Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-10-12
E THE LIVINGSTONE AID EXPEDI-
TON HEARD FROM.

DR.. Livingstone appears to have as
"many lives as cat" BE has been killed
repeatedly, and then resuscitated only to
be lost in the jungles and wilds of Africa.
Aud now sdvices from Africa announce the
capture of white man by the natives
while proceeding westward on the Congo
river. From the description of the man,
Mr.. Charles LiviDgtone believes it to be bis
son, the long lost explorer who has not been
heard from during the last five or six years,
except through the New York HeraIdS ex-
petition under Stanley, and there are
not few doubling Thomases IS to the
truth fulness Of SANKEY'S story. Simulta-
neously with the receipt Of this news, the
mail from England brings abstracts Of an
important paper on the progress of the
Livingstone East Coast Aid Expedition,
read by Msj. Smith before the British Asso-
cation st Bradford on Sep. p. The paper
is from the pen Of Lieut.. Cameron, Of the
British navy, who is IN charge of the party
penetrating the interior in search Of Liv-
ingstone. The latest sdvices from this ex-
petition are to the 18th of June, at
PeVspiva. The route taken was nearly that
described BY Stanley,Sn will continue 50 far
asNyambo. Up to their arrival at Numiji
Usaphaid on the 29d of June, the expedition
had met with but few adventures, and had
not seen single herd of big game but as
they have Joined their force with two other
caravans, aud are now moving in a body,
some five hundred strong, this will not per-
haps be so very surprising. They had
everywhere been received with extreme
cvility, and they describe the
Arab legitimate traders as good,
clever, civil, obligiDg and very
gsntlemanly. The Eastern African ne
groes, whose villages they had passed
through, are described as materially far
better off than the majority Of English Ia
borers. The huts are well built; they have
abundance to eat; their dress, though very
scanty, is sufficient for the clima'e, and
nearly all can Afford brass and bead orna-
meuts, tobacco to smoke, porube to drink;
and the majority keep fowls, goats and in
some places cattle. 1t appears that On the
I'd Of June they sent for food to a village
about seven miles distant, but this deputa-
ton ran away because they heard
of row at another place quite
out Of the way. Ga the 4th they sent off
another deputstion, consisting of twenty
porteTs and twelve soldiers, to bring
back the first and to get food. This last
party had obtained food, and were prepar-
ing to start back for the camp, when they
were told by the villagers that an attack
was hourly expected from tribe called the
Waterloo, and that they had sent; men an d
women with the medicine man to lay tails
mans about on the road. AS the deput alton
were leaving the village, crowd of people
were seen performing incantations, and one
of the soldiers cried out, Here is the Wa
terloo, your enemy The villages had not
time to reply that it was their own people
returning, when an Askiar or soldier
determined not to lose such favorable
opportunity for shooting somebody, fired,
and the bullet went clean through one Of
the villagers who had been out prac.icing
nominations In the wood, making fearful
wound. There was, IF course, general
row. Six of Cameron's men were taken
prisoners, one was wounded, and the re-
mainder very nicely bolted. Many might
have become rather anxious for the expedi-
ton, but an Arab who had long settled in
the country iindly and most eivilly con-
sented TO arrange difficulties, which he did
on the most ruinous terms. A palaver
took place at the village, during
which q sort of town crier got up into a
tall trea, and as tbetslk and argument went
on below he shouted out the words and the
meaning of the speakers TO the assembled
multiiudes, who Immediately expressed APP
pro6aii m or the reverse by the mos hide
uls grunts, shouts and yells. The end of
the pslsYer was at last declared by the re-