The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-07-26

'u'cS0t VI tue III II WHO Wtut uoWu lIOm
Jerusalem to Jericho, and vision flashed
across his brain-could it be that the good
!. Samaritan was close at hand? Another mo-
ment and one of his attendants rushing at the
top of his speed, gaspc'l out the eventful
news that white man was actually approach
ing. Then the eyes of the wanderer were made
glad by the appearance of human being Of
ms own color, and the American flag, the first
ever seen in those parts, told him of the
nationality of his visitor
We cannot say what were the first thoughts
OF Dr. Livingstone when the Stars and Stripes,
famed by an African breeze, first met his
gaze. 1t may be that for the instant he anti
cipatcd annexation to the United States, or it
may be that his mind momentarily prepared
itself for proposition to trade cloth or to
| publish his explorations of the sources of the
Nile in cheap edition on shares. But he
soon learned the object of the men he beheld
drawn up before him, and his heart thrilled
with JOY and qualification to find that
he was still remembered among his fellows,
and that the American people We'd with
his own countrymen in the effort to bring
him relief. Then came anxious inaui-
ries for intelligence from the civilized world;
and the information that was news to the
great traveller conveys vivid idea of the
magnitude Of the task he has undertaken and
the sacrifices it has entailed upon one born and
nurtured in the lap of civilization. Tie final
success Of the Atlantic cables was unknown to
DR.. Livingstone, and from Mr.. Stanleys lips he
heard for Tho frot fip,a hot Tho
were actually speaking together every instant
across three thousand miles of ocean. The
mighty political changes on the Continent Of
Europe; the unifcation of Italy and Germany;
the overthrow of the French Emperor; the
election of General Grant; the death of his
friend, Lord Clarendon, were all news to him;
and we can imagine the interest with which he
listened to the budget of information poured
into his ears by his welcome visitor.
The progress made in his work of discovery
is concisely given by DR.. Livingstone in his
valuable letter. The watershed of South Cen
trail Africa, he tells us, is over seven hundred
miles in length, and the fountains thereon are
so numerous that it would take mans life
time to count them. He traced the sour large
Ai'CAo AA1cO WA1AoA uuCy COANcISc. duu, dSdlu,
the two mighty streams event ually formed by
these, cropping his way in the dark; for, as he
says, who in that region cares where the rivers
run after he drinks his fill of the waters? His
last great task was to follow the central line of
drainage down through the country of the
cannibals, called Manyema, which line has in
it four large lakes. When near the fourth he
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six hundred miles of the watershed, and, unfor-
tunately, the as yet unexplored seventh hundred
mile is the most interesting of the whole; for
in it, as DIR. Livingstone believes arise the
four fountains from an earthen mound, of
which so many rumors have been heard and
the mysteries of which he designs to penetrate
before he returns to Europe, despite his long
ings to rejoin his family and kindred in
civilized land. But not in the world of re-
search alone does DR.. Livingstone hope to
accomplish good from his self-sacrificing Ia
bors. His practical mind leads him to believe
that he can achieve victory for which his
heart prompts him to struggle victory over
the horror and sin of African slavery. This
work of humanity, in which he asks the aid of
cry from its own soil forever, he declares he
shall regard as greater triumph than the dis
covery of all the Nile sources together.
The events of the past fifteen months, in
connection with the Livingstone expedition
pass before us like the panoramic views of
strange and marvellous drama. Every inch of
the moving canvas has its interest, and as it
rolls along its striking features leave on the
mind the impressions gathered from fairy
tale. We see the feet of dhows as they set
sail to convey the adventurous leader, with his
motley followers and novel cargo through the
coral reefs of Zanzibar to the mainland amid
the cheers of the few white men and the crowds
of wondering Africans gathered on the shore
to witness their departure. We see the pic
turesque caravan setting out from the sea
coast on its perilous journey, with its turbaned
chief and his two or three white companions
its hundred pagazi, or carriers" from the
Land of the Moon, loaded with the
wealth of the expedition--the bales of
CLOTH bags of beads and coils of
wire; its little band of armed men, which
tell that there are other dangers than those of
climate to be encountered. We trace the sim
gular procession it winds along carrying
the American flag through fields rich with the
variegated colors of tropical climate-over
hot sands, through thick forests, threatening
swamps and dangerous jungles. Suddenly
we find signs of civilization appearing on the
scene; not the civilization which brings peace
and happiness in its train, but the civilization
which p1acas trained armies in tho fold and
wages war against its neighbors. Some
savage ruler has demanded tribute of
rival Chief as one Christian monarch