The New York herald., 1872-08-20

quoted from regarding the success OF Mr.. Stanley
the HERALD African explorer, IN his search for Dr.
From the Manchester Courier, August 81
The dispatches which we published in our i'm
preston yesterday must be- and will be with in
hnte satisfaction by the public accepted as conclu
sive evidence on the great Livingstone-Stanley
question. Stanley has discovered Livingstone, and
there every reason to believe that Livingstone Is
the high way to the discovery OF the sources Of
the historical Nile. Let US hasten to orier our
hearty congratulations to the gallant and plucky
correspondent OF the NEW YORK HERALD who sue
ceeded where our own search expedition so signay
Jailed, and who succeeded because he set about his
enterprise in manner exactly the reverse OF
that in which the pioneers OF the Royal
Geographical Society were allowed to do. 1t was,
perhaps natural that the good news which Mr..
Stanley brought with him should be received or re-
garded at first with caution and even, as regards
some OF its details, with sentiments closely border
ing on scepticsm. Was 1t not too good to be trueY
IL the great explorer were really alive had sur
vived all the trials and dangers, the perils by land,
the peris by water and chiefly the perils to which
he was perpetually exposed at the hands OF a pop
ulation whose cowardice it seems can only be
equalled by their treachery, should we not nave
had tIdngs OF nm peIoreY was t
OF his exploits and his whereabouts should be
conveyed to us, not by compatriot OF
Scotchman, but by an American Of the Americanse
1t certainly would neither have been conceivable
nor possible If our government had not displayed
in the matter all the unloyely features and tile ped
ding parsimony of q petty tradesman-had not
shown itself unable or afraid to award the slightest
energy and heroism which are unsurpassed IN the
annals of chivary itself.
Quod minime reris Graia pandetur alb urbe;
and DR.. Livingstone, we may be quite sure, was as
much surprised when he knew that the first white
man who had rendered him soace or help was a
citizen Of the states, as ever the Trojan chief
could have been when he learned from the lips OF
the Cuma'an Sibyl that 1t was Greek city which
would first. In the ages yet to be- come to his
rescue AS the good news was startling In itself.
SO did the language in which it was conveyed
Earring strangeness to our feelings. Mr.. Stanleys
letters have from the first had the true sensational
ring Of the Transatlantic newspaper correspond
ent-a ring not unsuccessfuly reproduced by our
distinguished radical and ministerial contempo-
politan Journalism, whose goal and prize was the
interviewing OF Mr.. Stanley at Marseilles But the
odd thing has been that the Literary style OF Mr.
style about as opposite to the customary tone Of
the Doctors composition as leading article In the
Daily Telegraph is to an essay OF Bacon. Even IN
these indisputabe authentic dispatches to the For
eign ONCE there ID noticeable bosterOus hiarity
at times which ill-harmonizes with what we
know or remember Of Livngstone's character
They are indeed "tamener" Itself, as an American
editor would estimate tameness when compared
with the letters to the NEW YORK HERALD, but they
still abound in passages which are conceived in
precisely similar spirit and often couched in lam
guage which would have commanded the approval
Of Mr. James Gordon Bennett himself or even OF his
late lamented father.
without nanirng into the literary Influences ,Ss
tribes OF Central Africa are likely to exercise, or
the exhilarating effects of Mr.. Staney's society
rs they may be reasonably expected to be dis
played in the composition OF letters addressed to
New York newspaper or to the Foreign once
ITSELF let us endeavOr to form an approximately
accurate idea of the work which Livingstone has
accomplished and OF the work which there yet
remains Ior him to do And here we .r. may remark
all the particulars of LivlngstOne's progress which
they are likely for a long while to have-till, in
or another investigator ndclatigabe and as
snccessful as Mr.. Stanley goes in quest OF him.
Doctor to be read at the forthcoming meeting Of
the British Association at Brighton. These may
give additional details full OF scientific significance
and an esoteric interest. But they can do nothing
more. We know in the words OF Livingstone him
sell all that can be either interesting, Or we might
add, intelligibe, to the general public This infor.
nation was first conveyed to us In the letters OF
Mr.. Stanley and In the communications OF DR..
as tey s IN tne IN NGw
more staid and sober form, given us in the
dispatches OF Livingstone to the Foreign ONCE.
We shall not here repeat the tale OF the supreme
and continuous. dangers as narrated by the great
explorer himself, to which he has been exposed
during the six long years that have elapsed since
England, Europe and civilization lost sight of him
his miraculous hair-breadth escapes, the frequent
attempts on his life, his perpetually recurring de-
sertiOn by the native slaves who as the Doctor BIT
fery complains himself were sent to assist and res
cue him, instead of the free men whom he really
wanted, his wearying scknesses and his other
countless, innumerable trials. Any one of these
sngy would have been enough to deter and dis
courage spirit less intrepid and devoted than Liv-
ingstone's That he should have triumphed over
them collectively constitutes feat OF which not
merely England and scotland, but humanity itself,
we published yesterday contain the intel
ligcnce or the hint OF two grand discov
tance to geographical science. In the first place
DIR. Livingstone has contributed TO our knowledge
OF the map OF Africa by ascertaining that this mys
terious and gigantic continent, Of which Pliny
wrote that it was ALWAYS producing something
new, y is watered by third cline OF drainage"
OF whose existence no geographer had previously
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lakes and stately streams stretching far to the
west OF Lake Ianganyika. In the second place,
DIR. Livingstone, If he Is not yet actually able to
lay his finger on the first fountains OF the Nile
to say certainly where they areis at least able to
say where they are not lie has conclusively dis
proved the coniectures and surmises of those who
have preceded him, and he Is on the high road to
conclusivey and practically, we see no reason to
doubt, proving the theory which he was advancing
with confidence OF the origin OF the mystical river
OF the Pharaohs. IL Is somewhat strange-nay
does II not almost read as the veritable irony
histOryY-that Livingstone, from actual and prof
longed experience OF the places themselves, should
1ix the origin OF the Nile exactly where 1t was fixed
twenty centuries ago by Ptolemy--the bases OF the
mountains OF the moon. ''Ihs," writes Living
stone, ''s unquestionably where the springs OF the
Nile do arise, and this is Just what Ptoemy put
down, and is true geography" AS yet, that is to
Say In March last, Livingstone has traced what he
nrmly believes TO he and what, doubtless, Is the
nascent stream within $50 miles OF the spot where
II assumes It's historical name and character The
task which now awaits him is to complete the links
In this chain OF investigation. Humanity speaking
we believe he is certain to this and the chances
are that when we next hear OF Livingstone he will
have arrived, lonowlng the Nile course into Egypt,
and will have joined forces with Sir samuel Baker
We forbear 10 expatiate upon the enormous gains
to geographical science-nay, to every science OF
which man has heard the magnificent triumph of
human effort and energy which the fact OF those
two discoveries contributes 1t simply comes to
this We shall not merely have to draw out the
map OF Africa anew, but we shall be able lor the
first time in the history OF man 10 draw IL out In
anything like its integrity at all. Our readers will
have already perused with profound interest the
accounts OF the other discoveries OF Livingstone
which we printed yesterday-hs revelations OF the
abominable slave trade OF Central AFRICA and the
canniballstic tribes. In the present state Of en-
pineering science the construction or railway
over the heart OF the African desert Is not
merely not an impossible but q probable contln-
Rency. Two seas may thus be unted two c0ntl-
nents joined. should the next generation ever
witness this result II will be entirely due TO the
labors OF Livingstone, The Imagination recoils
dizzy from the enort TO look down the intermnable