Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-07-31
DIR, Livingstone.
AN INTERESTING RECITAL OF FEW OF TIE
TRAVELLERS ADVENTURES.


LONDON, July IS.
James Gordon Bennett, Esq:
Dear Sir-I beg leave to transmit to you
the following important and most highly in
teresting special communication received in
this city from DR.. Livingstone by Mr..
SANKEY'S mail from Africa, conveying the
thanks of the explorer to the editor of the
New York Herald for the successful organiza-
ton of the American search expedition, which
has placed the long lost traveller again in
communication with civilization.
Very respectfully,
(Signed) GEORGE W. HOsMER,
Agent N Y. Herald, London.
LIvINGsroSE's LETTER OF THANKS.
UJIJI, ON THE TANGANYIKA, East Africa,
November, 1871.
James Gordon Bennett, Jr., Esq:
My Dear Sir-It is generally somewhat
difficult 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 strangeness l 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 explain the
forlorn condition in which he found me, you
easily perceive that have good reason to use
very bLTODR e4pECsSlOu5 VI EIdLlIuuC-
j came to UJJi on tramp of between 400
and 500 miles, beneath blazing vertical sun,
having been bafIled, worried, defeated and
forced to retreat, when almost in sight of
the end of the geographical part of my mis-
sion, by a number of half caste Moslem
slaves, sent to mt from Ztnziba instead of
men. The sore heart, made still sorer by
woful sights had seen of mans iuhu manity
to man, reached and told upon 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 the
weary, sultry way was IN pain, and l reached
Ujiji a mere q" ruckle " of bones There |
found that some five hundred pounds ster
ling worth of goods which | had ordered
from Zanzibar had unaccOuntably been en-
trusted to drunken, half caste MOslem tailor
who after squandering them for sixteen
months on the way to Ujji, finished by sell
ing off all that remained 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 the slaves after Manyewa,
who returned and reported my decease, and
begged permission to sell off the few goods
his drunken appetite had spared. He, how
ever, knew perfectly, 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 dagger or musket,
had to sit down in great weakness, destitute
Of everything save few barter cloths and
beads, which | had taken the precautiOn TO
leave here in case of extreme need. The
near prospect OF beggary among the Jzzians
made me miserable l could not despair
because | laughed so much at a friend, who,
on reaching the mouth of the Zlwbezi, said
he was tempted to despair on breaking the
photograph Of his wife We could have no
success alter that Afterward the idea of
despair had to me such strong smack Of the
ludIcrous that it was out of the question.
Well, when l 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 j err
icho, but neither priest, Levite, or Samari-
tan could possibly pass my way. Yet the
good Samaritan was close a hand, and one
OF my people rushed up at the top of his
speed, and IN great excitement gasped out,
- An Euglishman coming; see him, and
off he darted to meet him. An American
Dag. the first ever seen in these parts. at the
head of a caravan, told me the nationality
Of the stranger. | am so cold and monde
mOnstratlve, as We Islanders are usually re
ported to be, but your kindness makes my
frame 10 LlIll. II was luQcEQ ONGrA IlGt =.
and | said in my SOUL let the richest blessing
descend from the highest on you and yours.
The news Nj. Stanley had to tell was
thrilling. The mighty political changes on
the continent, the success of the Atlantic
cables, the election of Gen. Grant and many
other topics riveted my attention tor days
together, and had an Immediate and bene-
iclal effect on my health. | had been with
out news from home for years, save what /
could CLEAN from a few Saturday RerIarS
and Punch of 1865 My appetite revived
and in a week / began 10 feel strong again
MIR. Stanley brought most kind and en-
cOuragIng dispatches from Lord Clarendon
whose loss | sincerely deplore, the first
have received from the foreign Office since
1865, and Information that the British Gov
crnment had kindly sent a thousand pounds
sterling to my aid. Up to his arrival ] was
not aware OF any pecuniary aid. | cane
unealaried, but this want Is now happily re-
paired and | am anxious YOU and all my
1 friends should know that though unchcereI
/ by letter have stuck to the task my friend
SIT RoderIck Murchlson, set me with - John
Bullish - tenacity, believing that all would
come right after all. The watershed of South
Central Africa is over 700 miles in length
The fountains thereon are innumerabIe
/ That Is, it would take a mans lifetime 70
count them. From the watershed they con-
verge into the four large rivers, and the e
again into two mighty streams in the great
Nile Valley, which begins in 10 degrees
to II degrees south latitude. 1t was long
ere light dawned on the ancient problem and
gave a clear idea Of the drainage. | had to
feel my way and was generally cropping in
the dark for who cared where the river ran
We drank our fill and let the rest run by
The Portuguese, who visited Casembe asked
/ C,r nd and no ri rg
else | asked about the waite questioned
and ss-questiOned until | was almost
afraid of being set down afil cted with
hydrocephalus. My last work, in which |
had been greatly hindered from want Of
suitable attendants, was following the cen
trail hue of drainage drawn through the
country Of the cannibals called Malryema
This line of drainage has four large lakes in
it. The fourth l was near when obliged to
turn 1t Is from one to three miles broad
and never can be reached at any point or at
any time of year. The two western drain
the Iupiera or Bartle Freres The river
flows in it at Lake Kamolondo. Then the
great river Lomain flows through Lake Lin
coin into it too, and seems to form the west
ern arm of the Nile on which Retherick
traded Now | know about six hundred
miles of the watershed and unfortunately
the seventh hundred is the most interesting OF
the whole, for in it, if | am not mistaken,
! four fountains arise from an earthern mound,
and the last of the four become at no great
distance off large river. Two of these run
north to Egypt, Lupicra and Lorraine,
| and two run South into Ethiopia as the
Liambia or Upper Seambezi and the Kafneane,
These are not the Nile mentioned by the
Secretary of Minerva in the city of S4is to
to Herodotus. have heard of them so often
and at great distances off that cannot doubt
their existence, and in spite of the longing
| for home that SEXES me every time | think
1 of nv family, | wish TO finish up by their