The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-04-07


mapmakers too far east, so DR.. Livingstone trod
on new ground. II Will enable one TO form an idea
OF the way he went If he conceives him going
westward from Kal0sas, and then northward until
ne takes up he point at which ne left of in 1863
The watershed between the Loangwa and Fam
best rises up 900 feet. The Zambesi was crossed
In latitude 10 deg. "a min. south. 1t had hooded
all It's banks. but the lines OF trees showing its
actnai size were not more than forty yards apart.
lie says he thinks he Is now IN the watershed,
although not the highest part OF it. between Fam
best and soapua. lie and his party here suffered
great deal from
GNAwISG HUNGER.
The Babisa, who were among the first natives to
engage in slavery, have suffered It's usual effects
Theif country is almost depopulated and the few
inhabitants have nothing TO sell. He found no
difficulty in the L0angwa and Zambesi valleys
In securing supplies OF meat with the rifle; but
Lobisa had no animals, and he had nard times In
marching through Its dripping forests. but had no
serious diffculty with the natives
BEMBA.
This town (Bemnal has treble line OF stockades
and deep ditch around the inner DR.. Living
stone wrl,es:-.The chief seems frank, Jolly
person, and having cattle, mean to rest little
wnile with him. We are very much emaciated, but
like certain races OF pigs take on fat kindly. Our
sorest loss has been all our medicines. We are
$500 feet above the level OF the sea, bat, having
rains every day. feel that we need like the cattle
Of the people, the protection Of huts." He regrets
that his geographical notes are scanty, but
hopes to send fuller information from Tanganyika.
AN AMERCANIsM.
In mis- letter to Sir ROderck Murchison ne states
that he had had no news whatever from the coast
since he left, but hopes Tor letters and a second
stock or goods at Ujiji. He had also been unable
nvf Son nj farc In had xvri ffop in
hopes Of meeting an Arab slave trader. but he says
they all .skedaddled' as soon as they heard the
English were coming
ANOTHER LETTER-JuLY 1S6S-THE SOURCES OF
THE NILE.
In another letter to the British Secretary for
Foreign Affairs, dated "Near Lake Bangweolo,
South Central Africa, July 1888" (and read before
the Royal Geographical Society, November 8.
1909. DIR. Livingstone refers to his letter OF
February, 1867, in which he stated that
ne had the impression that he was then the
watershed between Zambesi and either the Congo
or The Nile. He now states that more extended
observation has since convinced him OF the essen.
tial correctness OF that impression, and from what
he has seen, together with what he learned from
intelligent natives. he thinks he may safely assert
| that the
CHIEF SOURCES Oh THE NILE
arise between 10 deg and II deg south lati-
tnde, or nearly in the position assigned to them
| by Ptolemy whose river, Phapta, is probably
| the Rovuma Aware that Others have been mis-
taken, ana laying claim to nalnbillty, he says
he does not yet speak very POSITIVELY particularly
OF the parts west and northwest OF Tanganyika,
because these had not yet come under his observa-
| ton; but according to his previous discoveries
the springs OF the Nile have hitherto been searched
J for very much TOO far to the north. They rise
| some 400 miles south OF the most sOutherly por-
ton Of the Victoria Nyanzi, and, indeed south Of
| all the lakes except Bangweolo.
| The Doctor here entered into lengthy, but very
! interesting and important recital OF his geograph-
ical discoveries up TO the period OF his present
writing. In giving an idea or
which, in small way. enacts the part OF the Nile
lower down, he said he had to cross two rivuets
which now into the north end Of the Moero; one
thirty the other forty yards broad, crossed by
bridges. One had quarter, the otner hall . mile
] OF Hood on each side. The Lu0 had covered plain
abreast OF Moero so that the water on great
| part reached from the knees to the upper part Of
| the chest. The plain was OF black mud with grass
higher than hs head. In places, while walking in
paths lie was plunged ankle deep in soft mud
while hundreds Of soft bubbles rushed up, and,
bursting, emitted irightfu odOr. The state Of
the rivers and country made him go In the very
LIGHTEsT MARCHING ORDER.
He took nothing but the most necessary instru-
ments anu no paper except q couple OF note books
and the Bible. Only one OF his attendants would
come where he then was; the others, on various
pretenses, absconded. "Fhe fact ISL he exclaims,
! ''they are all tired Of this everlasting tramping,
| and
/ so VERIFY AM Il"
Were it not for an inveerate dislike to give in to
difficulties without doing his utmost to overcome
l .,t.1
THE DOCTOR DISSATISFIED.
The Doctor expresses dissatisfaction at the
manipulation which some or his sketches had
! undergone after he had sent them home. He thus
| expresses himself
After all my care and risk Of health and even of life it
s .ss
UP an upland region and passed over some a0n feet
hear hat the author Q, this
The .aa9re S2 BE- s Hdered
lie shows the folly OF thus intermeddling, aud
says that to his gentle remOnsuances he received
only giggle.n The Doctor was evidently in low
spirits when he pcnned this portion of his letter.
THE UNDERGROUND TRIBE.
II is In this letter the Doctor refers to the tribe
| tina. lives In underground houses in Rua-a matter
that has already excited the attention Of the curl
GUS and scientific. Some excavations are said to be
thirty miles long, have running rills In them, and q
whole district can stand a seige In them. The
..writingsn therein, the Doctor was told by some
| OF the people, are the wings Of ANIMALS and not
letters. The people were described very dark,
| well made and eyes santDgwards.
| LETTER TO DIR. KIRK AT ZANZIBAR-"CRAZY GEoG-
| RAPnERS.n
! On the 7th September 1869, DR.. John Kirk, at
! Zanzibar, received a letter from Dr. Livingstone
from the same place giving the date as July s,
1861. as those mentioned above, ana probably for
fhn. In
great explorer speaks little more plainly about
some home matters. He says
DIR. LIVINGSTONE TO DR. KIRK.
| shall not follow the Lualaba by canoes as We did
the Zambes from near the Victoria Falls the ZEBRA
bassa That insanity, and am going do
more mad Things merely 70 please geographers who
most diotic places where observed
or will observe in day." (ife then refers the