The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-05-21

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Complete Success.
A despatch Especial to the HERALD and
printed in full in another column) gives us
further details of Mr.. Stanley's movements,
and leaves us little room to doubt that Dr.
Livingstone is alive that Mr. Stanley has
found him, and that thus the expedition has
been crowned with complete success. The
despatch was sent from Zanzibar to Alden, and
was transmitted thence to London by tele-
graph. The statement is in the highest de-
gree encouraging. The burden of the story is
that Stanley had found Livingstone, and that
the two explorers were together at Ujiji.
1t appears from the despatch that wealthy
and powerful chief Of the Ujiji Arabs, by
name Seyd ben Maid, had left Ujiji on the
18th of January, and had arrived at Unyan-
yembc, the halfway station between Ujiji and
the coast, on the 9Th of February. AT Unyan-
yembe he announced to Sheikh ben Nasib, an
influential chief of the district and well known
at Zanzibar, that the american gentleman, !"
Stanley, was at Ujiji when he left, and that
he had been there for at least
month Stanley, it seems had
reached Ujiji by circuitous route,
having found it necessary, in consequence OF
the war raging among the native tribes, to
avoid the caravan path. When Stanley ar
rived Livingstone was absent, but it was
known that his camp was pitched at Mayemba,
a place about twenty miles distant and stu
ated midway between Lakes Tanganyika and
Victoria Nyanza Stanley, however, had not
been long at Ujiji when Livingstone returned
from the expedition, and when Seyd ben
were living together. Such was the story told
by Seyd ben Maid to Sheikh ben Nasib.
Sheikh ben Nasib has, it appears, brother in
Zanzibar by the name Of Abdallah Aware
of the anxiety which existed in Zanzibar re-
garding both Livingstone and Stanley, Sheikh
ben Nasib entrusted the important news to
faithful slave by name Sa'eed and sent him off
without delay to his brother Abdallah at Fan
zibar. So eed, who left Unyamyembe on the
Sth Of February arrived ut Zanzibar on the
I'd of April, and was at once brought by Alb
dallah to the house of the HERALD correspond
ent. The despatch explains why the original
bearer Of the news, Seyd ben Maid, aid not
bring letters from Livingstone and Stanley.
It had not been his intention when he set out
from Ujiji to go SO far as Unyamyembe His
original purpose did not render such visit
necessary; but having found himself SO near
he concluded to pay the town a
visit, and hence the welcome news.
The despatch is infinitely circumsiantial;
and while it satisfactorily explains its source
it also confirms the intelligence conveyed by
bay, and transmitted thence by telegraph to
London and New York at the commencement
of the present month. One of our first de-
spatches stated that when the steamship Ably
dos, which took out the English Search Expe-
dition, left Zanzibar, u report prevailed that
STANLEY, the commander of the New YORK
HERALD Expeditionary Search Corps, was with
Livingstone at Ujiji in the month OF Janu-
ary." A few days later, May S, we printed
communication from our London correspond
ent giving an account of the proceedings of
the monthly meeting of the Royal Geographic
cal Society, held on the 22d of April, and con-
tanning two letters from DR.. Kirk, the British
Consul at Zanzibar These letters had been
read at the meeting Of the Society, and both
of them made special reference to Livingstone
and Stanley. DR.. Kinks second letter was
dated February IA. 1t was not unnatural for
some to imagine that if Stanley had found
Livingstone in January DR.. Kirk should have
been aware of the fact so late Us the l4th Of
February. AT that date, however, the Doc
tor could only say, There have been many
rumors, both concerning Mr.. Stanley and the
Arabs, but nothing concerning DR.. Living
stone and Ujij AS we remarked at the time,
the extreme difficulty of travelling in that
country at that season Of the year, in conse-
quence of the heavy rains and the swamps
steaming under tropical sun, was sufficient
explanation why DR.. Kirk might have heard
nothing of Stanley's success when he wrote, on
been in possession Of the gladstone intelli-
gence towards the end of April, when the
Abydos left Zanzibar for Bombay. 1t now
appears that matters were entirely as we were
at first encouraged to believe and in perfect
harmony with our original reports. Let it be
noted that Seyd ben Maid, who conveyed the
Intelligence from Ujiji to Unyanyambe left
Ujiji on the 18th Of January When he left
Livingstone and Stanley had met, and the two
white men had taken up their residence to-
gether Then, again, the slave, Sa'eed, the
second bearer Of the intelligence, who left
Unyanyambe on the 9Th Of February, arrived
at Zanzibar on the Cd of April. Our original
reports are thus confirmed to the very letter.
If this later report be true, and it is difficult to
conceive how it can be called in question,
STANLEY was with Livingstone at Ujiji in the
month of January and when the Abydos
left for Bombay the report which had been
brought by the slave Sa'eed to Abdallah was
freely circulated in Zanzibar. Of the safety Of