The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-07-23
DIR. Livingstone,s explorations.

Inc new 1OrK 1ndepeNueHb gives eho
following summary Of the information
brought by Mr.. Stanley, the correspond; 4
ent Of the New York Herald, from pr.
Livingstone: b
Six years ago last March Dr.. Living.
stone left Zanzibar with thirty men.
Within eight months nearly the whole
party had deserted him, afraid OF the
tribes In the interior. Having struggled
on the land OF Bonda, where lives the "a.
nous King Cazembe, and who was very
friendly, be struck fine stream, called
Chambezi, which was invariably spoken
of by the Portuguese as TOUR own Fam.
bezi,p meaning that il was identical with
tho ZambeSi which flows Though the!
Portuguese possessions Of the Mozam-
bique. This idea caused infinite trouble
to DR.. Livingstone, who was able only
after infinite trouble to satisfy himself
that the Chambezi is an entirely different
stream-being, indeed, the long sought
source OF the Nile. II It's source about
eleven degrees south Of the Equator, pre-.
cisely as the old Greek geographers as.
serted; and, what Is most curious Of all,
DR.. Livingstone heard again and again
the story Of the four fountains, told to
Herodotus by the priest Of Minerva at
Ssis, Of which two are the source Of the
Nile, while two others, not far distant are
the origin Of the ZAnbezL Dr.. Living.
stone was several times within q fort.
nights march Of these fountains; bat
something always occurred to prevent his
visiting them.
In repeated journeys and various at
lacks DR.. Livingstone followed this great
Chambezl river, tracing II through four
large lakes, 10 one Of which, as we have
said, he gave, the ntmeot the great liber.
ator Of dc African ldccI though seven
degrees OF latitude, called, as It was, by
different confusing names as It passes
from one lake to another-now the Lua.
pula, and now the Lualaba-even as we
call the St. Lawrence by the name Of. Nj.
agara between Lake Erie and Lake 0nts.
rio. Indeed, the st. Lawrence series Of
lakes Is no longer. unique, but Is paralleled
in the wilds Of Africa. When he had
traced the river down as far Us the fourth
degree Of south latitude, he was compel.
ed by his faithless servants TO return to
Ujiji, where, eighteen days after his arri.
val, Mr.. Stanley met him, sick, destitute,
and respondent. And well might he feel
discouraged, having had no news from
civilization forfve Year., and having fail
ed to receive the supplies that were for.
warded to him, but which had been en-
bezzled or delayed by those in whose
charge they had been put. Stanley lett
him well supplied with nine bales Of mix,
ed cloth, 070 pounds Of assorted beads, $50
pounds of brass wire, portable boat,
tools, guns, and ammunition, for which
he has to be grateful, not 10 the British
Geographical Society, till last year presid-
over by Sir Roderick Murchison, and
now by Sir Henry Rawlinson, butto an
American newspaper.
twill take DR.. Livingstone two years
longer to finish his task. He must 90
back 10 see the four fountains OF Herodo.
tus, and will then take up the missing
link in the course of the Nile between
Lake KamolonGo and the White Nile.
Then we may expect him back. He will
have strange stories TO tell oil a troglodyle
people Of an almost white race, deep in
the interior, Of cannibal tribes, Of copper
mines that have been worked for ages, Of
fskillful manufactures Of fine grass cloth
rivaling that of India, and not improba'
bly, Of river that runs under the very
mountains. Though nearly sixty years o.
age he is stout and WE'LL; and there. 6
every reason to believe that, with the out
ct which Mr.. Stanley has given him, he
will be able to complete the work., and
solve the problem which has batfled the
energies OF two thousand years.