Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-07-24
DE-. LIYlngstone,s ExpIoratiOns.


The New York Independent gives the
following summary of the Information
brought by Mr.. Stanley, the correspondent
of the New York Herald, from Dr.;iAlv
ingstone:
= Six wears ago last March Dr. Livingston
left Zanzibar with thirty men. Within
eight months nearly the whole party had
deserted him, afraid of the tribes In the IN
terror. Having struggled on to the land
of Bonda, where lives the famous King
Cazpmbe, and who was very friendly, he
struck a fine stream, called Cnampezi,
which was Invariably spoken of by the
Portuguese as "our own Iabezi," meaning
that il was identical with the Zambezi
which flows through the Portuguese pos
sessions of the Mozambique. This idea
caused infinite trouble to DIR. Livingstone,
who was able only after infinite trouble to
to satisfy himself that the Chambezi is an
entirely different stream-being, indeed
the long sought source of the Nile. 1t has
its source about eleven degrees south of the
Equator, precisely as the old Greek geo.
graphers asserted and, what is most cur
iouS of all, DR.. Livingstone heard again
and again the story of the four fountains,
told to Herodotus by the priest of Minerva
at Sais, of which two are the source of The
Nile, while two others, not far distant are
LDo origin Oh the LdlllDeII. LII. IIlNlHS-
stone was scTeTal times within u fort
nights march, of these fountains but
something always occurred to prevent his
visiting them ga
In repeated Journeys and by various
attacks Dr. Livingstone followed this great
ChambcZi river, tracing it through four
large lakes, to one of which, as we have
said, he gave the name of the great liberia
tor of the African race, through seven de-
grees of latitude, called, as it was, 10y diff |
ferent confusing names as it passes from
one lake to another-nOW the Luapula, |
and now the Lualaba-even as we call the |
the st. Lawrence by the name of Niagara |
between Lake Erie and Lake Ontario. In
deed the St. Lawrence series of lakes is no |
longer unique, but is paralleled in the |
wilds of Africa. When he had traced tile |
river down as far as the fourth degree of
south latitude, heewas compelled by his |
faithless servants to return to UjUi, where, |
eighteen days after his arrival, Mr.. Stan |
lev met him, sick, destitute, and despond- |
ent And we'll might he feel. discouraged,
having had no news from civilization for |
five years, and having failed to receive the |
supplies thai were forwarded TO him, but |
which had been embeZzled or delayed by
those in whose charge they had been put.
Stanley left him well supplied with nine
bales of mixed cloth, $50 pounds of assorted
beads, $50 pounds of brass wire, a portable
boat, tools, guns and ammunition, for
which be has to he grateful, not TO the
British Geographical Society, till last year
presided over by Sir Roderick Murchison,
and now by Sir Henry sRawlin8on, but to
an American newspaper.
1t win take DIR. Livingstone two years
longer to- finish his task He mustg go back
% seethe four founts; ns.of Heroae ttis,and
will then take up the missing link in the
course of the Nile between Lake Kamo-
londo and the White Nile. Then we way
expect him back. He will have strange
stories to tell of a trOglodyle people, of an
almost white race, deep i'll the interior, of
cannibal tribes, of copper mines that have
been worked for ages, of skillfuf manu-
features of fine grass cloth, rivaling that
of India, and not improbably of a river
that runs under the very mountains.
Though nearly sixty years of age he is
stout and well and there is every reason
to believe that, with the outfit that Mr..
Stanley has given him, he will be able to
complete the work, aud solve the problem
which has baffied the energies of t vo thou
send years. 81 e. M
We have expressed none too emf lfusiasti-
cally the gratitude which the world ows to
The HerdLd'S enterprise. But, whatever
credit we may claim for it as Americans,
we must remember that this trip was but a
lash of few months; and the greater
credit is due to the patient endurance of
5he old English missionary who, through
ong years of loneliness, has carried on
his toilsome exploration, for love of Christ
10 less than for loved of science.