The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-08-09
New Yosk, JoIy ss.


| somewhat difficult to write to one We
| have never seen; it feels 80 much Ike
| addressing an abstract idea; but the
presence Of your representative, NJ
II. M. Stanley, in this region, taxes
away the straDgeness shouid othe.-
wise have felt, and in writing 10 tnank ].
YOU for the extreme Kindness tna'
prompted you to send him, ieei quite
at home. I'll explain the foriorn con,
ditiou in which he found me, you VIII
easily perceive / have good reason 10
use a very strong expression ~ graft
tnde. came to Ujiji, trip OF between
s,ur hundred and five -huudred miles,
beneath a blazing, vertical sun, having
baen h,ffged. worried, defeated, ana
forced tn return when almost in sight
Of the end of the geographical part OF
NV mission by a number of half caste
WosIaro slaves cent to- me from Zanzl-
bar instead of men. The sore neart
made still sorer by the wofui s'Sn.s Il
had seen of mans inhumaMty, TOO,
reached and told on the bodily frame
and depressed it beyond measure: L
tbouoht I was dying On my feet. III Is
not TOO much 10 say / took almost
every step of the weary, suitry way y,
pain, and reached UJlji . mere luen,e s,,e
of bones. There i found some Eve "e
hundred pounds sterling ~ vi
goods. which I had ordered irom nan
zibar, had unfortunately been in,Ius'eu
to a drunken and half caste Mciem
tailor, who, after squanderfhe them
for sixteen months ON the wa! W
Ujiji, finished up by selling on tne s
Remainder for slaves and ivory ,or
himself He bad ''divined' on 'he
Koran and found I was dad. lie haa
also written a letter to the Governor Oh
Unvanyembe that he had sent SLAVES
after me TO Manyama, who fcturheu
and reported my deeease, and oegyeu
neru,issjou To sell off the few goods ms
drunken appetite had spared eIn ~
however. knew perfectly well, from
men who had seen me, thas 1 Wa
alive. and waiting for the gooas anu
men. but as for morality, ne = evi-
IDENTIFY an idiot, and there peing n0
Law exceDt that of dagger or musket,
had tn sit down in great weakness,
destitute of everything save m
clothes and beads which L nao .anex ~
the precaution to leave here IN t@Io -,
extreme need. The prospect =, NY
ging among the Utjans maae ,',e
miserable. / could not despair, oe
ca,,se T laughed SO much at q irieno
who. ON reaching the NOUN Oh .ue
said he was tempted 70 oe
nair on breaking the photograph Oh ms
wifa We could have no success ai'et
that Afterward the idea OF despair
haS 70 mo u,cb n strong smack of the
ludjcreus that it was out OF the quts-
ton Well, when 1 got to ABOUT ti'e
Lowest verge vague rumOrs OF an Eng-
lish visitor reached me. L thougns on
m mvse,f "a A man who went down rom
Jerusalem TO Jeribco, but neither pries',
Ieyite, or Samaritan eouia Fss;;oy
pass my way, yet the goou oanI'si oHe ,
was close at hand, and one U ny ~
rushed up at the top vi MI
speed, and, in great exciteinen, sa1isu
out: IAN Englishman comihg 4 seo
him. and Off he darted TO meet Dill.
The American flag, the first ever seen
in these parts, at the head Of the cara
van told me the nationality OF tbe
.tranyer- / am as cold and non,
as we islanders are usuai
Iv renuIed to be, but your KINDNESS
made INV frame thrill. 1t was indeed
and said in my SOUL
i, ,et the richest blessings descend rom
the HIGHEST upon you and yours Inc
news ti,at Stanley had to tell me was
thrilling. The mighty poiitlcal enanges gs
nm the Continent, the success Oh tnS
Atlanti, cables. the election OF 6enerai
l3rant and many other topics riVe,ea
NV attention for days together, ah'i
\ ~ An immediate and beneficial effect
On my health. / had been Wi.npat ut
news from home for years, save via.
I could CLEAN from 4 lew o1s,""uy
Revie,us and Punch, OF 1885; ny ap
petite revived, and in week I osSs'n
10 feel strong again. Stanley 1aoa ,ah
most kind and encouragihe aSP"I
from Lord Clarendon, whose loss L
sincerely deplore, the first ! na'e 80
,e;yed from the Foreign once since
lSe0 and information that the British
had sent thousanu
pounds sterling to my aid. UP 10 ms
rival 7 WAS not aware OF my pecuh'
,rv aid. ard / came unsalaried; bu!
his want is now happily repaired, ana
i am anxjous that you aud all my
ir;enls should know that, though uh-
.becred by a letter, i have stuck 10 ihe
ask which my friend Sir RodericR
set me, with John Ban
enacity, believing that all would come
light at last.
nTbe watershed Of South Central
A frjca is over seven hundred miles In
enpth. The fountains thereon are
,lmost SO innumerable that it would
axe n mans lifetime To count them.
From the water shed they converge
n.o four large rivers, and these again
nto two mighty streams IN the great
Vile Valley. which begins in ten d~
,rces south latitude. IL was long ere
irbt dawped ON the ancient problem,
mi gave me n clear idea OF the drain.
,ge. I had to feel my way, and every
,tep of the way, and was generaby
ironing in the dark, for who carei
which way the rivers ran? we drank
mr. fiIl and let the rest run by. Inc
Dortuouese who visited Cazembc asked
or slaves. and heard nothing efse. L
,sked about the water, Questioned anu
until / was almost
Ifraid of being set down as ain'c'eo
With shydrocephalus.
my last work, in which nave
cen greatly Kindred from want OF
uitsbie attendants, was following tne
enfrnl line of drainage down the
ough country of the cannibais, caIeu
or shortly, ManyemA. Inis
inc of drainage has four lakes III u.
The fourth / was near when obifged I'd
urn. 1t Is from one to three miles
road. and never can be reached ~ any
,oint or at any time Of the year. Two
Western drains-Lupria, or Bartieiriez
into it at Lake kanaionoo.
Then the great river Lomaine hows
through Lake Lincoln into II 100, anu
GEMS 10 form the western arm OF the
Vile on which Petheric traded. NOW,
know about six hundred miles oil
vafer-shed. and unfortunately tue
eventh hundred Is the most interesting
4 the whole, for i'm 1t, II ! am not mis-
sken four fountains arise from the
arthen mound, and the last OF the four
,ecomes, at no great distance OIL, a large
liver. Two of these run nortn 10
egypt, Lupera and LORRAINE, ana TWO
mn south into inner Ethiopia or LII
.miai or Upper Zambesi and ksfneale'
rhere are no sources of the Nile NEIL
ioned by the Secretary Of Minerva, III
he city of Sais, to Heroditus. Il nave
,ear,l Of them so often, and at great
i;stan off that / cannot DOUBT their
.x;stence. and i'm spite of the sore ione-
,,s, for nome that seizes NE every time
,O -, FAMILY 7 wish TO finish