The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-08-15

ingst0ne, with his ardent temperament, his en-
thuslastic nature. his high spirit and courage.
might have been an uncompanionabic man and q
hard master. Religion has tanned all these cnarac-
teristics; nay, II he was ever possessed OF them,
they have been thoroughly eradicated. Whatever
was crude or wilful religion has refined, and made
him. to speak the earnest sober truth. the most
agreeable of companions and indu}gent OF masters.
AFRICAN COMPARISONS
have been frequently ashamed OF my impotence
while listening to his mild rebuke to dishonest or
lazy servant, whereas had he been of mine his dis
honesty or laziness had surely been visited with
prompt punishment. have often heard our SER
wants discuss our respective merits.
Your msstcr,.," say my servants to those Of Liv-
ingstOne "s q good mana very good man. He
does not beat you, for he has Q kind heart; but
ours-oh he Is sharp, hot as fire-,nE0lt nd-kdnG
snOtO"
From being hated and thwarted In every possible
way by the Arabs and half castles upon first arrival
in Ujiji, through his uniform kindness and mild
pleasant temper he has now won all hearts. per-
ccived that universal respect was paid to him
by ALL
THE GOSPEL TO THE HEATHEN
Every Sunday morning he gathers his little mock
around him and has prayers read. not In the
stereotyped tone OF an English High Church clergy
man. which always sounds in my cars inslncerely.
but in the tone recommended by Archbishop
Whately-viz., natural, unaffected and sincere.
Following them he delivers short address In the
Eisawahiti language about what he has been read
ing from the Bible to them, which. is listened to
with great attention.
HIS BODILY vi6oR.
There Is another point in MvingstOne's character
about which we, rs readers Of his books and
students OF his travels, would naturally wish to
know something-viz his ability to withstand the
rig0rs OF an African climate and the consistent
energy with which he follows the exploration OF
Central Africa. Those who may have read
Burton's "Lake Regions Of Central Africa" cannot
have failed to perceive that Captain Burton, the
author was very well tired Of Africa long before he
reached Uji. and that when he had reached UjUi
he was too much worn out to be able to go any far
ther, or do anything but proceed by boat to Uvira
near the northern head 0ftne Tanganyka-a task he
performed, we must admit, in no envlabie humor.
We also know how Spoke looked and felt when
Baker met him at Gondakoro; how, after merely
glancing at the outflow Of Lake Victoria into the
Victoria Nile, he was unable or indisposed to go
little farther west to discover the lake which has
made Baker famous and given him knighthood.
Also, do not all know the amount Of Bakers dis
covery Of that lake. and what resolutions he made
after his return to civilization from his visit to the
Albert Lakes
TIE INDOMrTABLE RESOLVE.
When first met the Doctor asked him If he did
not feel desire to visit his country and take o lit
tic rest. He had then been absent about six years.
and the answer he gave me freely shows what kind
of man he Is, and how differently constituted he is
from Burton, Spoke or Baker SAID hes
~ would like very much to go home ana see my
chlldrenonce again, but cannot bring my heart to
nearly completed. II only requires six or seven.
months more to trace the true source that have
discovered with Petherick's branch Of the White
Nile, or with the Albert Nyanza OF Sir Samuel
Baker. Why should go before my task is endod
to have to come back again to do what can very
well do nows'
"And why" asked. "did you come so far back
without finishing the short task which you say you
have yet to do 2"
'Simply because was forced; my men would
not bulge step forward. They mutned and
formed secret resolution that II still insisted
on going on to raise disturbance In the country,
and after they had effected 1t to abandon me, in
which case should be killed. 1t was dangerous -
60 any farther,--Ehad explored six hundred miles
of the watershed, had traced all the principal
streams which discharged their waters into the
central line Of drainage. and when about starting
to explore the last one hundred miles the hearts or
my people failed, and they set about frustrating
me in every possible way. Now. having returned
seven hundred miles to get new supply Of stores
and another escort, find myself destitute Of even
the means to live but for few weeks, and sick in
mind and body"
Let any reader study the spirit OF the above re-
mark, and compare 1t with those which ami
mated Burton, q Spoke or q Baker, How would
those gentlemen have comported themselves in
such crisis, unprepared as We oil know they
were, for the terrible fevers of Central Africa
THE HEAD OF THE rANGANYIxA.
Again. about q week after had arrived in Ujji, I
asked Livingstone II he had examined the northern
head of the Tanganyika. He answered Immediately
he had not, and then asked If people expected he
had. l then informed him that great curiosity was
felt about the connection that was supposed to
exist between the Tanganyika and Lake Albert.
One party said that river flowed out Of the Tan
ganyka into the Albert; another party held that it
was impossible, since the Tanganyika was, accord
ing to Burton and Spoke, much lower than the
Albert. Others were inclined to let the subject
alone until they should hear from him, the only one
capable at the present time to set the matter at
rest forever.
The Doctor replied to these remarks that he
was not aware 80 much Importance was attached
to the Tanganyika, as his friends at home instead
OF writing to him, contented themselves with
specializing as to where he should come out Of
Africa and thus he had been kept ignorant Of many
things Of which those who took any interest In him
should have informed him.
81 did try before setting out for Manyema to en-
gage canoes and proceed n0rthward, but soon
saw that the people were all confederatng to fleece
me az they had Burton, and had gone under such
circumstances should not have been able to pro-
coed to Manyema to explore the central line Of
drainage, and Of course the most important line
far more important than the line Of the Tangan-
yika; for whatever connection there may be be-
tween the Tanganyika and the Albert the true
sources Of the Nile are those emptying into the
central line OF drainage. In my own mind I have
not the least doubt that the Ruszi River flows from
this lake into the Albert. For three months ste adj
lily observed q current setting northward. veri.
fed 1t by means Of water plants.