Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-07-31
DIR. LiYlngstone,s Explorations.

The New York Independent gives the
following summary of the information
brought by Mr.. Stanley, the correspondent
of the New York Herald, from DIR. Liv
ingstone:
Six years ago last March DIR. 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
Cazembe, and who was very friendly, he
struck a fine stream, called Chambezi,
which was invariably spoken of by the
Portuguese as "our own Iabezi," meaning
that il was identical with the Xambezi
which flows through the Portuguese pos
sessions of the Mozambique. This idea
caused initiate trouble to DR.. Livingstone,
who was able only after infinite trouble to
to satisfy himself that the ChambeZ 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 10y the priest of Minerva
at sails, of which two are the source of the
Nile, while two others, not far distant, are
the origin of the Zambezi. DR.. Living
stone was several times within fort
nights march of these fountains; but
something always occurred to prevent his
visiting them.
In repeated journeys and by various
attacks Dr. Livingstone followed this great
ChambeZi 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 by 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
decd the st. Lawrence series of lakes is no
longer unique, but is paralleled in the
wids of Africa. When he had traced the
river down as far as the fourth degree OF
south latitude, he was compelled by his
faithless servants to return to Ujji where,
eighteen days after his arrival, Mr.. Stan
lev met him, sick destitute, and despOnd-
cnt. And well might he feel discouraged
having had no news from civilization for
five years, and having failed to receive the
supplies thai We're forwarded to him, but
which had been embez2led or delayed 10y
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, portable
boat, tools, guns and ammunition, fol
which he has to be grateful, not to the
British Geographical Society, till last yeal
presided over by Sir koderlck Nurchlson
and now by Sir Henry Rawlinson, but to
an American newspaper.
1t will take DR.. Livingstone two year,
longer to finish his task He must go bach
to see the four fountains of Herodotus,an
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 n troglodyte people, of n
almost white race, deep in the interior, o
cannibal tribes, of copper mines that hav'
been worked for ages, of skillfuf manu-
features of fine grass CLOTH rivaling tina
of India, and not improbably of "A rive
that runs under the very mountains
Though nearly sixty years of age he i
stout and well and there j. every reason
to believe that, with the outfit that Mr.
Stanley has given him, he will be able t
complete the work, and solve the problem
which has baflled the energies of two thou
send years.
We have expressed none too enthusiast
cally the gratitude which the world ows t
the Herdid'S enterprise. But whateve
credit we may claim for it Americans
we must remember that this trip was but
dash of few months and the create
credit is due to the patient endurance o
the old English missionary who, through
long years of loneliness, has carried OF
this toilsome exploration, for love of Chris
no less than for loved of science.