The New York herald., 1877-10-09
cAMERoNS PLUCK coMPLIMENTED.
Thwarted and Delayed by Sick
ness and Desertion.
UNDAuNTED BY DIFFICULTY and DANGER.
"A Very Strong Tribe Indeed That Can Turn
Us Back Now"
TRUSTING LUCK AND DARING FATE

KABrNpA, or CABENDA, WEST CoAsT or)
AFRICA, NEAR MOUTH OF CoNGo RIVER,
August 13. 1877
To THE ED1roRs OF THE New YORK HERALD
:, AND THE DAILY TELEonAPH:-
Mr.. Thomas II. Price, Of the great firm of
Messrs. Hatton d Cookson, Of Liverpool, is
about to go home to recruit his health after
. protracted stay on the West Coast of
Africa, and he has kindly offered his services
to take to England any dispatches or letters
may have for you. While l would gladly
avail myself Of this opportunity, still am
SO prostrated just now, and, I may say, SO
excited at the sight Of white faces, and the
scores Of Welcomes" hear, and 90 con-
fused with the good things Of this life they
press on me. that. with the keenest desire
to do my duty to you, 1 yet am constrained
to ask you not to exact too much from your
very willing servant, but to give him weeks
breath. Anything very imporsant Or, in
teresting relating to the discoveries have
made from the point where Livingstone left
of (Nyanswe in Manyema). shall defer
until my nerves. strained so long. have
become little more composed.
Isend you duplicates of letters written at
Nyangwe, and despatched to the East Coast
by couriers of Mohammed bin Said, Novem-
Der, 1876, just ten months ago. The
originals may not have arrived in Europe,
in which case you may publish the dupli-
Gates
CONGRATULATIONS AND THANKSGIVING.
cannot refrain from congratulating you
upon the perfect success which has attended
the explorations Of the Anglo-American ex-
pedition despatched by you from Zanzibar.
The instructions, though onerous, have been
faithfully and literally performed. These.
must remind you, were to complete the
discoveries of Captain j. HAnning Spoke
and Captain tnow- ColoneD Grant Of the
sources of the Nile; to circumnavigate lakes
victoriaand Tanganyika, andby the explora-
tions of the latter lake to complete the dis
soveries Of Captains Burton and Speke,
md, lastly, to complete the discoveries of
Or. Livingstone.
With feeling of intense gratitute to
Divine Providence, who has SO miraculously
saved me and my people from the terrors of
slavery, from the pangs Of cruel death at
the hands of cannibals, after five months
daily toll through ffty-seven cataracts,
falls and rapids-who inspired us with man.
illness sufficient to oppose the hosts of saw
ages, and, out of thirty-two battles, brought
us safe across unknown Africa to the Allan
tic Ocean-I inform you that the work of
tho Anglo-American Expedition which you
commissioned me to perform has been per-
formed to the very letter. Other axplora-
tions we imposed on ourselves, but their
successful prosecution depended on your
means, and the fruits of all our long labors
are due to you.
GREAT HIGHWAY OF COMMERCE..
Large rs the number of cataracts and
rapids mentioned above may be, we have
discovered that the great highway of COM
merce to broad Africa is the Congo, and
happy will that Power seem which shall Sc
cure for itself a locality tor depot at the
extreme limit of the navigation of+he Lower
Congo, and establish there people such as
the freed slaves, to assist it in enriching it.
self, the poor races employed in the SER
vice, and the redemption of the splendid