The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-08-09


ing DR.. Kirk and Captain Tucker and another gen.
tleman from the Columbine, and Pere Homer, Su-
perior Of the French mission left for Kikoko, frst
camp on the Unyanyembe road beyond the
Knigani River; or, In other words, the second
camp for the up caravans rom Bagomoyo.
Pere Homer returned to Bagomoyo the evening OF
that same day; but Messrs. Kirk and Tucker the
French Consul, NJ Diviane, and, believe, the sur
geon Of the Columbine, remained behind that they
might enjoy the sport which the left bank Of the
Knigani offered them.
HUNTING But NOT SEARCHING.
A COED deal OF ammunition was wasted, heard,
by the naval onicers because, 'you know, they
have only pea rines,n so said DR.. Kirk to me. But
Dr. Kirk, the companion Of Livingstone and some
thing of sportsman am told baggcd one hartbeest
and one girane only in the four or five days the
party was out. M. Diviane, or Divlen, hurried
back to Bagom0yo and Zanzibar with
piece OF the aforesaid hartbeest, that the
white people on that island might
enjoy the sight and hear how the wondrous AMI
nal fell before the unerring rife OF that learned
Snowman Of wild beasts, DR.. John Kirk. Snowman
Of wild beasts did l say9 Yes. Wen ! adhere to
it and repeat it, But to proceed. At the end of q
week or whereabouts the party-were said to have
arrived at the French mission again. rode up
from the camp Of the HERALD Expedition to see
them. They were sitting down to dinner, and We
all heard the graphic yarn about the death OF the
hartbeest II was fine animal they all agreed.
"But, Doctor, did you not have something elsef"
Question by leader Of HERALD Expedition.)
"N0l we saw lots OF game, you know-girafe
zebra, wild boar, &c.-but they were made 80 wild,
you know, by the firing Of pea ries by the officers,
that Immediately one began to stalk them of they
went. would not have got the hartbeest If l had
not gone alone"
Well, next morning DR.. Kirk and reverend
! padre came to visit the camp OF the HERALD Ex-
petition, partook of cup Of tea in my tent then
| went to see Moussoud about DR.. Livingstone's
things. They were told that the caravan had gone
several days before. Satisfied that nothing more
could be done, after de,euner at the French Mis-
sion, DR.. Kirk about eleven A. M. went on board
the Columbine. About hafpast three p. M. the
Columbine steamed for Zanzibar.
FALSE REPORT.
| On the 18th OF March your correspondent re-
| turned to Zanzibar to settle up the last accounts
connected with the expedition. While at Zanzibar
your correspondent heard that the report had in
dustriously been spread among those interested in
Livingstone, the traveller, that DR.. Kirk had hur-
ried OF the Livingstone caravan at once, and that
| he had accompanied the said caravan beyond the
Knigani, and that your correspondent could not
| possibly get any pagazis whatever, as he (Dr.
Kirk) had secured them all. wondered,
marvellous, were it not opposed to fact.
! Livingstonc's caravan needed but thirty.three
men; the HERALD Expedition required 140 men, all
| told. Before the Livingstone caravan had started
the first caravan Of the HERALD Expedition had
preceded them by four days. BY the 10Th Of March
Ill men were secured for the HERALD Expedition,
and for the remainder donkeys were substituted.
| no3 PROVING 1T FALSE.
| June % saw us at Unyanyembe, and there heard
the reports Of the chiefs of the several caravans Of
the HERALD Expedition. Livingstone's caravan
was also there, and the men in charge were inter-
rogated by me with the following questions
Q. When did You see Dr.. Kirk last .
| A. LIST of November, 1870.
Q. Where
| A. At Zanzibar.
| Q. Did you not see him at Bagom0y02
A. No; but we heard that he had been at
Bagomoyop
| Q. Is this true; quite, quite true
| A. Quito true, wallah 10y 0od).
The story is told. This Is the Casa case, as
understand 1t to be, OF the British Public VS.. John
Kirk. Does it not appear to you that Dr. John
Kirk never had word to say, never had word to
write to his old friend Dr. Livingstone all the time
| from LIST November, 1870 to about the 18th Febru-
ary 1871; that during all this period OF three and
| half months DR.. John Kirk showed great unkind-
ness, unfriendlness towards the old traveller, his
| former companion, in not pushing the caravan
| carrying supplies to the man with whom all who
have read of him sympathize 30 much2 Does it not
| seem to you, as it does to me, that had DR..
John Kirk bestirred himself in his grand character
Of English "Balyuz"-a noble name and great title
out here in these lands-that that small caravan OF
| thirty-three men might have been despatched
within week SO after their arrival at Bag0mOyo,
by which it would have arrived here in Unyan-
yembe long before Mirambos war broke out' This
war broke out June 49, 1871.
| THE CASE AGAINST KIRK.
Well, leave the case in your hands, assured that
| your intelligence, your natural power OF discrimi-
nation your fine sense of justice, viii enable you TO
decide whether this man DR.. John Kirk professed
friend Of Livingstone has shown his friendship for
Livingstone IN leaving his three and half
months at Bagomoyo; whether, when he went over
j to Bagomoyo in the character Of Snowman Of wild
beasts to crafty the sporting instincts OF the off,
| GERS of Her Britannia Majesty's ship Coiumbine,
did he show any very kindly feeling to the hero
traveller when he left the duty Of looking up that
caravan of the Doctors till the last thing the
programme
uHYAMwEZI
Unyamwez is romantic name. II is Land Of
the Noon" rendered into English-cs romantic and
sweet in Klnyamwezi as any that STEAMBOAT or
Ispahan can boast is to a Turk or Persian. The
attraction however, to a European lies only in the
name. There is nothing Of the mystic, nothing OF
the poetica nothing OF ehe romantic in the country
! Of Unyamwezi ] shudder at the sound OF the
name. It is pregnant in it's every syllable to
me. Whenever l think OF the word imme-
diateIy come thoughts OF colycinth, rhubarb,
calomel, tartar emetic, ipecacuanha and quinine
into my head, and feel quamish about the gastric
regions and wish were q thousand miles away
rromit. II look abroad over the country see the
most inane and the most prosaic country one could
ever imagine. 1t is the most unlikely country to
European for settlement 1t is so repusive owing
to the notoriety 1t has gained for its fevers. A
white missionary would shrink back with horror at