Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1872-08-06
DT- ElVinSsios.n's Letic-s &c
Games GaEdoH Bennett.
Central Africa.
LETTERS FROM DIR. LIVINGSTON.

LETTERS FROM DIR. LIVINGSTON.
NEW YoRK, July 25.-The Herald
received 10y cable tonight the follow
ing letters from Or. Livingstone, d.
rected to James Gordon Bennett,
which reached London in the Stanley
| mail:
LIVINGSTONE THANKS BENNETT.
UJIJI, on TANGANIIlA East Africa, !
November, 1871. !
ydme9 Gordon Bennett, dr., lisa:
Ny DEAR SIR-It is in general
somewhat difficult to write to one we
have never seen, it feels 50 much like
addressing an abstrict idea; but the
presence of your representative, Mr.
ii. NJ. Stanley, in This region takes
away the stTangeness | should other
wise have felt in writing to thank YOU
for the extreme kindness that prOmD-
led You to send him. / feel quite at
home. lei explain the foTlorn condi-
ton in which he found me. YOU will
easily perceive that | have good reason
to use strong expressions OF gratitude.
HOW LIvINGSTOyE WAS BAFFLED.
Ieame to Ujiji, "a trip of between
four and five hundred miles, beneath
a blazing vertical sun, having been
balIied, worried, defeated and forced to
Ieturn when almost in sight of the
end of the geographical part of nay
mission by Il number Of half caste
Moslem slaves sent to. me from Xanzi-
bar, instead of men. The sore heart,
made still sorer by the woeful sights /
had seen of mans inhumanity, reac-
ted and told on my bodily frame and
| depressed it beyond measure. l
thought was
DYING ON MY FEET.
1t is not too much to say that l
took almost every step of the weary,
sultry way on foot, and [ reached Uii-
ii mere rackle of bones. There l
found that some five hundred pounds
sterling worth of goods, which | had
ordered from Zanzibar, had been un-
'sccountably entrusted to a drunken
man,
A HALF CASTE MOSLEI TAILOR,
who, after squandering them for six
teen moIths on the way to Ujiji, fin
shed up by selling OF the remainder
for slaves and ivory for himself. he
had OWNED on the Koran and found |
was dead. He had also written to the
Governor of Unyanyembe that he had
sent slaves after me to Manyama,
who returned and reported my de-
cease, and begged permission to sell
off the few goods his drunken appe-
tIte had spared. lie, however, knew
perfectly we'll from men who had seen
me that | was alive and waiting for
goods and men; but as fer morality,
he is evidently an idiot. And there
being no law except that OF the dagger
or musket, had to.sit down in great
weakness. destitute Of everything ex-
cept few barter clothes and beads
which had taken the plecaution to
leave here in case OF extreme need
The near
PROSPECT OF BEGGARY
among the Ujijians made me miseIa-
bic. / could not despair, because I
laughed so much at q friend who, on
reaching the mouth of the ZGmbeZi,
said that he was tempted to despair
on breaking the photograph Of his
wife. and we could have no success al
ter that. AfteFWaFd the idea Of de-
spair had to me such strong smacS Of
righteousness that ii was out of the
question. Well, when 1 got to about
the lowest verge, vague TumOrs of En-
g!ish visitors reached me. | thought
of myself as a man who went down
from Jerusalem to Jericho. tAlt neither
priest, Levite nor Samaritan would
pass my way. Yet the good Samari-
tan was close at hand; and one of my
people rushed up at the top of his
speed. and in great excitement gasped
out,
''AS ESGLIsHGIAN Is COMING!
I see him." and off he darted to meet
him. The American fl&g, the first ev-
er seen in these parts, at the head Of a
caravan, toll me the nationality OF the
stranger. lam as cold and B0n-dem-
onstretive as we ISLANDERS ara usually
reported 10 be-; but your kindlless
made my frame thfilE 1t was indeed
overwhelming and'I said in my soul,
"Let Christ's blessings descend from
the highest on you and yonrs.
THE NEWS
which Stanley had to tell me was
thrilling. Mighty political changes
on the continent. the success of the
Atlantic. cables, the election Of Gen.