New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1872-08-08
Letter from Livingstone.

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7 New YORK, July 2G.-Dr Livingstone in another letter to
Mr.. Bennett, speaks follows of the slave trade
The whole traffic whether by land gross outrage
upon ne common law Oh mankind 1t Is carried on from age to
most nsrmounabe obstacles to the intercourse between differ
cupy partly to the ignorance of the more civil
lied of mankind to the blight which lights chiefly
graded piracy the high trying to make the
Eastern African slave trade better Americans indulge
the hope that am aiding though small degree the good
time coming when slavery we'll piracy will be chased from
the world Many have but faint idea of the evils trading
slaves ncts on the victims and authors of its atrocities
Most people imagine that negroes after being butazed by
long of servude with but few ameoating influences
OF the African Our ideas derived from Slaves of
the West coast who have for been subject domestic
climate These have told most in uriousy their physical
frames while fraud and the trade have their moral
Here follows description of the negroes as Dr. Livingstone
found them contrasted with those with whom Americans are ia
Egyptian with his large round black eyes luscious lips and
somewhat nose is far nearer the typical negro
land he lives in The slaves generally and especially on
have prejudice against color and indeed any who
lives long them forgets that they and feels that
they fellow men, but the rereatng forehead prog
nathous jaws ank heels and other physical pecares
among the slaves and West African negroes ALWAYS awaken
some feelings of aversion would ylab calculated
to press down either class deeply in the which it
already SUNK but wish to point that these typical
tives nearly all the highlands the interior Continent are rs
rule fair average specimens of humanity
happened be present. when head men of the GREAT
chief Msama who lives west of the of Tanganya
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burned their chief town. certain one could not see more
finely formed intellectual heads assembly in London or
Paris and the faces and forms correspondent finely well
shaped heads. wa
Msama himself had been sort of Napoleon for fighting and
cOnquerng his days. He exactly like an ancient
Assyran sculped Nneveh MARBLE Nnrod and others
and he showed himself to be of by habuav in,
dugng cOpous poaons beer called pombe MANY the
very pretty and like all ladies have been much
preer had they only let themselves alone are black
but of light brown color They have black eyes beautiful fore
heads nicely rounded limbs well shaped FORMS small hands
and feet but adon themselves by filing splendid points
glass through their noses.
Cazemba's Queen oara Nyombe would be esteemed real
beauty either in London Paris York and vet she had
small hole through the cartilage the tip of her slightly
aqune but she had only filed the front
of her white teeth ad then what laugh she had She
carried to her farm in pleton which
throne fastened to two long poes by twelve
salwart citizens.
Towards the close Of his letter Dr. Livingstone states that he
will remain at Unyanyembe until he fifty men and fresh
supplies from the coast when he will proceed the great
water shed described in yesterdays letter complete his ex
Oraons of what he believes to be the valley of the Nile