Connecticut western news., 1872-09-06
Letter from Dr. Livingstone.
The following is Dr. Livingstone's letter to his brother in Canada:

Letter from Dr. Livingstone.
 The following is Dr. Livingstone's letter to his brother in Canada:
 UJu, Nov. 16, 1871.
 MY DEAR BROTHER: received your welcome letter in February last, written when the cable news made you put off your suits of mourning. This was the first intimation I had that cable had been successfully laid in tl,e deep Allan tic. Very few letters have reached me for years. in consequence ofmy friends speculating where I should come out on the west coast, down the Nile, or elsewhere.
 The watershed is broad upland, between l, 1000 and 5000 feet above the sea and some 70 miles long. The springs of the Nile that rise thereon are almost innumerable. It would take tho best part of mans lifetime GO count them. One part, GA miles of latitude, gave 32 springs from calf to waist deep, or on spring for every two miles. A birdseye view of them would be like the vegetation of frost on the window panes. To ascertain that all of these fountains united with four great rivers in the upper part of the Nile Valley was work of tune and much travel. Many a weary foot I trod ere light dawned on the ancient problem. If I had left at the end of two years, for which my bare expenses were paid. l could have thrown very little more light on the country than the Portuguese who, in their three slavery visits to Cazembe, asked for ivory and slaves, and heard of nothing else. asked about the waters, ques- toned and questioned till was really ashamed, and almost afraid of be- ing set down as afflicted with hydro cephalus. went forward, backward, and sideways, feeling my way, and every step of the way was generally groping m the dark, for who cared were the rivers ran?
 Of these four rivers into which the springs of the Nile reverge, the central one, called Lualaba, is the largest. It begins at the River Chambeze, which flows into the great Lake Bangwolo. on leaving it, its name is changed from Chambeze to Luapula, and that enters Lake Moero. Coming out of it the name Lualaba is assumed. and it flows into third lake (Kamoloudo), which re- ceives one of the four large drains men, toned above. It then flows on and makes two enormous bends to the west, which made me often fear that l was following the Congo instead of the Nile. It is from one to three miles broad, and never can be waded at any part or at any time of tbe year. Far down the valley it receives another of the four large rivers above mentioned, the Lockee or Lomame, which flows through what have named before Lake Lincoln, and then joins the central, Lualaba. We have, then, only two lines of drainage in the lower part of the great valley-that is, Tanganyika and Albert Lake, which are but one lake river, or say if you want to be pedantic, "lacustime river" These two form the eastern line. The Luaiaba which l call Webb's Lualaba, is, then, the western line nearly as depicted by Ptolemy in the second century of our era, After the Lomame enters the Lualaba, the fourth great lake in the central l1ne of drainage is found, but this I have not yet seen, nor yet the link between the eastern and western mains.
 At the top of Ptolemy's Loop the great central line goes down into large, reedy lakes, possible those reported to Nero's centurion, and these from the western or Petherick's arm, which Spoke and Grant and Baker believed to be the river of Egypt Neither can be called the Nile until they unite. The lakes mentioned in the central line ot drainage are by no means small, Lake Bangwolo, at the lowest estimate, IS l5C miles long, and tried to cross 1t and measure it's breadth exactly. The first stage was to an inhabited island, 24 miles the second stage could be seer from the highest point, or rather the tops of the trees upon 1t, evidently lifted up by mirage the third stage, the mair land, was said to be as far beyond, but
 my canoe men had stolen the canoe, anc they got hint that the real owners
 were in pursuit, and got into furry tC return home. On, that they would
 But I had only one coverlet left to hire another craft, and the lake being 40( r feet above the sea, it was very cold. Se I gave in and went back, but believe
 the breadth to be between 60 and 7(
 miles,. Bangwolo, Moero, and Kamo are looked on as & great riverine lake
 and are one of Ptolemy's. The other i the Tanganyika, which found steadil. flowing to the north. This geograpber'
 predecessors must have gleaned thel
 geography from men who visited thi , very region. The reason why hi , genuine geography was rejected was tn
 extreme modesty of modern map makers
 One idle person in London published pamphlet which, with killing modesty he-entitled "Inuer Africa Laid Open j; and in the newspapers, even in th
 Tunes, rails at any one who travels ant dares to find the country different iron
 that drawn Bin his twaddl9. I am great sinner in the poor fellows opinion and the Times published his raving
 even when I was most unwisely belleve' F to be dead. Nobody but Lor' l Brougham and knew what people vii
 say after we are gone. The work of try
 ing to follow the central line of drainag
 down has taken me away from mails o
 postage. The Manyema are undoubted ly cAnnibaled, but it was long before could get conclusive evidence thereon t I was sorely let and hindered by havin! s half-caste Moslem attendants, unmitigat 3 ed towards, and false as their prophets of whose religion they have only imbibe' the fulsome pride.
 They forced me back when almost il sight of the end of my exploration dis tance of between 400 and 500 mile under blazing vertical sun, and I cam here a mere ruckle of bones, terribl jaded in body and mind. The hea
 man of my worthless Moslems remaine here, and as he had done from the coast ran riot with the goods sent to me 5 drunk for month at time. He the
 divined on Koran and found that wa dead, sold off all the goods that remain ed for slaves and ivory for himself, and arrived to find myself destitute of every : thing except few goods left in cas s ofneed. Goods are currency here, an : have tn wait now till other poods an