Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-07-26

IONDON, Jul} %.
James Gordon Bennett, Esq;
Sir: beg leave to transmit to you the follow
ing important and most highly interesting spe-
cial communication, received in this city from
DR.. Livingstone by SANKEY'S mail from Africa,
conveying the thanks Of the explorer to the edi-
tor of the New York Herald for the successful
organization of an American search expedition,
which has placed the long lost traveller again in
commandments civilization.
Very respectfully,
(Signed) GEORGE w. HosMER,
Agent n. Y Herald, at London.
LIvINGsToNE's LETTER OF THANKS.
UJIJI ON TANGANYIKI,l
EAST AFRICA, November, 1871. (
James Gordon Bennett, Jr., Esq:
Ny Dear Sir 1T is in general somewhat diff
cult to write to one we have never seen; it feels
so much like addressing an abstract idea. But
the presence of your representative, Mr.. II. NJ
Stanley, in this distant region, takes away the
strangeuess should otherwise have felt, and in
writing TO thank you for the extreme kindness
that prompted you to send him. feel quite at
home. If l explain the forom condition in
which he found me, you will easily perceive that
have good reason to use very strong expires
sons of gratitude
came TO UjUi off a tramp of between 800 or
800 miles, beneath blazing vertical sun, hav-
ing been baffled, worried, defeated, and forced
to return when almost in sight of the end of the
geographical part of my mission, by
number of half caste modern slaves,
sent to me from Zanzibar, instead
pf Ebn 10 ,ksn
by the woeful sights l had seen of mans
inhumanity to man, reached and told on the
bodily frame and depressed it beyond measure.
thought was dying on my feet. 1t is not too
much to say that almost every step of my
weary, sultry way was in pain and | reached
Ujiji mere "ruckle" of bones. There found
that some five hundred pounds sterling worth
of goods, which had ordered from Zanzibar,
had unaccountably been entrusted to a drunken
half-caste Moslem tailor, who, after squander-
ing them for sixteen months on the way to
Ujiji, finished up by selling off all that re-
manned for slaves and ivory for himself. He
had "divined" on the koran and found | was
dead. He had also written to the
governor of Unyanyembe that he had
sent slaves after me to Manyema, who
returned and reported my decease, and
begged permission to sell off the few
goods his drunken appetite had spared. He
however, knew perfectly well from men who
had seen me that | was alive and waiting for
the goods and men. But as for morality he is
evidently an idiot, and there being no law here
except that of the dagger or musket, | had to
sit down in great weakness, destitute of every
thing save few barter clothes and beads which
| had taken precauton to leave here in case of
extreme need.
The near prospect of beggary among Ujiiians
made me miserable. | could not despair, be-
cause laughed so much at friend who on
reaching the mouth Of the Zambezi said he was
tempted to despair on breaking the photograph
of his wife, We could have no success after
that. Afterward the idea of despair had to me
such strong smack Of the ludicrous that it
was out of the question.
Well, when had got to about the lowest
verge, vague rumorS Of an English visitor
reached me. | thought of myself as the man
who went down from Jerusalem to Jericho.
But neither priest, Levite nor Samaritan could
possibly 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, Gan Englishman COM
ing, | see him" and off he darted to meet him.
An American flag, the first ever seen in these
parts at the head of a caravan, told me the ma
tonality of the stranger am as cold and nom
demonstrative as we islanders are usually re-
puted to be, but your kindness made my frame
thrill. 1t was indeed overwhelming, and | said
in my soul that the richest blessings descend
from the highest on you and yours. The news
Mr.. Stanley had to tell was thrilling. The
mighty political changes on the continent, the
success OF the Atlantic cable, the election of
Gen. Grant, and many other topics, riveted my
attention for days together, and had an imme-
diate and beneficial effect on my health.
had been without news from Ii ONE for years
save what could CLEAN from few Saturday
Reviews and Punch of 1868. The appetite re-
vived and in a week began to feel strong again
Mr.. Stanley brought most kind and encourage
ing dispatch from Lord Clarendon, whose loss
sincerely deplore, the first have received from
the foreign office since 1866, and information
that the British government had kindly sent
thousand pounds sterling to my aid up to
his arrival | was not aware of any pecunary
aid. came unsalared, but this want is now
happily repaired, and ! am anxious you and all
my friends should know that, though uncheered
by letter, | have stuck to the task to which
my friend Sir Roderck Murchison set me, with
John Bullish tenacity, believing that all would
come out right at last.
The watershed of South Central Africa is
over seven hundred miles in length. The foun-
tains thereon are almost innumerable That is,
it would take mans lifetime to count them.
From the watershed they converge into four
large rivers, and these again into two
mighty streams in the great Nile valley,
which begins in from ten degrees
to twelve degrees south latitude 1t
was long ere light dawned on the ancient
problem and gave me a clear idea of the drain
age. had to feel my way, and every step of
the way, and was generally cropping in the dark
for who cared where the rivers ran? We drank
our ill and let the rest run by. The Portuguese
who visited Cazembe asked for slaves and ivory.
and heard of nothing else. asked about the
waters, questioned and cross questioned, until |
was almost afraid of being set down as afflicted
with hydrocephalus.
My last work, in which had been greatly
hindercd from want of suitable attendants, was
following the centrative of drainage down
through the country of the cannibals, called |
Manyuema or, shortly, Manyema. This line of |
drainage has four large lakes in ii. The fourth |
Twas near when obliged to turn. It is from one |
to three miles broad, and never can DO reached
at any point or at any time of year. The two |
western drain the Lupra or Barte, Frere's |
river flows into ii at Lake KamolOndo.