The New York herald., 1872-08-11

publish from the Doctors son-with pain, be-
cause the one drawback to our pleasure at the
termination OF all doubts and fears in connection
with Livingstone has been the charge Of neglect
brought against DR.. Kirk, the British representa-
tive at Zanzibar. Nothing but deep sense OF duty
caused to give publicity to those and cir
cumstantial accusations which were made, through
Mr. Stanley, by the illustrious explorer. We
anxiousy warned the public against forming pre-
cipitate conclusions on the matter, while at the
same time we pointed out that as these complaints
were part OF the narrative, they were known and
had been repeated to Dr.. Kirk the best way not
to hush up such troubles but to bring them out into
the light and to let the truth, il possible, be
tanned. The letter from DIR. LvingstOne's son
appears to furnish the beginning OF a satisfactory
explanation. 1t is most honorable and high
hearted testimony from the writer In favor OF the
Ia written, we must remember, after very recent
intercourse with DR.. Kirk. Mr.. Livingstone teeti-
by our resident at Zanzibar and he seems to us to
disspate half the misunderstanding by pointing
him date from the time when Dr. KIRK had been
made aware of the travellers complaints and
suspicious. OF course, the Resident would be
somewhat forced in such a to fall back
upon his official position until he had vlndi-
Gated himself; and all that would remain to
be accounted for would be the mistakes and delays
in sending up men and supplies. Upon tins head
IL is plain that local difficulties might reckon for
vast deal n at u or Gsnyema
cholera and perpetual incertitude as to his exist
ence and whereabouts would place in the way OF
transmitting help. After this letter from his own
son, who speaks 30 warmly and confidently as to
the good Intentions Of the Resident, there Is no
partial consideration at the hands Of the British
pubic. Livingstone himself Is the hkeliest per-
son to be glad hereafter that It was written,
and to allow that he has not done justice
to our representative. 1t is tOlerably clear that
the extraordinary natural difficulties and embar
of the African coast explains the discrep
ancy between what was effected and what was eX-
pected; and the least which we can do after so gen.
ero9s %% %% disavowal OF hasty Judgment, is TO await
hope meanwhile that, when all Is known, he and
the great traveller viii become as good friends
But quitting gladly this entirely subordinate
part OF the subject, we must congratulate the pub
charming letter from the Doctor will afford. Not
the least striking feature about it is its capital
style and o general oorshOmae of manner and
lated and the dreadful scenes which it paints, the
Joy with which the writer has been filed by the
arrival Of succour and by the prospect of consum-
mating his discoveries and doing measureless good
to Africa, positively irradiates the entire produc-
tion Livingstone is clearly once again in splendid
spirits, and certainly makes frst-rate newspaper
correspondent Some OF the philosophers OF the
'Anthropological, indeed, will scarcely enjoy the
those magnificent cannibals, the Manyema. But the
great traveller has seen IN these Lbyan Highlands
the true Acan Aard Of ancient Egyptian rather than Of
writes about the race fills us with deeper abhor-
renee OF the slave trade, and new sense OF what
this dark continent may become when 1t takes its
lOng-deferred place in civilization. The Doctor is
quite gallant about the black ladies'; the Queen
OF Cazembe ne AYERS, would be considered beauty
even in Paris or London, and the women of the
Lualaba vale, he declares, are often absolutely
"lovely." OF course it requires practice be
able to look such little facts as jet black SKINS
woolly hair, cannibalism, pOygamy, and so on but
white people must admire these Manyema, who
they fighting with each other, and who have
thus carried out that which our Treaty of Paris
what capacities for emotion and moral training
must reside in q race like these poor creatures
whom the Doctor describes as "dying OF broken
heart when they saw the broad Lualaba roll be-
tween them and their home And could anything
be more pathetic than the explanation which Liv-
tured men and women Of Londa9 The poor
souls were making "merry" over the idea
that, when they were dead, there would
and that their indignant spirits would
be able to return to haunt and kill their persecu-
be the deadliest blow ever struck against the vile
system OF murder and kidnapping which Is kept up
ment. Other topics Of interest are rife in this de.
lightful communication. The effect Of those
amazing guns on the interior trbes-"t.e lord OF
the light gray parrot with the scarlet tailr-the
tantalizing pentifulness OF ivory in Manyema-the
marvellous fertility of its soil-the aesthetics OF
cannibalism-the existence OF the gorilla fsOkO in
East and Central Africa, with variety Of other
subjects, attract US; but we leave them to the
The geographical discoveries Of these three
silent years are here set down with such clearness
that, If we never heard word more, the gain to
calls the "watershedn OF the Nile extends some
seven hundred and fifty miles westward and east
200 feet above the sea. The springs here are
'innumerable," and they all converge into streams
three three fivers form, which unite into the LuaiaSa
The Chambezi, the Luapula and the Lnalaba flow
finally into the Lake This Is the
which Livingstone has found There is
nn he believes about three hun
the Doctor believes that the LualaDa runs through
and out o! this unknown water" to be called the
Bahr Ghazal, or western branch of the Nile. Now,
Nile, between GOndokoro and KhartOum, and
the Doctor thinks that there is properly no Nile at
ALL except the Lualaba, until that point is reached,
il the Lualaba really finds its entrance there. II
cannot run into Taneanyika; levels forbid and
form the Congo, for the land keeps lofty that
side and the great river nows decisvelv north.
plain TO all who have followed African discovery and
possess good maps that nothing is quite certain
yet. But the undaunted missionary is gone. with
fresh courage and-what Is more necessary to such
man--fresh stores. to find out what becomes Of
the Lualaba during the blank 200 miles. and also to
investigate that most ancient OF geodetica myths
the hill spoken OF by the priests OF Sais, where
four fountains rise, giving origin to four full grown
cracks his last nut' in these wds we have here
matter enough for many 'hot night" at the
Royal Geographically" and to the geographers we
NOW COulmeHu thc icItcI, pSlhbPs tiic Hosb Iubc-
resting ever received ''in this Connection since
the writing OF the second book Of Herodotus.
From the London Morning Post, July 29l
Last year a select committee Of the House Of
Commons communicated to the country that the
slave trade had been resuscitated and was being
carried on in the islands of Pemba ana Zanzibar
and that treaties between the Queen and the Sui
tan of Zanzibar positively fostered the trade. After
all that wllberforce, Clarkson, Brougham, Mackin-
tosh and Horner had done Englishmen were not
prepared to learn that the same odious traffic,
marked by the same features Of satanic cruelty,
was fourishng under the sanction of formal con-
tracts between their own country and a wretched
little African kingdom like Zanzibar. But 30 it is.
From the East Coast Of Africa 81, 200 unfortunate