The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-09-09
MIR. STANLEY AND HIS CRITICS.

The Stories About Observation-Disclosures
ant Dawson's Telegram About s'Somc
Underground Villages In Rua"-The
killing Business-"Scientifc Under
standing Fcllows-What Is Thought
of Greeley's Chances for the Presidency
at Ujiti.
The following letter, addressed by Mr.. Stanley to
the editor Of the London Daily 7elegrap1 was pub
lished in London on the 27th ult:-
The following Is from one OF the London papers
published weekly-the SPECTATOR
Mr. Stanley is very angry because some increduloas
os % has Sss s
Der that i Is VERY dihicn to apprehend all at once
% F es sssacs Sanity
YORK
oMr reelsys sandda, y TOR the Pr dency the poe
,Snss and wi; sSnadins sim, ;s%slieiy sSsIcEins
ps E my s"SS
date Of
exier pau 81 my trunk Is packed to go home. but /
eS HE Dr. fff Would WY
recoecaons Of The Doctor as he was that the scepesH
very uniairly-judge Mr.. staneys account OF him as
For a serious journal to publish the above as
having really emanated from my pen Is as aston
my very existence least OF all In my discovery OF
Livingstone"
I do not think it possible for man to be more
misrepresented than ! have been. First OF all
Lieutenant Dawson sends telegram from Zanzibar
to the Royal Geographical Society to the effect
that Livingstone is determined to stay two
years longer, In order to discover some under
ground villages in Rual' NV answer is that he
Certainly did not derive that information nom me.
SecOnd-I cannot remember in what place or be-
fore what assembly ever uttered such nonsense
as 81 had to get there; got there there was
Third-The SatuydaviR eufe,o, in its accustomed
strain, says:"Ms Stanley Is not justified In resent
ing his not being taken for what ne does not pre-
sarily accompanied by scientific understandable
may ask what special scientific understanding"
was manifested by DR.. Beke, Sir H. Rawlinson. Cap
tain Grant and others, who chose to deliver them
selves OF their unwise theories respecting Living
of the British Association, assure you fail to see
particle OF scientific UNDERSTANDING and l am
only an interviewer as the saturday Revteoo
industriousy read oil the diverse criticisms about
the sources of the Nile, have seen nothing yet
''unscentnc understanding The only member
of the Royal Geographical Society who seems to
have fair idea as to how the problem OF the Nile
Beke's letters TO the Times are unscientifc iogi
cal and unworthy the impression had conceived
In cuneform inscriptions and Assyrian history, his
ideas respecting Central African rivers and water
sheds are wild, absurd and childish-to use the
The Saturday Rerte,1 states that "Mr Stanley
brought back what his employers wanted which
was certainly not geography" Now, how can any
man know anything. relating to Central African
geography unless he has been exploring that un.
known region, or unless he has acquired
his knowledge OF 1t from the books OF
travellers who have explored II = Can
any writer on the stan OF the saturday Re
ute,c tell me where the river Ksengo.iss or where
the important province OF MDogo isY Can the
Saturday Revteac inform me how many affuents the
Tanganyka receivesS Where the Ruszl r1sesY HOW
many thousand square miles does Tanganyka
drain7 In what part Of Central Africa does the
Want riser what Is the extent in square miles OF
Unyamwez9 What countries separate the North
ern Watuta from the Southern WatutaY what 70
the difference between the L0ke River and the Lock-
RiyerS who IL Suniba- mwemr, and who 10 Nom
dbs What countries 90 thD goverp' Wnere u