The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-08-16
THE VALLEY OF THE ZAMBEZl
A Interesting Piece Of Gossip Graphic with
Personal Traits and EDlivencd by Notes
Of PniIoUs Adventure.
Kind OFFICES OF THE AMERICAN
General Review of the Living
stone-Stanley Letters
to the Herald.
Rrom thc Western Daily Press July 30.

PROM the western Daily fTess, July oV1
When the news Of Mr.. Stanleys success In dis
covering DIR. Livingstone first reached this coun-
~ there were folks who more than insinuated
doubt as 10 whether the newspaper correspondent
Aad really been TO the interior OF Africa. The am
% evidence which has since come to hand has re-
showed doubts Of this kind wherever they existed
While the English Geographical Society was organ
ising its expedition single individual the repre-
sentative OF an American newspaper, accomplished
tho great task of seeking and finding DIR. Living
stone. AS an example Of newspaper enter
prise this mid African search, involving, as
IL did, dangers Of o serious kind, is without
parallel Mr.. Stanley, in fact, carried his life
In his hand. He had to encounter the risks Of
. treacherous climate and the dangers which are
inseparable from o journey through the semicivi-
Axed populations who inhabt the country be-
tween the coast and the place where DR.. Living
stone was found. 1t has been said that Mr.. Stan
ley, unlike other African travellers was not ami
mated by any pure love OF adventure or by any
desire to make great geographical discoveries
Certainly he was neither Spoke, Baker, Barth
nor a Burton nor had he the missionary spirit Of
Nonat or q Livingstone. But his services are,
nevertheless, not to be undervalued because his
motives were different from those OF the great
travellers and explorers named. Dr. Livingstone
had disappeared. Surmise had placed him
had S finished him outright and the aues
and alive, where Is he9 What is his present con.
0ltion9 and what are his requirements 1t &C
%ssr Of the equal OF his aer that
no could use hts newspaper machinery to answer
1nese questions. The original idea OF such novel
carrying it out must be awarded to MT stanley
me questions which were SO frequently asked
oher COUNTRIES reatns to the wnereaoouts
sqd fate of DR.. Livingstone are CON-
pletely answered, and the circumstances un-
der which they have been answered are
mantle that they read like new chapter OF Defoe,
rendered still more ir ensey interesting by the fact
thai every incident Is literally true. 1t would be
dtn1cut to appreciate the feelings Of DR.. Living
stone when he heard that IAN Englishman was
coming and saw the American nag waving in the
dlf1cult to comprehend the thrill OF satisfaction
which Mr.. Stanley must have experienced when he
recognized the object OF his search. Dr. Living
Vtene has himself recorded his own feelings in a
iew brief sentences In one Of the letters to Mr.:
non-demonstratve, he says, "as we islanders are
usually reputed to be. but your Kindness made my
said IN my souLes the richest blessings n
descend on you and yours" The Doctor had
been without news for several years. his latest
gieanings as TO home events having been conveyed
20 him In few copies OF the Saturday Reriet0 and
PsascA for 1868. After this he was unacquainted
Stood therefore, with what avdity he would listen
70 the news Of the mighty changes that have since
exactly the mar to give him information, being
thoroughly acquainted with all the chief personal,
political and national events Of the period which,
70 DR.. Livingstone was q blank. The story which
Nr. Stanley has TO tell OF Dr. Livingstone is not yet
fully before us but he has supplied enough to show
how thoroughly he entered into the work which
Nr. Bennett placed before him, and how COM
pletely successful he was IN carrying 1t out. The
letters OF Dr. LIVINGSTONE, Just published are IKE
zee In them revival OF spirits caused by the trans
Atlantic relief agency which Mr.. Bennett estab-
ushed. Those who know Dr. Livingstone person
ally are well aware OF his buoyant and hopeful
spirits II is almost impossible to depress him, and
Stanley found him in ''iorlorn condition. alter
hIs tramp to Ujiji Of between four hundred and five
hundred miles, "bailed, worried and defeated"
know him best will understand the terribly depress-
ting character OF the circumstances which led him
STANLEY must, indeed, have invigorated him
with new life, for the old appreciation Of humor
him In his most prosperous and successful
periods appear In his letters. The estimate which
doubt vary according to the appreciation OF the
dinculties Of the task which he accomplished
That the expedition was hazardous one no one
Will deny: that IL was successful Is equally Obv-
0us. Mr. Stanley undertook great work, and
succeeded In it, and all England is indebted to
him and to the spirited newspaper proprietor
under whose auspices and at whose expense the
work was carried out. The Information which IL
supplied In DR.. Livingstone's letters as to the
friend Sir Roderick Murchison TO explore md
the details OF the great slave traflc and the
our stock acknowledge on these subjects, but for the
moment, this information, important and valuable
pnTe Ue persona eSaracter WHAT we wanted
20 know particularly related to DR.. Livingstone
himself and on this point Mr. Stanley has satisfied
us and is deserving OF the heartest reception that
August at Brighton, and the British public can give
him. lie Is true servant OF science, and his
ACHE vements, having been accompanied by posi-
tive danger, have about them something OF the
hcroic-a quality which Englishmen have always
stone, moreover, supplies new tie between Eng
snd ana ana shd cannot n Ian 10 strengthen
tween the two nations.
From the Guardian, the organ OF the Church o
England
The news about Dr. Livingstone and his dscov
cries reaches us In fashion which Is provokingl,
ffagmentary and disconnected. Some weeks age
the Times was enabled, by the courtesy OF the NEW
YORK HERALD, to publish q summary 9th accoun
given by Mr.. Stanley the correspondent despatche,
BIZ the enterprise OF the latter journal In search
the missing traveller. In the course OF the las
week another correspondent-on the stan OF tn
Daily 7eleoraph-has waylad Mr. Stanley bimse
1t Marseiliss accompanied him to Paris, and 50
cured the privilege OF many hours conversatio
with the successful finder. Two letters rom ID
Livingstone himself-if they are genuine-have als
found their way into the newspapers. The resul
OF the whole Is an interesting piece OF gossiT
graphic with personal traits and enlivened by note
ofperilous adventure. But for anything more del
Unite we must probably wait q little longer. Mr.
Stanley is the bearer OF numerous letters from DR.
Livingstone, including bis diary-a precious docu
ment for the presery alton Of which In the hazardou
passage Of river we are said to be indebted TO Mr.
6tanley's prompt decision In the ready handling O
aTevoIver. These win give In time the full story Il
che public; but IL IL only fair that the NEW YoRE
HERALD which FIRST found the traveller and rescued
him from want and illness, should have the frs
benefit OF his communications They will not b,
Yong IN travelling back to Europe, even II they ar,
not anticipated BY the disclosures which NAY "