The New York herald., 1877-10-10


proclaimed their antiquity. their grand old age,
their superiority and their imperturbablity. They
appeared to say:--"Centuries ago were we sown.
Silent serene and undsturbed we grew. We
know no strife. contention or passion Of your
world Though born OF the earth, fed and nourished
BY it, yet we unaffected with the fate OF things
on the earth. We are 500 years old. Where vast
thou atom Of restless humanity, when we were
borns WHAT art thou but brief accident, slight
as the dead leaves under thy ieets Go and tell
your kind you have seen sIlence"'
DwARFs AND cHIAPANzEEs.
But really Manyema woods are exceedingly SOL
emn. shall probably see more OF them Us travel
west. l am told by those who have penetrated
some distance into them that they contain any
numbers or sokos (gorillas Livingstone Informed
me that these sokos are gorias have not seen
any yet; have only heard their hoarse cries In the
woods; but from the descriptions given OF them
they are chimpanzees. Other singular creatures OF
these forests are said to be the dwarfs, whose
heights have been varousy given from thirty inches
to four feet. They are evidently nomads,
range. They are said to be exceedingly
fond OF meat, all creatures furnishing
them with the means OF existence, from On ele-
phant to rat. They are more attached to the pur-
suit OF the elephant than any other, probably be-
cause Of the abundance Of meat those animals sup
ply. Their weapons are poisoned arrows, whose
deadly erect is so feared by the wanguana that
they have renounced all intention to molest them
any more. While In the new region to which am
bound shall endeavor to obtain personal know
ledge Of the sokos and the dwarfs.
''wHAT5 IN A NAMEw
The name OF Manyema has become very familiar
to readers OF late African travels. The word Is
pronounced In various ways-Manyema, Manu-
yema, Many-wena, but believe Man-yenia is the
most popular. l take 1t to be corruption
OF Mana, or Mwana.Y Yema-ths son Of
Yema 1t Is rare We near Of the proper
names OF countries IN this region Thus we
are told Kabanubarri is Mwana.Kusu, Kzam-
bala Is Mwana-Ngoi Tubanda is known to most
people under the name OF ana-Mamba. We
have also Mwana- Kidenda, Mwana-Marumbu,
Mwana- -Melenge or Merenae &c. 1t is not very
thousand square miles. About halt OF 1t is spread
over with dense woods; the more southern hall is
embraced by the broad Luama Valley and the fine
open country OF Uzura The hills are without
fho fact Of thot nj vyhi
formed Lake Tanganyika. In certain localities the
streams run over lava beds and iron ore, which has
the aspect OF being smelted.
But Manyema is not SO interesting nor fourth
as large as Uregga 1t Is difficult to enter into any
details about o country as yet but partially ex-
plored, but from the descriptions gwen Of It's
mountains and hills. and or the many large rivers
which intersect it, l have a strong conviction
Uregga would repay exploration. Uregea, like
Manyema, consists OF small districts governed by
Independent Chiefs
HOW THEY ARE CONFUSED.
TIE "Lualaba" is ON instance among many in his
nomenclature could furnish you Of Lvingstone's
excessive partialty for the letter B. According to
the natives it should be prohounced Lu.al-awa, not
rnalaba, but foreign tSngdes, Win steir respect.
i've innuences-thst OF the Arab slaves over the
Araps the Arabs over the white traveller the white
traveller over his countrymen-have gwen US .
choice OF names.
When Moeni Dugumbi's slaves first entered Man
yema they thought they heard the great river
called U-ga-owa, whereas the natives no doubt
said Lu-a-awa or Lu-aluwa The slaves, returning
to their master, Dugumbi, said they had seen sea-
like river called U-ga-lowa
Dugumbi IL interested at once, and repeats, in
terrogatiyely, "Uga-rowa" by which we find
Ugalowa Is changed to Ugarowa Dugulnbi writes,
In his letters to his friends at Uuiand Unyanyemoe,
about Ugarowa. Arab slaves convey tidlngs
wherever they go OF Ugalowa Mohamined BIN
Gharib brings Livingstone with him from Ujij who
is destined to give the RIVER another name On the
the native name Lu-ar-awa. His dislike OF the Arab
and the slave hunter causes him to reject, and
rightly, the corrupted term Ugalawa, or Ugarowa
but he cannot resist giving the word Livingston
awa-but Luaa-ba
LIVINGSTONE RIVER.
II geographers left 1t to me to decide what name
should be given it most heartily would ! beseech
them to let It be called Livingstone River or LIv-
ingstone's Luaaba, to commemorate his discovery
OF IT and his heroic struggles against adversely 10
axnlore IL At the prese Mt dry season the river
here is about one thousand yards wiae; during the
monsoon or rainy season 1t extends to about two
miles in width at Nyangwc.
Three days from date propose to set out In
northerly direction, through Urcgga, occasionally
striking the Lualaba, to maintain an acquaintance
with It, and continue northeriy to the utmost OF
my limits, means and power
HENRY M STANLEY.