The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-01-20
BRITISH HONOR AT STAKE.
How the Private Enterprise Of
Foreigners is Regarded.
SCIENTIFIC MEN in COUNCIL.
The Royal Geographical Societys Liv-
ingstone Search Expedition
NECESSITY OF PROMPT ACTION.

LONDON, Jan. Q. 1872.
sena you by this mail number of letters ana
extracts from the English newspapers regarding
The impression created here on the receipt OF the
1les OF the HERALD containing an account OF the
travels and adventures Of the HERALD commits
,ioner sent out in search OF DR.. Livingstone In the
wilds OF Africa. The letters and comments speak
for themselves. ana therefore give them without
further reference:-
THE ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY AND THE |
HERALD EXPEDITION.
To THE EDITOR OF THE LONDON TELEGRApH:--
SIR-Enclosed Is copy OF the advertisement we
have sent TO the Da,y Tee0raph relating TO an ex'
petition our society IL rapidly organizing W De-
spatch TO East Africa for the search and relief OF Dr.
Livingstone. Judging from antecedents we believe
national interest and T. therefore, enclose for your
brief statement OF recent facts regarding Lily
Stanley's American expedition [the HERALD ex-
pedltionl, OF which you give an account to-day
Zanzibar OF calamities having Defalen MI: Stanley
in September last through being involved in native
% rsssh aaS
expedition does not run much risk OF being lore
oosr Of ability ana IN East but
the choice Is not yet July compete; am SIR
ROYAL GHoGRApHrcAL SOCIETY, No. sAvILR ROW,
BURLINGTON GARDENS, w., Jan. 0, 1872.
THE LIVINGSTONE SEARCH AND RELIEF EXPEDITION.
the following Is the advertisement alluded to
above, from which 1t win be seen that the Royal
Geographical Society, with commendable alacrity,
has length, In view Of the private enterprise OF
foreigners, become alive to the necessity OF i'm
mediate action to aid the great African explorer.
The advertisement reads
The Royal Geographical Society, having been
Identified Tor the last twenty years with the exp0-
OF Dr n h anu eastern rh
to the great traveller himself and to the public at
large, to make every effort to penetrate the daIk-
condition ore involved and, II possible, to restore
HIM to his anxious country. 1t is now two years
and seven months since scrap OF writing mas
reached the coast from DR.. Llvingstone, t11ugh he
Is believed to be residing at the distance Of only
few hundred miles In the interior. He may be de-
taned captivity, or he may be Frustrated by sick
ness. the recent attempt 10 convey supplies to hin
having failed 10 produce any direct news from the
traveller himself The suspense in which his friends
have been kept with regard to him has on these ac-
minated at ali costs and hazards The COUNCIL Of the
Royal Geographical society, therefore, having learned
Of or communicating with zahziOar By steamer
which Is san direct for that island via the Suez
an expedition by her II suiclent funds can be col
lected In time, and. II not, BY the next opportu-
proceed at once into the interior, alter consulta-
ilon with Dr. Kirk, Her Majesty's Consul at Zanzi.
time when it arrives, and to make Its way to Lake
Ianganyika and ascertain on the spot the truth or
coast with regard TO Dr. Livngstones residence at
Manyema, The acting political agent at Zanzibar
AFFORD every assistance to the expedition; and, as
the party VIII be started In the most efficient state
hoped that inc weoe a Ss
turn to England within the wear. The public ls In
gited'to cooperate with the society III subscribing
10 the fund lOr tine Livingstone Search and Relief
Messrs. Cocks, Bddulph 4 Co., bankers, AZ Charins
SOM, bouvere / Co., No. Pail Mali east, and by
the Accountant Of the Society, No saville row, W.
Royal Geographical Society, $500.
OMAN m
The London Telegraph gives the annexed con.
corning the great traveller
The last latter received from DIR. Livingstone Is
dated May 80, 1859, from UjlJl Lake 1anganyika.
traders to take charge OF his letters 10 Zanzibar.
He writes Tor fresh stores and men, and says that
country and the lakes west Tanganyika. June Is TO-
Her MaJestys government grand $1,000 to supply
~ ree aad asn fyn oy means
ties OF natives sent by the Consul from Zanzibar to
the interior One only Of these native parties, with
portion Of the stores has succeeded In attaining
point within reach OF Livingstone at Manyema; but
neither letters from Livingstone nor proof OF the
stores having reached him have reached Zanzibar.
fhe native in charge Of the stores simply states that
he had received letter from Livingstone dated
October u.s. 1870, which letter he has not transm ed
TO Zanzibar. IL Is doubted, therefore, whether the
traveller has been provided with the means either
OF continuing his explorations or returning to the
coast; and 1t is probable he detained against his
will, and In a position from which only an expedi.
ton SUCH as Is now proposed headed by O resoute
and competent European traveller, can extricate
him.
CONFERENCE OF SCIENTIFIC MEN.
We understand, says the London Teie0,dph, that
conference Of scientific gentlemen Interested In
the safety OF DR.. Livingstone and members OF the
Geographical Society was announced to take place
on Monday afternoon, January 8, In London. The
meeting Will decide what course the proposed Liy.
ingstone expedition shall be instructed to pursue
In order the best and quickest manner TO rescue
the devoted traveller from his supposed present
dangerous detention among the tribes on the banks
OF the newly-dscovered African lakes The NEW
YORK HERALD, in recent issue, publishes the fol.
lowing letter, wnica may be taken Tor what 1t Is
worth-which Is perhaps not much, considering
what shameless liars the natives are-
Here follows the letter OF the HERALD CORE
spondent dated Kwihara, district of Unyanyembe
July L. 18TH
COMMENTS OF THE ENGLISH PRESS ON THE HERALr
EXPEDITION,
The London Telegraph OF January G thus refers &c
the mAtter:-
We to-day publish an appeal which the Royal &c
dition to start al the end Of the month In quest
moment We have reports Of EFFORTS to reach that In
trepid explorer which, II anything could ought L
stimulate all In whose power 1t lies TO send the
aid liberaly and quickly; Englishmen must have
read with strangely mingled feelings the accoun
reached point more than nve hundred miles from
Zanzibar, and Tess than four hundred from
Ujj, where the chronlcler OF the expedition
expected TO ind DIR. Livingstone and TN
reports leave the searchers there about the middle
OF last year. several natives had been met who de
scr1bed "a little, tat, old man, with q long white
beard.n as having encountered sundry adventure.
and accidents far up country, as having been a.
UjUL or as having crossed Lake Tanganylka, on
wich that place Is situated, gone towards another
lake called Maniema, lying Fifteen camps from tht
Tanganyika. IN south-southwest direction" ant
being then on his way back to UJyi In :act n "
cations, they confirm the impression that Living
stone had made that place his headquarters and
ali about Lake Tanganyika- OF itself the journey &c
Lake Maniema might suggest an attempt 10
plateau OF equatorial Africa In the direction OF the
Congo. and since the explorer could not as easily
descend that river "a the Nile II he found that the