The New York herald., 1872-07-17
DIR. LIVINGSTONE.
The Comments Of the British Pren on Stanley,
the Hcrald's Explorer, Finding the
Long Lost Traveller.
from the London Telegraph, July Al

Gama's, solitary as Crus0e's, romantic as MaSco
Polo's. The story Of Lvingstone's marches through
the heart Of Africas dark mystery was at last rc.
lated In our columns, and by this time everybody
knows broadly where he has been, what he has
done and how the enterprising American found
him out at last ''stout strong and undsmaycd"
among the black faces Of UJui. Such narrative
has seldom been heard even In the old times when
the globe was young and unexplored; and
before many generations have passed the planet
will be so thoroughly traversed In all directions
mat the sense OF novelty and strange revelations
which makes this account thrilling will have be-
come bygone possibility. Thus the public en-
ioyed yesterday pleasure which our posterity can
scarcely know-such pleasure as Athens must
have felt on hearing the "Euterpe" OF Herod0tus
read; or Carthage, when HannO came back in his
yalleys from outside the "Pillars OF Hercues;' or
the lieges Of Ferdinand and Isabella, when the
spanish carvels sailed nome with intelligence of
the golden New World. The effect Of reading
so profoundly instructing a summary after the
bare state ment that great traveller was safe
and well. resembled that process In pho
Biography when tie picture comes out upon the
plate under the developing solution. We knew he
was recovered civilization with all the fruits OF
these long, anxiOus, hidden six years, during
much of which the grave was not more silent to us
than Livingstone. After many speculations, ru-
nors, efforts and disappontments we had heard
au thentic tidngs; they grew clear and clearer
they were confirmed. He IL safe, we said. and
We shall have his story. What will 1t be9 little
while longer, and out OF the brief message grows
up this complete picture, which will assuredly be
placed in the gallery of history for ever. The
mind delights to realize in Imagination that glad
moment when. after all sorts Of perils, adven-
lures and misadventures, the gallant and inde-
fatlgabe Stanley won his way with band which
made up In noise for what they lacked in numbers
to the outskirts OF Ujji town. We must all envy
that American nag which was carried proudly at
tho head Of the procession; and yet 1t happens
seasonably Just now In the hoSr Of our agreement
bring help to the lonely Englishman But win he
be at Viii Yes, there he is-"a paie-looKlng gray.
bearded white man, in red wO0len jacket, and
upon his head naval cap with a faded gold band"
Stanley, at glance, knows it Is Livingstone,
found him out and brought aid strength and
security for all his harvest OF toll and danger but
they are nnder the eyes OF the grave Arabs who
and America keep up their character demurely be-
lore paganism, and not one excited word is Spoken
rs 1t were, outside the world. ''Dr. Livingstone
presume ~ says Stanley, very quietly; and the
hSr alter aid the s nor h
gOatskins In the hut, where they could freely un-
pack their hearts brmfn OF congratulations, human
fellOwships and eager questions and answers-witll
the news OF all the world i0r six years past TO tell
on one side, and on the other the last secret Of
Mr Stanley must some day tell us every sentence,
every word OF that memorable conversation; but,
meanwhile, the gallant American communicates
enough to furnish sufficiently connected sketch
OF Lvingstone's proceedings during the long period
of his absence IN the Mosan wii,Is.; i! was in
following the left bank of the Rovuma River,
,nade his way towards Lake Nyassa. All this
region Is wen enough known by the expedition Of
search which Mr.. Young led; for the traveller
was traced step by step through Chlbsa's conn
and was found as all remember, to have gone on,
wcl and hopeful IRON tho spot where the lying
Johanna men gave ont that he had been mur-
dered. These fellows deserted out of fear of a
Mazitu chief an! also through the bad behavior
OF Muse. from whcm better things were ex-
pected. But Livingstone, az we had heard
got a fresh set OF porers together, aud struck
or northward through the country marked In the
Iucenda, and the Lake Tanganyika. IN approach,
ing Cazembe, which lies between the lakes he
crossed thin stream. called the Chambez,
which Is written on our maps under the name OF
the Lokanka, and represented as being tributary
TO the zambesi., He followed this stream up and
has water in his head.F But, nothing moved by
satisfied himself that il had no connccton with the
great river OF the similar name. He traced it
through three degrees OF latitude, and then made
his way to tjlli, whence he sent the last messages
which received. Again he started and cX-
plored the head OF Lake Tanganyika, where he
found the River Rusizi lowing Into not out OF, the
basin; ana then, again returning to uliji he seems
10 have crossed the Lake Tanganyika and to have
travelled westward Marching hence he entered
perfectly unknown land that OF "Msnyema," and
nearly perished Of ulcers and fever; but, recover
ms he pushed on mort northwards ana aS reached broad
Quently identified rs the Chambezl by tracing them
to common point Afterwards he followed this
channel to within $50 miles OF the Nile, as already
explored. AT this intensely interesting crisis his
men deserted, and, having neither stores nor fol
more back to UjDi, where he arrived only eighteen
days before the brave American reached that spot
Knowing all this, We can wonder no longer that
Livingstone declines to come home to us. He has
sent down his papers and collections; but on the
14th OF March OF the present year Mr.. Stanley
parted from the Doctor, leaving him indomtabiy
bent on solving the question OF those same tan
talizing tone hundred and eighty miles," and also
OF 9ur t uni saa or 70 Csamsz sap ss n y0e nn
1t win he asked. what is the upshot OF these
researches The upshot-if Livingstone be right
Is that the Chambe2i is the Nile, and that the mar
yelious ancient river OF Egypt nows from sources
eleven whole degrees south Of tho Equator, Instead
OF half degree north OF 1t No maps existing
viii suffice TO pilot the reader of this strange
romantic story. Livingstone is maker OF maps
q writer Of new names IN the vast blank spaces OF
the Atlas, and therefore, ll we possess fuller de-
script1ons and statistics IT is unsafe TO draw any
positive conclusions. But the general meaning OF
the narrative s that the great traveller has found
an important continuous stream which, rising AZ
low south rs Cazembe, runs steadily northward out
side Tanganyika and carries the explorer, as we
suppose, In tho direction Of the Nyanzas and
Uganda country OF Speke and Grant--to the north,
aud apparently not only ITO the Nne u but .by
has gone 10 explore connects the Chambezi and
the known Nile, that amazing river runs through
iorty-two degrees OF latitude ana the iliustrious
traveller has added nearly thousand miles TO its
recorded course. In such case IL appears that the
victoria Nyanza must he regarded as but tarn,
and the Albert Nyanza mere weir OF the antique
mood, whose vertable fountains run from far be-
hind The mythical Mountains OF the Moon.n But
how does Tanganyiea drain and where IL the
watershed OF the Rusizi and what mountains are
there IN the Cazembe or Babsa land, where the
new and suddenly important "Chambezir--a mere
Con)ecturai streamet hitherto on the map
mas ns origin such are the questions
which geoggaphers win burn to ask, and
some Q! them win say that Livingstone may yet
md his Luaaba going OF eastward TO the I'm.
known or noIthward TO the Desert. " IL should,
indeed, turn out that this fearless and unconqucr-
able man has really traced the very mother springs
Of the mighty river. what gory ior him. and what
cr0wning credit Tor the land OF Park, Denham.