The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-05-21


The American party left the mainland In April 1871.
| Its leader was in 0nyanyembe by August, which
September, however, he was able to proceed to-
wards Ogara.a spot twenty days journey nearer
s sad IN pace ee ne dSy
" 49, ~ maze "sen 10 zanzibar
better than o the whos Journey to
the shores OF Tanganyika; and. supposing him to
exactly and accurately for the meeting announced,
and for the march Of native caravan to Zanzibar
bearing information Of tine INCIDENT. In word, II
designed cOincidences' Of the report show very
avoraby, and we are enabled to state that, both BY
stoned Mr.. Stanley and by the ofciais Of the Royal
Geographical Society, great confidence Is felt in the
news be confirmed, the utmost credit viii be due to
the courageous New Yorker, and splendid gains
may be expected for science; since the fruits OF Lv
ingstOne's long explorations will now be safely
-eaped. United with another white man. and rein
forced with goods medicines and means Of all sorts,
down MS Journals and maps, and we shall hear be-
fore the year Is out what he has found either north
wards or westwards Of the Long Lake. For all this,
OF course, we must walt patiently as yet. But In
fortnight the royal geographers will certainly re-
ceve the lettors and full details coming by the
Abydos, and then we shall be able to Judge with
more seeing the great explorer back In our midst,
bearing with him, 1t may be- the deepest secret Of
from the London Standard, May 81
The good news about Livingstone, whose truth
successive driblets Of intelligence have for q long
while established, or seemed to establish, has been
confirmed in fashion that we scarcely dared as
yet to hope. While 1t Is we'll to receive the an
nouncement with all due caution, there appears no
reason to doubt that the gallant traveller whose
name Is a household word In England is at this
moment alive and in good health. The tele
gram which Sir Henry RawlinsOn read to an
enthusiastic audience OF his reception OF the
Royal Geographical Society on Monday is c0rr0b-
GRATED by another despatch which reached Eng
land last evening, and which comes, we may
presume, from q source entirely independent Of
that whence the message published yesterday
morning issued. DR.. Livingstone has arrived OF
Zanzibar In the company OF Mr.. Stanley, who, In
the good ship Abyd0s, sailed from America, deter
mined to do all that human power could achieve to
discover, and II needs be to rescue, the bold ex
plorer, whose courage Is admired not less across
the Atlantic than in this his native land, and has
received at least q more substantial testimony Of
honor Qnd appreciation in the New World than in
the Old. Heartily do we congratulate Mr. Stanley
on the triumphant results which have-we hope we
are justified In saying-crowned his quest; and all
honor, not alone to him, but to the generous pro-
motors Of the noble enterprise which Mr.. Stanley
was despatched over thousands of leagues OF ocean
to conduct Shall we confess that while feliciae
Mr. STANLEY upon the issue OF MS mission, ana Wno
we recognize freely and fully as we do
the splendid qualities which inspired his country
men with the determination to discover Living
stone, we are conscious OF sentiment somewhat
akin to envy and closely allied to shame ourselves.
Shall we say what we cannot forget, and what we
blush to record--that the assistance and the en-
couragement which the government of England de-
MED for the expedition bound In search OF the man
whom England SO PROFOUNDLY admires was given
nation, which OF all Others In the world has the
character OF being almost sordidy practical, with
ita
the money which was needed in furtherance Of so
magnanimous a design
Quod mlnimc reris Graia pandetur ab urbe
Can Livingstone, we may well ask, have thought
that the first white man whom he would meet, and
who should have succeeded In penetrating to him,
would have come, not from the land of his birth,
but would be the chief OF expedition equipped at
the expense Of a foreign country and that country
With whatever OF rich results the purposes OF
DR.. Livingstone's long and perilous self-expa-
triaton, the end of his tolls and hardships Of his
exposure to the many dangers OF that mighty con-
rally confined to its fringe-are we may be quite
certain, accomplished. The gallant explorer would
not have made his way to Zanzibar unless the OBJ
iinqulshed his tolls nness those tolls had done all
consented to join Mr. Stanley or his comrades and
to proceed to Zanzibar unless no had made the
which animated his first efforts. Failure is not
word known in the vocabulary of men like Living
taken in hand, or else we see them no more. Liy,
ingstone and his fellows, Sturt and hundreds OF
50 to tn9 %e
they seem to gather up into tot the focus focus
Of the pluck the patience, the Courage Of which we
are as people so proud. They show US with new
Which, we Ike u to see in ourselves and as we In
stinctively honor and admire the men for their no.
bility and their excellence SO do we abundant pro-
t,x,t fical ifu IL
Livingstone Is moro In our midst, he will re-
ceive such welcome as falls to the lot OF few men
scene OF his victories and the field Of his glories,
with all the pomp and circumstance OF war, could
not have In store for him hn reception more jnS
awaits livingstone. And a conqueror, in
deed, Livingstone may well claim TO be- His
sought at the point Of the sword or amid the rattle
OF musketry. :. He has fought not with man, but
pediments as terrible armed battalions could in
terpose; has stormed places more impregnable
of a deadlier kind than those of lurking ambuscade.
In his train he has not spread havoc nor des0la-
ton-he has been the dpon cotu7fer only Of the
the name and increased the power OF England as
much as If he had annexed entire Kingdoms to
and muIcted whole countries In overwhelm-
ing penalties. While he has labored for his
II He has been adding to- The suns OF
knowledge; and he has been, It Is not premature to
say, the instrument of opening up new fields Of In
dustry and labor and gain to the human race.
Colonization can only follow exploration. Had 1t
not been for Columbus the Pilgrim Fathers would
never have found home across the Atlantic Thus
the material advantages which the Iabors OF Iiv
ingstone may be found to have conferred are alto
gether incalcuable. Africa, writes the Roman his
torian, Is always producing something new; and In
this nineteenth century we can as yet only con-
slider ourselves to be on the threshold OF the great
African mystery. "rhe most desolate desert and
inhospitable country In the world, even Greenland
and Nova Zembla itself not excepted are the
words In which Defoe makes his hero Captain Single
ton describe the Continent OF Africa. Since then
African exploration has taught US how partial In
applicability the description OF the novelist Is. we
have learned to dscredit the myth which tabled
that Central Africa was one mass of sand bed. We
know that In that vast area there Is vegetation OF
uxuriant richness glorious valleys and Indefinitely
fertile SOIL We know that river courses run where
we had once supposed the earth TO be parched with
an unquenchabie thirst, and that regions which we
had thought were unInhabitable save by monsters,
offer fair and fruitful homes to men. But even
when we have said all this how insignificant
our knowledge or Central Africa when compared
with the immensely OF the space which 1t
emhracas really IA: how altogether do orr