The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-02-11
LIvNGSTONE'S DEATH.
Reception Of the Sad News In the
British Capital.
Tributes to the Memory of the
Great Explorer.

arrived here yesterday morning, caused the deep.
est regret In all classes Of English society. The
first despatch arrived In the following shape at
| about halEpast ten O'Clock in the morning:-"Tne
Chairman OF the Eastern Telegraph Company pre-
sents his compliments to the editors OF the London
| Journals and begs to hand the following messape
received this morning from the c0mpanYs agent
| at Alden Livingstone died OF dysentery while
| travelling from Lake Bembe to Unyanyembe Bodv
| embalmed and preserved In salt by his Nassick
boys, who are conveying it to Zanzibar en- route
| for England"
| At the same time a message was received at
| the HERALD office, in Fleet street. dated from
Cairo, with exactly the same message. A few
hours later came Reuter-, with the Information
! dated Alden, January 20, that 'Dr Livingstone
died in June. OF dysentery. at Lake Bembe, after
wading through water for four days. His body has
been preserved in salt by his native servants and
| is being conveyed to Zanzibarn
The news had also been received and accepted In
| Calcutta, but all Issuing from one sOurce-Aden,
IMPRESSION ON THE PUBLIC MIND
| The sad intelligence was not Immediately and is
not yet credited-Airlcan explorers have so fire.
quently the benefit Of neurological euloges before
they die. The Royal Geographical Society refuses to
believe the news. meeting was neld at London
University, Burlington Gardens, last evening" when
very naturally, the ominous telegram was dis
tys
was In the chair, and in opening the proceedings
| said:-
SIR BARTLE FRKRE's SPEECH.
wish, before we proceed with the business on
| the paper, to say few words q subject which
| am quite sure has been very much IN the minds
OF every one Of you here present to-day. refer
to the telegram that was published In the
evening papers, and which many Of you
| have no doubt read, recording the death OF Dr.
Twin ctnnn
that intelligence had occupied US {the Council OF
the Royal Geographical Society in most un
pleasant way for some time to-day, was very
much relieved on meeting several members Of the
society and gentlemen who have travelled and
nave every right to speak on the subject, They
came to the unanimous conclusion that there was
something more than doubt thrown on the
probable accuracy Of this report. (Cheers) Fur.
ther on in the evening" after Lieutenant Baker has
read his paper on the subject of Sir Samuel Bakers
expedition, we shall have time to ask Sir Samuel
Baker and DR.. John Kirk, whom I am very glad to
have an opportunity OF welcoming back once more
among us-(cheers)-and to ask other gentlemen
who have given attention to the matter, what are
their grounds for asking us to suspend our judg-
ment on this report (Cheers)
SPEECH OF DIR. KIRK.
After observations on African explorations by
Lieutenant Baker and Sir Samuel Baker, DR.. ].
Kirk arose and asked the public to suspend their
Judgment as to the accuracy OF the telegram re-
speeding DR.. Lvingsone's death until further It'd
ings should be received. He said when left
Zanzibar on the 18th Of September there were
then reports current in the bazaar similar to those
] which have been published to-day with regard to
DIR. Livingstone. took every opportunity of slft-
ing them with view to ascertain1ng whether
there was any foundation for those rumOrs. The
conclusion came to was that they were not
worthy Of being repeated, and they were not
therefore brought up by the mail with which
came home. Since then understand that steamer
has passed Zanzibar not in the usual line OF mail
communication, and this could not have been
many days after lett, but being slow steamer
she would reach Alden considerably later The
rumor therefore take to be one and the same that
had sifted at Zanzibar. met an Arab at Zanzi.
bar who is intimately connected with the trade at
Unyanyembe, and he had received q message from
one OF his slaves who brought down ivory, to the
eject that DR.. Livingstone had been carried into
Unyanyembe. asked whether the rumQp had
.AAir received by letter, and he said, .t, 1t was
smn,v nv renorf NJ the negro" adding that he did
not see any ground wn- .teyss for according credit
to 1t. Cheers, As there has been no further
mail, think we may take it for granSeed that THIS
is the same story, and that the details published
to-day have been added on by the way. None
Of these reports were known at Zanzibar
The simple story there that Dr.. Livingstone
had be,n brought back l think, therefore,
we may set our minds at rest until the arrival of
the next NAL when, II there is any further infor-
nation, Captain Pride, who is on the spot, will
Immediately telegraph and inform us fully. (Ap-
piause.) We have at Unyanyembe very inten
gent native AGENT Lieutenant Cameron, who
wrote the letters which are dated in October He
would be detained after writing these letters
little time at Unyanyembe and would come down
to Zanzibar, which he could reach in less than a
month II there were any information to communi- !
cute OF so important nature concerning the great
subject Of the mission which he conducts-the
relief expedition" (Cheers.)
THE LOGIC OF FACTS
There was some further discussion on African
matters.
Some OF the morning papers are, however, OF the |
opinion that the news comes from the Cameron |
expedition marching up country to Livingstone's |
relief The news may have been received at or |
near Unyanyembe and sent by them to the coast,
thence by ship to Alden, and is, therefore, sixty or
seventy days old II is, therefore, concluded that
the great traveller died in October last year, or
about the beginning OF November.
The Daily Telegraph accepts the telegram and |
says;-"It comedies in every particular with what
was only too possible; dates, places and crcum.
stances agree with each other to render it fatally
certain that the great missionary explorer has
finished his earthly task. First Of all there is on
record the statement OF Mr. Stanley that Living
stone had greatly suffered OF late from dysenterc
attacks. He complained Of q wel-nigh constant
diarrhea at Viii, and walked no more with his old
strong step. He much restored of
course, by the comforts which then reached
him, but that his health was seriously
broken appeared to be fact painfully clear.
Then as to locality, the telegram misspels, we
think, the spot from which the Doctor was jour.
neying. 1t should not be Lake Behme but either
Luwemba or Lake Liemba, which names apply
equally to the land and water at the southern ex-
tremty OF Tanganyiga. Hither lies the road which
Livingstone would have been taking to Cazembe
on his way to re-expl0re the Chambeze and Lua-
1aba drainage; and We imagine that he must have
heen Iorcad To turn hack conscious of mortal