New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-07-27
AFRICAN EXPLORATION.
1rTrrR FROM DIR. LIVINGSTONE.


JAMES GORDON BENEFIT, ir, esq.
My DEAR SIR: | wish to say little about the
slave trade I'm Eastern Africa tits not very inviting sub
iect and to some may appearvery much akin 10 the o
lady who reshed her paper for neither brths' oen''
nor marriages but for good, racy bloody muruer a"
however far from fond Of the horrible. often Wisu
could forget scenes have and will certainly noNo
try 10 infict ON others the sorrow when oeins
al mans nhnmauity TO man has often enta.led Oh
Same NJ vour readers know that about nvo years eO
undertook at the instigation OF my oe"r o'u a+or
Roderick Murchison, the task OF examining ~ ~, Gov
shed of south Central Africa. The WORK hdu w., ry,h
nv mind because tho dividing hne between -
-, co,th vas'unknown and at object for explor"'io
-, otbor work on hand at first recommended
another for the task, but on his declining 10 ~
handsome salary and something TO tan oaeA upon 80,
sari I agreed to 20 myself and was encouraged py OH
R,derick Murchison saying, IN warm JoVial nniu,i
In no tbe real dlscoverer OF the sources OF the
MI >, Thought that two years would be sufficient 20
40 from the coast inland across the head OF LAKE
70 te watershed, wherever that might De- anu "le.
examination try to begin benevolent mission WIN
ne tribe on the slope back to the coast Had KNOWN
all the tme toll hunger, hardship, and weary nouIs IN
volved I'm that precious waterparting might hu'o
rferred ayinc nv head shaved and blister put on
., p,linr with my good old friends task; but having
taken mn the burden could not bear to pe oeaen oS u"
CHARACTER OF TUE SLAVE TRADE
shall tell von a little about the progress maue ny
n.
- IN which the search and discovery OF most OF the
Nj sount,ns have brought face to face. the Whoie
traffic whether by aud ocean, is gross outrage on
the common law Of mankind. 1t is carried on nom age
toaee and in addition to the untold evils IL lnnlcts'
nts almost insurmountabe obstacles to intercourse
betUeen different portions Of the human family ms
ov sore in the world is partly owing 10 human cupid
nv partlv 70 the ignorance Of the more civilized OF man
kind Of the blight which lights chiefly on more DEGRADED
piracy ON nigh seas. 1t once as common as slave
trading is now, but 1t became thoroughly kho"h
the whole civilized world rose against H.
In now trying to make Eastern African
slave trade better known 10 Americans, IN
dulce the hope am aiding though in small degree
he good time coming yet when Slavery as wei as piracy
will be chased from the world Many have but ialut
idea the evils that trading IN slaves nict on the VIC
tins and authors Of its atrocities. Most people ina
pe that negroes after being brutazed by long course
of servude with but few Of the ameoratng Influences
That elevate the more favored races, fair average
specimens Of the African man. Our ideas are derived
slaves the West Coast who have been SUD-
feet IN domestic bondage aud all the depressing agencies
Of most unhealthy climate These have told most in
urousy on their physical frames while fraud aud the
rum trade have ruined their moral natures 50 as not to
dfcyiunate the difference of the monstrOus injustice
THE rNrABTANTs OF THE INTERIOR.
The main body OF the population live free ID the IN
terror under their chiefs and laws cuyatng their
own FARMS catching fish in their own rivers, OF lighting
bTdEely WITH the Grlnu Olu utulbtus VI
which In more recent continents can only be reached
I'm rocky strata or under perennial ice WnwoOd Reade
hit the truth when he said the ancient Egyptian, with
his large round black eyes, full luscious ps, and some
what depressed the typical negro than
the West Coast African who has been debased by the
unhealthy land he lives in. The slaves generally,
and especially those on the West Coast at
Zanzibar, and elsewhere, are extremely ugly I
have no prejudice against their color; indeed,
sny one who lives long among them forgets
they are black and feels they just fellow men, but
retreatng forehead prognathous jaws lark heels
and other physical pecuarites common among slaves
ana West African negroes always awaken some feelings
of aversion in those with which view specimens Of the
Bill skies and bruiser" class in England would not
utter a syllable calculated to press down either class
more deeper in the mre which is already sunk but
wish to point out that these are not typical Africans
any more typical Eagshmen, and that the natives
Old nearly all the nigh lands of the interior continent are
as a rule, fair average specimens OF humanity
SCENE AT PEACE COUNCIL.
happened TO be present when al the head men OF the
great Chief Msana who lives west of the south end Of
Taugyanyika bad come together to make peace with
oertaiu Arabs who had burned their chief town, and
am certain one could not finely formed, intel
lectua heads in any assembly in London Paris, and
the faces and forms corresponded finely with the shaped
heads MsaOa himself had been a sort OF Napoleon for
hghting and conquering in his younger days He was
exactly Ike the ancient Assyrians sculptmed on the
he showed himself to be one Of ourselves by
habtualy indulHng in copious pOrations of
beer, called pOmbe and had become what
Nathaniel Hawthorne called dubious below the ribs"
do not know where the phrase boated arisocracy"
1t must be American, for have had gmpses of
good many English nObemen, and Msama was the only
specimen Of boated aristocrat" whom ever set
eyes.
PERSONAL APPEARANCE OF THE WOMEN
Many OF the women very pretty, and like all
ladies' would have been much pretter If they had only
let themselves alone. Fortunately the dears could not
change charming black eyes, beautiful foreheads nicely
rounded limbs, well shaped forms, and small hands
and feet but must adorn themselves aud this they do
'oh the hussies!-by fling splendid teeth to points
like cats teeth. 1t distressing for It made their
smile-which has such power over us he darkes-like
that OF crocodile ornaments, scarce What would our
ladies DO they had none but pout and lecture us on
WOnans rights But these specimens Of the far sex
make shft by adjoining fine, warm, brown skins tat
toOing various pretty devices without coors that he
sides purposes OF beauty serve the heraldie uses NJ
Highland tartans. They not black but of light
brown color, and very sistersh ~ may use
the word, Ike new coinage, IL feels an injury done
ones self bit OF grass stuck through the cartilage
Of nose as to bulge the ola uasi or wing Of
tha nose Of the anatOmists. Cazembes queen. Moara
Nyombe by NAME would be esteemed a real beaptv
either in London Paris, NewYork and yet she had
hmal hole through the cartilage the tip Of her fine
slightly aquilne nose But she had only filed one SIDE
oil TWO OF the front Of her superb snOw-wbite teeth
and then, what a laugh she had Let those who
wish TO know 20 see her. She was carried to her
farm ID a pony phaeOD which is a sort Of throne fast
u ln TWO very long poles and carried by twelve stall
,, l]ehs II they take Puhehs motto for Cazembe
nv - require 10 De shot here as their own They
NOT C.s themselves to be men, but whether they do or
sense. "i"lSeH man OF sterling good
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