The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-01-15
The Rcrald's African ExpeditiOn-Thanks
from n Brother Of DIR. Livingstone.
In the WildS


from n Brother of DR.. Livingstone.
In the wilds
or fiery climes he made himself home,
An AM MS soul drank tneli sunteams he was grit
Himself what he had been, on the sea
And on the shore he was wanderer BYRON.
The HERALD's African expedition in search
of DR.. Livingstone has attracted much atten-
ton in both hemispheres, and we have received
from the public press, far and near, many
gratifying complimentary notices of this novel,
costly and perilous undertaking. 1t is with
particular pleasure, however, that we lay be-
fore our readers the following letter from a
brother Of DR.. Livingstone. in the wilds of the
New Dominion -
LIsTowELL, Ont. Canauu, jan 0. 1872
TO THE EDITOR or THE HERALD:-
take the earliest opportunity OF sincerely thank.
ing you for your noble and generous efforts IN at
tempting the rescue Of my brother. Dr. Livingstone,
the African traveller. had only heard it rumored
lately that an American expedition mad been sent
brother; but was not aware until q few days since
that the expedition was fitted out and sustained at
which have Overtaken the expeditions; YET DR..
LlyfngstOne's relatives and friends will always feel
themselves indebted to your enterprise and gene.
lleve the Doctor had been crowned with success
"'n' S'A'''"'"' '0u'' 'J JUN LIVINGSTONE.
From the last sentence of this letter it
appears that Mr.. Livingstone Is of the opinion
that from the misfortunes which had over
taken our expedition it had failed. But our
hardy and experienced Oriental explorer,
having accomplished the most difficult part of
his journey, had only halted at Unyanyembe
to recruit his strength and collect his forces
for the few hundred miles of travel still re-
quired to carry him to Ujji, on Lake Tan
ganyika, where he expected to find Dr..
Livingstone, or to get some definite informa-
ton of his whereabouts, living or dead; and,
living or dead, it was the fixed resolution of
our explorer to find him. We are, therefore,
strong in the hope that before long we shall
not only hear again from our expedition, but
hear that it has returned, or is on the way
back to Zanzibar with DR.. Livingstone, alive
and hearty. We hope so; BECAUSE from
several parties from Ujiji, our commissioner
at Unyanyembe was assured that the Doctor
was still alive-"an old man and very fat"
And here we may say that, under the pro-
lection of the enlightened Ismail Pacha, of
Egypt, we have recently detailed an expe-
rienced traveller from Cairo up the Nile, to
communicate, If possible, with Sir Samuel
Bakers expedition, or the remains of it,
Our readers will remember that some twelve
months ago, more or less, the bold and enter
prising Egyptian Khedive despatched Sir
Samuel, the most famous of all African ex-
porers, up the Nile, at the head of splen-
didly equipped expedition of five thousand
men, with large amount of supplies of all
kinds, borne upon the backs of thousand
camels, and with several light steel steam
boats, built in England expressly for this
expedition, and so constructed that they
could be taken to pieces at the foot of a
cataract or impossible rapid, carried by
camels to the head of it, and then put to-
gether again, and steamed ahead in the
ascent Of the river. The object of this expe-
dition was the annexation Of the whole
Valley Of the Nile, to and including its great
equatorial lakes, to the Egyptian viceroyalty.
Recently we have had painful rumors that Sir
Samuel Baker, away up among the savage
tribes of the Upper Nile, had been mortally
wounded In mutiny among his men. 1t will
be the object of our commissioner from Cairo
to find out the truth or falsehood of these re-
ports. If false, he will endeavor to Join
Baker, and in the event Of the prosecution of
the expedition to the great lake, Albert
Nyanza, Baker may be brought within reach
of Livingstone and may capture him and
bring him back into the living world again.
We have familiarized our readers with the
lofty table lands, the towering mountains
and deep and fearful chasms of Abyssinia
country in these respects resembling our sky
scrapng Rocky Mountain Territory of Colo
RADIO; we have sketched the present condition
OF the ruins of those ancient imperial cities of
Babylon and Nineveh, and the traditional site,
with its present Arab huts and naked Arab
children, where our first parents tasted the
forbidden fruit; we have reproduced the
spiendors OF the Arabian Nights in our descrip-
tons OF the Oriental Inequalities showered
upon the Empress Eugene at the opening of
the Suez Canal by the Khedive. and on the
Bosphorus by the Sultan; we have piven in
detail the royal honors shown to Mr.. Seward
by Ismail Pacha, and the romantic tour Of the
Sage of Auburn from Alaska to the "Halls of
the MOutezumas" In hrief iha roodo.. RI