The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1872-08-01
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The New York Independent gives
the following summary of tho infor-
nation brought by Mr.. Stanley, the
correspondent Of the New York Herald,
from DR.. Livingstone:
Six years ago last March DR.. Liyioe-
stone left Zanzibar with thirty men.
Within eight months nearly the
"hole'party had deserted him, afraid
Of the tribes in the interior. Having
struggled on to the land of Bonda,
where lives the famous King Cazemde,
and who was very friendly, he struck
a foo stream, called Chambezi, which
was invariably spoken of by the Portu.
euese as "our own Zembezi," mean
ing that it was identical with the
Zembezi which flows through the
Portuguese possessions Of the Moz.m-
blque. This idea caused infinite
trouble to Or: Livingstone, who was
able only after ln6nite trouble to satis.
fy himself that the Chambezi is an en-
tirely different stream-belng, indeed,
the long sought source of the Nile.
1t has its source about eleven degrees
south of the Equator, precisely as the
old Greek geographers asserted; and,
what is most curious of all, Dr.. Liv-
ingstone heard again and again the
story Of the four fountains, told to
Herodotus by the priest of Minerva
at sais, Of which two are the source of
the Nile, while two others, not far
distant, are the origin of Zsmbezi.
DR.. Livingstone vas several times
within fortuight's march of these
fountains; but something always oc.
CURED 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 iberator of the African race,
through seven degrees of latitude call.
ed, as it was, by different confusing
names as it passes from one lake to
aDotber-now the Luapla, and now
the Lualaba-even as we call the St.
Lawrence by the name of Niagara be-
tween Lake Erie and Lake Ontario.
Indeed, the St. Lawrence series
of lakes is no longer ua1que, but is
para]leled in the vilds Of Africa. When
he had traced the river down as far
as the fourth degree Of south latitude,
he was compelled by his aithless
servant to return to Ujji, where eigh-
teen days after his arrival, Mr.. Stan.
ley met him, sick, destitute, and de.
spondent. And we'll might he feel
discouraged, having had no news from
civilization for five years, and having
failed to receive the supplies that
were forwarded to him, but which had
been embeszled or delayed by 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, for which he has to be
grateful, not to the British Geographi.
cal Society, till last year presided over
by Sir Roderick Murchison, and now
by Sir Henry Rawinson, but to an
American newspaper.
1t will take DR.: Livingstone two
years longer to finish his task. He
must 60 back to SEQ the four fountains
of Herodotus, aud will then take up
the missing link in the course of the
Nile between Lake Kanolondo and
the White Nile. Then we may ex-
pect him back. He will have strange
stories to tell Of troglodyle people, of
an almost white race, deep in the in.
terror, Of cannibal tribes, of copper
mines that have been worked for ages,
of skillful manufactures of fine grass
cloth, rivaliug that of India, and not
improbably of a river that runs under
the very mountains. Though nearly
sixty years of age he is stout and we'll
and there is every reason to believe
that with the outfit which Nh. Stan.
ley has given him, he will be able to
complete the work, aud solve the
problem which has baf1ed the energies
Of two thousand years.
We have expressed none too enthu-
siastically the gratitude which tho
world owes to the Herald's enterprise.
But, whatever credit We may claim for
it as Americans, We must remember
that this trip was but dash OF q few
months ; and the greater credit is due
to the patient endurance of the old
English missionary who, through long
years Of loneliness, has carried on this
tolsome exploration, for love Of science.
THE NOA11NATION OF GREELEY.
From the Ne,s York World.
We will not attempt to conceal our
doubts. Mr.. Greeley's election or de.
feat depends on his receiving the sup
port of that part Of the Democratic