Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1874-04-09
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Livingstone's papers. including a
diary of his last journeys, are safe
in the hands of Mr.. Arthur Laing, "a
British merchant in Zanzibar. These
papers, sealed by the great traveller
himself when, on the approach of
death, he became 20 longer able to
acrite, were conveyed to the coast at
the same time with the embalmed
remains. Readers interested in the
subject Of course remember that DIR.
Livingstone's diaries of travel up to
the time of Stanley's visit at Ujiji,
were brought to England by that
gentleman and by him placed in
charge of the Doctors daughter,
Miss Agnes Livingstone, according
to directions. Thus the necessary
materials exist for the preparation
of a satisfactory account of the most
interesting and in some respects i'm
portant explorations of recent times
Doubtless, journals written under
the disadvantages surrounding Liv-
ingstone in his solitary wanderings,
will exhibit many obscurities, many
mere hints Of adventures undergone,
perils escaped, ,and remarkable seems
beheld; hints which would have en-
abled him to recall and record mar
ratives of thrilling lnsterest, but
which can now be Of no other use
than to remind readers of the fear
less and persevering character OF
the man. Still it is much that any
record, however imperfect, exists of
so many years Of so memorable a
life. We need hardly say that, in
all human probability, the world is
indebted for this great boon to Mr..
II. NJ. Stanley, and the generous
New York editor who sent Stanley
on his wild and apparently hopeless
adventure in search of the lost trav-
eler. $3.50
When Stanley found him at Ujiji
he had Just returned from an ex-
hausting tramp of nine or ten
months. He described himself as a
mere ruckle of bones, broken down
in health and almost ready to des-
pair. He had been neglected by the
officials on the cost, who should have
watched over his interests; he had
been robbed by the seizure of his
supplies, and, as the entire body of
slave traders and their agents had
engaged in conspiracy to defeat
his enterprise by robbing him again
and again, there is no reason to be-
lieve that the supplies for which he
had resolved to wait at Ujiji would
ever have come to hand. Indeed a
part of the scheme of the slave-hun.
ters consisted in representing him
as dead, and they he'd pretty well
succeeded in making DR.. Kirk, the
British agent, and other English
men at Zanzibar believe their story
If the story had come to be fully
accepted by foreigners on the coast
the slave-traders would never be au-
thoritatively contradicted, and they
would have had no difficulty in max
ing effectusl contradiction impossi-
BILE. Livingstone would have been
destroyed in one or another way.
Their plans were completely frus-
trated by the splendid courage, for
titude and perseverance of Stanley.
His visit acas the medicine Living
stone needed to restore his health
and spirits. He furnished him
abundantly soith the stores, drugs
and other supplies required for the |
prosecution of his explorations And |
as regarded the travellers safety, an |
equally important service, he con-
Veyed to the coast full assurance of |
his being alive, and full informa-
tion; concerning the malignant intri-
CUES and Vaccinations to schich he
'cas exposed on the part of the man
stealers and their patrons the bun1-
abs Of Zanzibar.
As things have turned out, one
cannot help regretting that Living
stone did not return home acith his
1eliverer. He could have prepared
'or publication the records of his
more valuable contribu-
ion to geographical knoOledge than
my he scas likely to make by the
journey he had projected
md in schich he perished. Regret
IN the subject is the more natural
md legitimate, as even schen the
'reat explorer aoas setting out for
he purpose, as he hoped, OF identi
ying the river Lualaba scith the
Nile, it scas already known in Eu-
ope, through the travels of DIR.
'chWeinfurth there could be no con-
lection bet,Deen the t,co streams
Among the papers of Livingstone
'rougnt to the coast acith his re-
Mains are several letters for STAN
ey, schich have been placed in
harge of the American Consul,
ir. ceeb, fact rhich reminds us
hat American newspaper men are
till silly enough to profess doubt
rhether or not Stanley ever found
1ivingstone.-Pntsburg Comm ercial
The coal miners of Hooking val
ey are on q strike. Police have
'een sent from Columbus to pre-
erve order. The cause of the strike
q q disanraa,ooct lotwoon %l,o $500