The New York herald., 1872-07-17


OF DR.. Livingstone, the proprietor Of the New YORK
HERALD took the matter In his own hands, selected
a gentleman eminently fitted for the enterprise he
was called upon to undertake, gave him carte
blanche In all that regarded expenditure. ana sent
him into the unknown regions OF Central Ailica 70
procure authentic Information respecting MS iate,
and to secure, II the man existed the results OF ms
labOrs. Mr.. Stanley, the commissioner in question,
has been completely successful. He found Living
stone not only alive and well, but so busiy engaged
in his explorations that he has voluntarily deferred
his return for another year and half. Nor Is this
ALL Not only Is the great traveller safe-hls labors
nave been crowned nee WIN Sompiete n h,cn the
mighty Nile takes its origin and he remains Dehnd
to satisfy himself by personal examination OF q
hitherto unexplOred break OF $50 miles In length
between the lowest point to which he followed the
stream in question and the uppermost poiht 10
Starting from Zanzibar at tho head of large
caravan, organized by himself, Mr. Stanley reached
point his troubles and difficulties began. The King
of neighboring territory through which ne III.
tended to pass positively refused PERMISSION and
Mr.. Stanley in an evil hour consented TO join his
forces with those OF some discontented Arab
chefains and make war on the potcntate in
tul, one Of the villages OF King Mirambo having
been carried by the assailants and the inhabitants
put to the sword; but day or two afterwards,
MirambO having drawn the invaders into an am.
buscade, sgnally defeated them aud killed five OF
Mr.. Stanley's armed escort. The commissioner,
luckily for himself had been compelled by attack
Of fever to return the day before to Unyanyembe
aud there he received the account OF the DISASTER
and had the additional modification of seeing his
little band dissolve, leaving him with only an Eng
lishman named Shaw, an Arab boy and six OF ms
armed escort King Mirambo, luckily, was con-
and did not, as was Spprehended, follow up
ms success by attacking HhnyaGyemiiSe, th eiiSes lTr
sauleV was snv enabled to collect and marshal under
the American flag would have made an inenectual
stand against the forces OF Mirambo flushed with
victory, and we might have been deprived Of the
pleasure OF following Mr.. Stanley further in his
travels. The result OF this brief campaign was to
convert the HERALD commissioner to a policy Of
'non-interventionn in African disputes; and, leav.
ing the Arabs to continue the war on their own
account II they so pleased, he formed the plan OF
the warke Mlrambo. TO this, however, his former
allies. the Arabs, raised numerous objections and
Of his followers, Including. shaw, into de-
sertiOn. Not discouraged, however, by these
losses, Mr.. Stanley collected as many as were still
willing to accompany him, and started boldly
across desert and through a country completely
unknown to him or any OF his followers. OF this
journey, which occupied several months, we have
no particulars in the present summary. He seems.
however, to have met with more than the usual
Instructions which befa travellers at the hands OF
petty potentates and the chiefs OF savage tribes;
but at length, on the 3D. OF Noyember, he came
within sight Of the town OF Ujijl.. 1t seems to be
as much noise and Gclat as possible, so Mr..
Stanley arranged his band in the most imposing
and the armed Being a eced %
discharge their firearms rapidly as they could,
the little band entered the town, where Mr.. Stanley
saw among the bystanders "a paleOOklng gray
bearded white man, whose fair skin cOntrasted
with the sunburn visages OF those by wholl he was
surrounded" That man he rightly conjectured to
be Dr. Livingstone.
The summary OF DR.. Livngstons's adventures
and labors during the past six years is necessarily
not so ample as We could have desired When the
story OF his assassination told some years since by
the Johanna men vino accompanied him on his ex-
peditiOn, was tested, the unanimous conclusion ar
rived ut was that these men were simply desrous
of conceallng the fact that they had deliberately de-
serted their employer This surinise Is now proved
in every particular to have been correct. Very
shortly after his departure from Zanzibar in 1865
DR.. Livingston was abandoned by his followers, and
he compelled afterwards to rely exclusively on
the assistance of natives. At the end OF this year
he crossed what is described as "a thin stream
called the Charbezi, flowing In q northcrly direc-
ton, and the course OF this river he seadastly fol-
lowed from the beginning OF 1867 till March, 1869,
and the results OF his observations were first that
this river wasnOt, as some Portuguese travellers had
affirmed, identical with the Zalnbezi, which flows
from Central Africa In southeastery direction
to the coast and, secondly, that 1t was In truth the
source OF the Nile: Assuming this supposition to
be right, the Nile rises IN eleven degrees south lat
tade, and consequently attalns the unparalleled
length OF 1900 miles. In 1869 he returned to Uiji
ana despatched letters, which have never reached
their destination III June OF the same year he re.
newed his explorations and struck on a broad
river-the Luolba--whch he traced backwards
until he found. as he cOnjectured, that 1t was The
continuation OF The Chambezl, and then, resulning
his igations followed the river until he reached
point only $50 miles distant from the point to
which the Nile has been already traced. Here he
more to return to Ujiji. II was only some
three weeks after is return to this town that Mr..
Stanley arrived there; but so dcsirous IL Dr. Iiv-
ingstone OF fully completing his bors with respect
to the source OF the Nile and its complete course,
that he proposes once more to return to the banks
OF the river he quilted aud follow 1t steadily mp TO
The point already reached by Spoke. That his con-
clusions correct there can be no question, and
1t may now be taken as practically demonstrated
that the Nile does not take Its source In the lakes
explored by Speke and Burton, but that the foun-
tain stream Is supplied many degrees farther south.
From the London Daily News, July l4.l
Africa is fulfilling in a new sense her destiny as
the nursery of lions. Mr. Stanley, the correspond
ent OF the NEW YORK HERALD, has won for himself
fairly the title to be the freshest and most attrac-
tive lion of the society OF Manhattan. The extra
ordinary narrative Of his explorations in search Of
DR.. Livingstone, which he has just communicated
to his journal and to the world, Is of the most
exciting stories civilization has had since 1t chose
to dishelleve the startling stories told by Bruce.
We are willing to make every allowance for the
strength OF the effects naturally thrown In where
narrator is his own hero, and has reason
to congratulate himself on the success of q daring
and apparently hopeless enterprise. Mr.. Stanley
Is newspaper correspondent detailing his own
adventures for the benefit OF the enterprising
journal which sent hum out. We may assume that
he will put everything In the most picturesque
light and that he will not undervalue the successes
or the difficulties Of his own expedition. Still the
fact certainly remains that he found Dr. Living
stone; and not, as we think Sir Il. Rawlinson
conjecturcd, that DR.. Livingstone found him.
Mr.. stanley made his way from the sea,
over deserts and through Hereby hostile tribes,
until, after adventures that almost seem incredible,
he came upon the object OF his search, conmuned
with him, spent weeks and months with him, and
has brought back to civilization narrative OF DR..
Liyingst0ne's occupations, taken from the great
explorers own lips
Little more than year ago Mr.. Stanley started
from Zanzibar on his mission. lie made his way,
at the head Of large caravan organized by himself
TO Unyanyembe. Thence lie proposed to continue
his journey TO Ujili, the village which has lately
been made famous az the supposed resting place
of Dir. Livingstone. To got there, however was
not easy. King interposed his divine right.
Mrambo, Sovereign of rjowa whose name IL
will be useless to seek In the Almanack OF Gotha,"
had become tired OF foreign visitors and refused to
allow q uassaRn TO any caraXAn acrOgs lis soil. Mr..