The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-07-02


hc man, one volunteer and two or three employees
to work the boat on the rivers. With their usual
readiness the wealthy people OF England had sub
scrtbed sufficient sum to cover all and any ex-
penses that might be incurred during the search
after Livingstone.
On the 18th July 1867 the little expedition arrived
safely at Table Bay, and on the 25th of the same
month Her Majesty's steamship Petrol, which con-
veyed the party, dropped anchor at the mouth Of
the Zambezi. In the instructions addressed to Mr..
E. d. Young, the leader Of this Livingstone Search
Expedition" Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, the
President of the Royal Geographical Society, stated
tersely and explicitly what was expected Of them,
thus:-
Ffrst-That the council OF the Society had agreed
upon sending an expedition towards Lake Nyassa,
to ascertain the truth or falsehood of report re-
speeding the fate OF Dr. Livingstone, and that they
had chosen him (Mr. Young to command it,
SecondTHe was to proceed to the northern n
neighborhood of which it was supposed that posi-
tive information could be obtained respecting the
movements or fate Of the Doctor
Thtrd-As he went along he was to notice what
ever was interesting In the country, but was not
to let anything lead him from the great object OF
Fourth-As the latest intelligence Of DR.. Living
stone was that he had been at village between
iorty ana hity miles to the northwest OF the head
OF the lake, where he was said to have been muir
dered by q tribe of the Mazitus he was to
proceed towards that neighborhood weigh
well every item of Information received, with the
various motives which would be likely to prompt
the Europeans effete Portuguese and natives who
live to give such information. He was also to en-
deavor to obtain as many relics possible OF Liv-
lngstone, and to more especially try to see any
article that the Doctor would not be likely to part
with voluntarily.
UP THE zAMBEzI.
With such explicit instructions there could be
possibility of MISUNDERSTANDING On the Sth of
August, 1867 the little steel boat named the Search
was pointed up the Zambezi River. and started ON
hnr
the peoples On che European and American CONT
nents.
MRS. LIvINGSTONES GRAVE.
1t is unnecessary to enter into the details OF her
voyage, as they foreign to the purpose of this
letter. But may mention that the grave of Mrs.
| Livingstone, the faithful, courageous wife of a
noble man, was visited at Shupanaga and fixed up
| appropriately. Along both banks Of the Zambezi
the dark natives Of the country ocked see their
friends, the English, with many anxious inquiries
as to the whereabouts of the "Father' Dr. Living
| stone). The good seed sOwn by this eminent mis-.
sionary had fallen ground where it brought forth
| fruit abundantly. Much evil had been abolished
and blessed tranquility had reigned in consequence
in many portions of the continent which he had
visited Much of the slave trade had diminished
in short, Livingstone had morally revoutlonized
the country.
| sTANLEy's RESOLVE AND REASONS.
Your correspondent is thus particular in his de-
scpions as having published the letter containing
the story Of his death, I feel 1t incumbent me
to dsprOve 1t II possible, and cannot do so with
better success than by producing before the reader
such statements as have been made by Mr. Young
and other subsequent information.
On the 4th Of September the leader of the boat
Search first heard of white man having been seen
at Pamfunda on Lake Pamalomb, and that he had
| boy- V-ifh n Duf 1oca DO for
south Of Lake Nyassa it was barely possible that he
had drited far from the destination agreed upon
before the Geographical Society.
On the 18th Of September Mr. Young arrived at
Lake PamalOmbi and became convinced that the
white man seen south Of Lake Nyassa was Living
stone himself. Livingstone had not gone north
ward as it was expected he would, but to make his
travels and researches complete he had proceeded
southwark Thus 1t was the Doctor was found out
in several ways-by his naval cap, his mustache, his
size, the color of his hair and the goodness which
never left him. The two boys also who accompa-
MED him were instantly identified by their names,
which the old chief remembered as Chuma and
Wako short for WakotanD. MoOsa also
known, the Havildar Of the sepoys, and little dog
named Chtan were recognized by the accurate
| pantomimic description given by the chief
On the 10th Of the same month other reports, con-
frmatory Of those previously received, hailed
by the s.searchers'' as indubitable proofs that
| Moosa's story was an able and most cunning con-
ception of a brain prompted by most cowardly
heart. An empty cartridge case (Enfeld) and an
iron spoon of English make, marked "Patent.n
were brought to Mr.. Young. Photographic
album, with Livngstone's picture in it, was handed
to one OF the natives, who remembered the
| ''good white man. who had given him
! these things, and he was asked to
show the man among all those pictures who
mostly resembled him. The native turned over the
leaves curOusly, and when he came to Living
stones said triumphanty, "That is like him; that
is like him, only his dress was not like that"
On the 18th small English prayer book was
brought. Two days afterwards knife was pro-
duced to the searchers which the natives said the
white man had exchanged for some rice A small
village had been discovered by the gentleman
volunteer when the Ajawa boy, wakotani, had been
very ill, where he had laid several weeks while the
Doctor had continued his discoveries northward
Mr.. Young crossed the southern point OF Lake
| Nyassa at the very point which is known by the
| Arab crossing where DR.. Livingstone crossed. At
Marengas account of white man was had who
| was Immediately identified again as Livingstone,
| with his dog and his servants, from native who
had helped him over with his luggage.
| Mr.. Young was directed from here to village
| called Pacahoma, where the white man had only
seven men with him carrying guns-"MoOsa and
company being conspicuously absent in this emu
meraton OF his followers" When Mr.. Young
told the people at Pacahoma that he
had come to look after him. the natives
said laughing, "Why he is gone to the Bahisa
country how are you to catch him upY 1t would
take three moons journey to reach it."
Mr.. Young replied that he had heard he had been
killed by the Nautilus; but they said, "Oh no, why
he went that way on purpose to avoid them, and
we know he went far beyond, where 1t would take
months to walk" Now, this spot was great dis
lance from that Indicated by Moosa.
On the 25th of September the searchers reached
Mapunda. At this place book entitled 1.-THE First