The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-01-07
LIvlNGsToNE's LAST JOURNALS.


The London Stan lard says: 'Dr. Living
stones last journals have juAt made Their
appearance, at'e delay which, considering
lhcir ex' ent and the difficulty OF decipherlng
them, has bren siagu,ar'y thor'. Thanks
to his faithful attendarts, there is reason TO
be- ieve tnat not Que line of the great travel
er's writing has ,sen 10 t. from the time OF
his leaving Zanzibar, In the beginning OF
1856, to the day when his notebook dropped
from his dying hand. in April OF last year.
The difficulties Of The. great exrl'rer IN wri-
ting and preserving these most valuable
records cab hardly be overestimaied Some
are contained In copy books, many more
IN me. slic pocket hooks. and some again in
large Lett's diaries. When the supply Of
writing paper was shorr The travellers in
gsnuity supplied the de6c ency. and odd
newspaper as Mr.. Waller tells US, 3el 'ow
with African damp. were sewn together,
and hts notes wr item ocross tue type with
= substitute FIR ink made from the Juice OF
tree Among tie iltus,rntious--which we
may observe. by 'le wa. are not quite so
ssnsationaliy piclurssqus as in SONS recent
Books Of African travel-is photolitho-
graphic reproduction off page of one of lheso
Interesting books. A fragment Of the st. n
dsrd OF the 24th Of November, 1859, 10
crossed with sorne very carefui notes written
lee HARnpl FIR tn
rial on VIII ch II Is based is rsed to dye WI
ambos' and to orr &ment TIE faces Of the
people OF The tut; rior For such purposes
1t may be, and doubtless ls, very u III, 0nI
~ INK 1t is somewhat If failure, f,dlng
with time, and f'om the appearance of ,hc
fac-simile, running into the paper peru-
larry provoking m4nhs,. la spite Of all me
difficulties at ndant upon the &ask Of deci-
phering al enotmJ az mass # manuscript oi
this ch1iaCi er tue work has be, Ii most sue
cessfully performed, and Mr. Waie. 10 allie
10 say vita truth tuat IL me- record Of seven
years Of coAlln 4ous labor aud exploration
no break Whatever occurs Wh,n Mr..
Stanley re-. urned to Fog and. in 1872 he
brought win him very Ia.ge diary IN Addl-
lion to those let'srs when were lntruSl ed
to the md, IA, igablc correspondent WING had
gone to DIR. Livlngstone's re!,f THIS VOL
ger possible 70 enc tam donbt as to the
death of DR. L,v nSstone 1t wus opened,
and from 1t are prln ed, as we z. uor, the
earlier portions of The present 70 umes
The latter were Of necessity colated from
tie pocket books begun at buth ends, and
utilized ss to the MIDDLE far calculations
private memoranda, words FIR v0cabularles,
and Similar material But FIR the sensibe
hsbit OF the coctor f putting tne day Of the
mOhlh and the yea 10 every entry ali ould
have bet n inextrIcabe confuslon As things
are, his literary execu, ors have hern aLle TO
preserve complets ard CONTINUOUS record
Vt his career during tie last seven ears, and
10 present il To the public in al mi eligible
and Interesting form. Tie diaries and let
ters brought home by Mr. Stanley ara Lot,
indeed, Wpoly superst ded, but they arc
largely supplemented, and tue more scierl-
tlhe details are carefully Ill ed in. Even in !
The present volumes, howe Yer. those geo
graphical, meteorological, baromeLrieal and
hypsometrical observations winch ms doctor
SO regularly made find N place. \ separate
publication IS reserved for them-very wise
~, as "os' rsa ers viii b. apt 20 thiLk.
The work which is now oHeied to tue world
contal SIMPLY the personal nara i've oil
I he lGst sew years uf he life If the greatest
Africah explorer The world has ever known"