The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1872-08-01
ALETTER FROM DIR. LIVINGSTONE
Gratitude of the Great Explorer.
HIS SAD PLIGHT WHEN FOUND.
FROM DR.. LIVINGSTONE

New YORK, July 5-The Herald
furnishes to the press of the country the
following letters to its editor from DR..
Livingstone
UJIJT. TANGANYIKA, East Africa,
Nov, ISL james g Bennett. Jr.-l
My Dear Sir 1t is in general some
what difficult to write to one we have
never seen. 1t feels somewhat like ad
dressing as abstract idea, but the presence
Of your representative, Mr.. Stanley, in
this distant region, takes away the strange
ness should otherwise have felt, and,
10 writing to thank you for the extreme
kindness that prompted you to send him,
| feel quite at home.
If explain the forlorn condition in
which he found me you will easily per
ceive that have good reason to use very
strong expressions of gratitude. L came
to UjIi off tramp of between four hun
dred aud five hundred miles, beneath a
blazing, vertical sun, having been bafied,
worried, defeated and forced to return
when almost in sight of the end of the
geographical part of my mission, by a
number of half caste Moslem slaves, sent
to me from Zanzibar, instead of men,
| The sore heart made still sorcr by the
woful sights had seen of mans inhu
mauity to man, reached and told on the
bodily frame, and depressed me beyond
measure. thought that | was dying
on my feet. 1t is not too much to say that
almost every step of the weary, sultry way
| was in pain, and | reached Ujiji mere
"ruckle" of bones. There 1 found that
some five hundred sterling worth Of goods,
which had ordered from Zanzibar, had
unaccountably been intrustsd to drunk
en- halfca Moslem tailor, who, after
squanderiDg them for sixteen mouths on
the way to Ujiji, finished up by selling
off all that remained for slaves and ivory
for himself He had "divined" on the
Koran, aud found that | was dead. He
had also written to the Governor OF
Unyauyanyembe that he had sent slaves
after me to Mauyema, who retured and
reported my death, and begged permits
sion to sell off the few goods that his
drunken appetite had spared.
He, however, knew perfectly we'll, from
men who had seen me, that was alive
and waiting for the goods and men but
as for morality, he is evidently an idiot,
aud, there being no law here except that
of the dagger OF musket, had to sit down
! in great weakness, destitute of every ythipe
save a few barter cloths and beads which
had taken the precaution to leave here
in case of extreme need. The near pros
pect Of begging amoug the Ujijians made
me miserable.
could no. despair, because laughed
so much at a friend-who, on reaching
the mouth of the Zambezi, and that he
was tempted to despair on breaking the
| photograph of his wife. He could have
no success after that. After that the idea
of despair had to me such strong smack
of the ludicrous that it was out OF the
question. When had got to about the
lowest verge vague rumors Of an English
, visitor reached me.
| thought Of myself as the man who
went down from Jerusalem TO Jericho
but neither priest, Levite nor Samaritan n
could possibly pass my way, yet the good
/, Samaritan was close at hand, aud one oi
my people rushed up at the top of hi:
speed, and, in great excitement, grasped
out, "An Englishman coming see him.
and off he dared to meet him.
l An American flag, the first ever seen
in these parts, at the head Of a caravan,
told me the nationality of the stranger
am as cold and non demonstrative as we
islanders are usually reported to be, but
your kindness made my frame thrill. |,
was, indeed, overwhelming, and | said
IL 81, IL 4
scend from the Highest on you and yours >
The news Stanley had to tell was thrill
a ing. Mighty political changes ON the
/, Continent, the success Of the Atlantic
cables, the election OF Gen Grant, aud
$ many other topics, rivetei my attention
1 for days together, and had an immediate
and beneficial effect on my health.
had been without news from home
for years, save what could CLEAN from
( a few Saturday Reyie,cs and Panch fol
t 1868. My appetite revived, and in :
week began to feel strong again Mr
r Stanley brought most kind anl en-
s courag'iS dcpalch from Lord Clarendon
: whose loss | sincerely deplore-the frs
. have received from the Foreign Oihcs
since 1856, and the information that ths
. British Government had kindly seu
flOO0 to my aid.
Up to this arrival | was not aware o
> any pecuuiary aid. came unsalarcd
but this want is now happily repaired
and am anxious that you and all m,
friends should know that though un
cheered by letter, have stuck to the tasI
which my friead, Sir Roderick Murchi
: son set me, with John Bullish tenacity
believing that all would come right a
last.
The water. shed OF South Central Airic:
is over seven hundred miles in length =
| The fountains thereon are almot inuumer