caz<zRezss the x1ccess of the Atlantic ca haess the election of Gen. Grant, and dzvs tnge3her, and had an immediate and henn6rSal ekeck on my health. I had been wS2Aaz4 aews fr0m home for years, save wAmk II com6 eaemn from a few Saturday RSxiews of lS66 The appetite revived, ed Sn c week | began to feel strong again. 1E S6mnley brought the most kind and enno1Ra@img dispAkeh from Lord Claren- 1al. wAasG loss sincerely deplore, the Gm4 have Received from the foreign of. Zee sznee 1SsS. and the information that tke Bxskssh government had kindly sent a tAa1zand pounds sterling to my aid. UI e hE8 axxxva1 was not aware of any pc. eunlmKr a1d \ came unsalaried, but this wzn4 n BOW h@pplly repaired, and I am gzxng1s y0u and all my friends should kngw that though uncheered by letter, ] have sk1ek to the task to which my fEsend Sir ROdexick Murchison set me, wTkh John Ballish tenacity, believing that an woa6 come night at last The water ahed of South Central Africa is over 700 wflea inhength- The fountains thereon art almost iaanmerable. That is, it would take @Eznis lifetime to count them From tAa watershed they converge into foul Mxge uverss and these again into two magh4y streams Tn the great Nile Valley, vAleh beglns m 10 degs. to 12 degs. south hf11nde n was long ere night dawned ca tha @1raent problem and gave sme { eteAR 1dea of the drainage; had to fee ny ways every step of it, and was gener szly groping in the dark, for who cared where the uver ran We drink our fill and Let the rest run by. The Portuguese vho vislked Casembe asked fo, slaves and ivory, and heard of nothing elsG- | asked about the waters, question. ed and exOss-questioned until I was mos &frMSd of being set down as afflicted witl hydEoesphalRsl Ny last work, in whicl l have been greatly hindered from want oa suitable attendants, was following tho central line of drainage down through tn, country of the Cannibals, called Manyue 1as Or. shortly, Mayema. This line oi dE&nage has four large lakes in it. Tn, touKsh was near, when obliged to turn 4 is from one to three miles broad anS Hsver can be reached at any time of tn. yeME. Two western drains, the Luffra ol 6artiefreres Kiver, flows into it at Lake AamnAondo, then the great river Lo lA1n@ Iowa through Lake Lincoln into n Dc. and seems to from the westerI aEm .of the Nile. on which Petherick. trad e1 Nov ! know about six hundred mile of the wAterxhed, and unfortunately tn, seventh hnndred is the most interestins ef the whole; for in it, if am not mistak en. four fountains arise from an earthei noun1, and the last of the four become, a1no great distance of large river. Tws of these run north to Egypt, Lufera ant 4soaralnes and two run south into inne-Ethi opla as the Liambia or upper Zambezi maas4 A&na Kafr.a~xn Tt1.nnza o~a sE.