Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-05-03
W oRCESTER.
FRIDAY. MAY 3. 1879.
DIR. Livingstone.

A dispatch from London, dated May End,
states that DIR. Livingstone is safe, and that he
has reached Zanzibar. This news has been
telegraphed from Bombay, with the additional
statement that it was carried from Zanzibar to
Bombay by the English Search Expedition"
which left England, February 25th. The cir
cumstantial evidence indicates that this report
is true. The rescue of DIR. Livingstone from
his difficulties is attributed to the New York
Herald's correspondent, Mr.. Stanley. The
Bombay dispatch says: 'the great traveller is
safe with the American Stanley" 1t is not in
the highest degree creditable TO the English that
they neglected effective search for Dr. Living
stone, until he was found, relieved, End brought
back to the coast, by American enterprise. Theil
sympathy has been dull and their movement
slow; and, finally, they organized an expedition
which went to Zanzibar and found its work
already done by another.
DIR. Livingstone left England in 1865, reached
Bombay, January 3, 1866, and went immediately
to the African coast. In May, 1866, he was in
the interior, going up the river Livuma towards
Lake Nyassa. He went round the southern ex-
tremity of this lake, and then, turning towards
the northwest explored the country up TO the
tenth degree of south latitude In 1861 he dis
covered two previously unknown lakes near
Lake Tanganyika, one near its south end and
the other west Of it. In December of that year
he was at "Cazembe's town." some two or
three degrees south of that lake. His
next aim was to travel through the coun.
try west of Lake Tanganyi&a, towards the
north, and afterwards cross the lake to Ujiji;
but he found the country flooded, and was OBJ
liged TO return to Cazembe's town. From this
point he went south; and, in July, 1868, wrote
the letters in which he stated his belief that
Lake Tanganyika was connected by continu-
nous river with the great lakes to which the
Nile was traced by Spoke and Baker; and, also,
that there was, at least one other great lake be-
tween this and the lake explored by.2aker. AT
ter writing these letters, he seems to have gone
north, along the east side of Lake Tanganyika,
TO Ujji.
The last letter received from Dr. Livingstone
we believe, was written at Ujiii, in May, 1869,
and addressed to DR.. Kirk at Zanzibar. Since
this date, uncertain reports of his movements
have been received. 1t appears probable that,
in 1870, he went westward to Manyema, part
of the country in which he expected to find
another great lake. In March, 1871, Dir. Kirk
received letters from Ujiji, written by two Arab
travellers, which stated that he was at that
time at a native town in the Manyema
region, "helpless, without means, and with
few followers" Mr.. Stanley left Baga-
moyo, on the eastern coast of Africa, April
l, 1871, with supplies and a sufficient ret
inue, intending to find DR.. Livingstone, and eX-
peeting TO find him at Uj1i. As he proceeded,
he heard reports of the lost explorer, some of
them indicating that he had visited the Man
yema region and discovered the great lake which
he believed to be there. Where Stanley found
him is not told. No particulars are given; but,
If report sent from Bombay is true, we shall
soon have the whole story.