Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-07-18
DIR. LIVINGSTONE.
Interesting Letters from Stanley

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The Explorer Destitute when Found
by stanley-The story of Bfs Trav-
els and erings-Outrageous Com
duet of British Agents-The Source
OF the Mile Still a HEystery-Prepa-
items for a Final Expedition.
Special to the Cincinnati Commercial.
New York, July l5.-The Herald has
letters from its correspondent Stanley, who
| penetrated Africa and found DIR. Living
stoneRt Ujiji. After detailing his own ad-
ventures on the Journey tEither, and de-
scribing the first greetings, Stanley writes:
After shaking hands we turned toward Liv-
ingstone's house. We took seat on goat
skins spread over the mud floor of his YER
anda, when the conversation began. 1t
would be difficult to say about what, as the
topics changed rapidly, but shortly found
myself acting the part of newspaper. /
had i've years of news to give him. Our
first day was passed in eating so voraciously,
and talking so fast, and about so manifold
| subjects, that it is difficult to say which we
did most, but it is certain that before retir-
ing he asserted bis belief that / had brought
new life to him; he already felt stronger
| and better. That night he read packet of
| AObeC4c WHICH, uuus
Some days after my arrival at Ujiji, l elic-
| tied from him the story OF his travels and
| sufferings and discoveries for the last five
years. He reviewed his explorations ND to
| the point where the London Geographical
| Society ceased to receive letters from him.
From that date, afterresting at Uiiii, he
| thought Of exploring the head of Tangany-
ika; and ascertaining whether this land had
| H.. a..
ise was an infuent or affluent, but the ay-
arice of the Waltz, which would have de
prived him Of most of his cloth, prevented
him. At the end q June, 1869, he set off
by way of Ugiehha for his last series of ex-
pforatiops. Fifteen days march brought
him 10 Manyema, a virgin country, but
lately known 10 the Arab even.
On the threshold of great discoveries he
was laid up six months from ulcers in hrs
feet. When recovered he set off northerly,
and came to a broad river called Lualaba,
which flowed northward, westward, and in
some places southward, in most confusing
way. The river was from one to three
miles broad. Following it southerly he dis
covered Lake Kamolondo, in latitude de-
grees, 80 minutes. He traced the river
southwark to Lake Maero, where be saw it
issue ont of this lake through an enormous
| and deep chasm in the mountains. Salts
fed that this Lualaba river was tie Cham
bezi, which entered Bangwoolo, or the Lua-
pula, which entered Maero, he retraced his
steps northward to Lake Kamolondo. He
came to river flowing from the west called
the Lock-, or Miami, which issued from
large lake called Chebungo, situated to the
south southwest from Ksmolondo. To this
Lake Chebungo DR.. Livingstone gave the
name Lake Lincoln, after President Abra-
ham Lincoln.
Still making his way north bit by bit,
against several and varied difficulties, along
the Lualaba's crooked course, as far as Iati-
fudge deg. south, be heard of another
large lake, situated on the same central
line of drainage as the four other lakes, but
here he was compelled to turn back to
Ujiji. Against this compulsion his iron
will and indomitable energy fought In vain.
His men had mutinied, and absolutely re-
fused to bulge step, and to Uj5i he was
| obliged to return, bafhed, sick and weary,
and destitute man.
1t was in this state your correspondent
met him, only eighteen days after his ar
rival. So far had the traveller gone north
that he was at the beginning of the final
and certain end. Six hundred miles of
watershed had been examined carefully.
At the beginning of the seventh hundred,
| false slaves, sent to him from the British
consul at Zanzabar, and who were sent to
him as an escort, rose mp against him, say
ing in their determined actions, "Thus far
you shall go, and not one step further"
That this remarkable river, Lualaba, is
the Nile, and none other, no one doubts;
but this one little blank, who will I'LL it NJ?
He has followed this river from eleven de-
grees south to four degrees south-that is,
through seven degrees of latitude, or 420
geographical miles. It only wanted $50
miles more (this is the length of the undis-
covered link and the Nile, which had baf-
ded oracles and sages, Kings and Emperors,
had been revealed throughout its length.
According TO Livingstone, two things yet
remain before the Niles sources can be said
to be discovered: First, be has heard of the
existence of four fountains, TIVE of which
give birth to a river flowing north, which is
the Lualaba, and two to river flowing
south, into Inner Ethiopia, which is the
Zambezi, thus verifying the statement which
| the Secretary of the Goddess Minerva, at
Sais, made to Herodotus over two thous-
and years ago. He has heard of them re-
peatedly, and has been several times within
fortnight's march from them, but some
| thing always interposed to prevent him go
| ing to see them. These fountains require
to be seen to secure the remaining link
above desirable to be explored.
The Doctor arrived at Ujji on the 10Th
of October; the Herald expedition on the
! Sd of November, eighteen days later, and
not month too late nor month too soon.
! He was sick and destitute, and help came
in time. He had returned to Ujiji only to
find himself robbed of everything by the
very man to whom the British Consulate
had intrusted his goods. This man, called
Shereep, had sold them for ivory, and had
feasted on little stock of luxuries sent to
the Doctor by his friends. F..
A few days after the arrival of the Her
aid expedition at UjUi, asked the Do tor
| if he had explored the head of the Tang
anyika. He said he had not; he had not
thought it of so much Importance as the
central line Of drainage, besides, when he
had proposed to do it at Ujiii, they had
shown such disposition to fleece him that
he had desisted from the attempt.
| Your correspondent then explained to
him what great Importance was attached to
the lake by geographers, and suggested to
| him that it was better, seeing that he was
about to leave for Unyanyembe, and that
something might occur in the meanwhile
to hinder him fiom ever visiting it, to take
advantage of the offer L made of putting
myself, men and effects of the expedition at
his service for the purpose of exploring the
northern head of Tanganyika. He at once
accepted the offer, and, like hero, took no
| time in starting.
On the goth of November, DIR. Living
stone and your correspondent, with twenty
picked men, started, despite the assertion of
Arabs that the Werundi were dangerous,
and would not let US pass. We Rugged
their coast closely, and when fatigued bad
ly, encamped in their country. Once, only,
were we obliged to fly, and that was at the
dead of night, from large party which we
knew to be surrounding US on the land
| side.
We spent nine days at the head of the
Tanganyika, exploring the islands and many
bays that indent its shores. In returning
to Ujiji, we coasted along the west side of
the Tanganyika, as far as the country of
Wasonsi, where we had to leave, in no ami
cable terms, owing to their hostility to
Arabs, and arrived at Ujiii on the 18th of
December, having been absent twenty-eight
days. 81
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