The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1904-03-02

Landing at Cape Town he pushed north
to the missions already established. Here
he came under the influence OF the noted
missionary DIR. Mofratt whose daughter
he married and whom he Afterwards
buried in the wilderness 10 the North.
Feeling a need or moro active enort
among
THE TRIBES FURTHER NORTH,
he pressed forward into the wilderness.
warning tribes, establishing
native missions. teaching the rudiments
OF Christian civilization, finally discover
ing Lake N'gami and the Zambesi river
and then turning his face 10 the westward
savage beasts and still more
savage men he approached the west coast
OF Africa and I'm 1854 he stood upon the
shores OF the Atlantic at the Portuguese
settlement of Goanda. The route had
never been traversed. so far as any trust
worthy tradition went by any European.
Saws his biographer, He was poor
ragged skeleton when he reached those
who had hearts 10 feel for him and hands
TO help him. Had he not been a prodigy
OF faith and courage. had he not known
where TO find help in ala times or his
he would never have reached
the haunts OF civilized men
He had now spent IL years In mission
ary toll and effort among natives VINO
had never before heard the voice or
white man. lie had made discoveries
sufficient to lead the Royal Geographical
society TO grant him medal. lie had
discovered the pathway that commerce
might travel into Central Africa. He
was able by his reports to revolutionize
the popular opinion az TO the nature OF
the interior OF the Dark Continent. For
"a wears he had labored, starved. sickened
and exposed his life TO all kinds OF
dangers. Certainly he was entitled TO
sail away from the scene OF his labors
and gain rest and health on ms natlVe
shores. Nothing reveals the character
OF Livingstone more than his action under
these conditions.
After all the Illness and dangers he
had encountered" says his biographer'
Livingstone might quite honorably have
accepted a berth in one OF her maJesty
cruisers and returned TO England. BUT
the natives who had come with him from
the Rarotse country TO the Loander had
70 return. and Livingstone knew that they
were quite unable TO perform the journey
without him That consideration deter
mined his course. All the risks and dan
gers OF that terrible road--the attacks OF
fever and dysentery. the protracted abb
$ence OF those for whom he pined. were
not 10 be thought Of when he had a duty
to these poor men Furthermore he had
not yet accomplished his object. He mad
discovered no healthy locality for mis-
sion nor any exceptional highway TO the
sea for the purpose OF general traHc
He therefore left Loander on the gath
Of September. 1854. arrived at his old
quarters NJ Liuyanti in Central Africa on
the llth OF September, 1855. and In No
vember
STARTED FOR THE EASTERN COAST.
and on the goth OF May. 1855. reached
the Pacific at Quilimane. after having
crossed from sea to sea the Dark Cont
nent On his route eastward he dis
covered the Victoria falls, riyalling the
Niagara I'm extent and grandeur. and was
able TO make reports TO the Royal Geo.
graphical society in England that helped
to settle the question Of the physical con-
tour of the whole OF Africa.
In the fall OF 1856 he returned to Eng
land 10 find himself famous. The liberty
OF the city OF London was extended 10
him On the 18th OF December the Royal
society held a special meet
ing To welcome him. The president re-
ferred to the fact that he had travelled
over II 900 miles Of African ground. Sur
passing the French missionary travellers.
Hue and CADET, he had determined by
observations the site OF nu-
merous places. hills, rivers and lakes pre-
yiously unknown. He had seized every
of describing the physical
structure. geology and climatology Of the
traversed and making known
their natural products and capabilities.
He had asoertalned by experience what
had only been conjectured previously that
the interior OF Africa was a plateau In
tersected by various lakes and rivers, the
waters of which escaped 10 the eastern
and western ocean by deep rents In the
nanking hills. Great though these
achievements were. the most honorable
Of all Livingstone's acts had yet to be
mentioned-the fdelity that kept his
promise to the natives who having ac-
him to Ioander were recon
Quoted by him from that city TO their
homes"
He remained in England until 1858. a
little more than a year, during which
time he wrote, lectured and made prepara-
tons for his second voyage. This time
he was 10 proceed not under the direc-
tion OF the missionary soclesy. but as
the head of an expedition fitted out partly
AZ his own. expense. partly at the expense
OF the government. In passing from the
interior of the Continent eastward he
had followed the course OF the zambesi
river II was the intention or this ex-
peditiou to sail
Up THE zAMBEsI RIVER
and explore the country 10 the north.
For SIX years, In the face OF obstac cles
which would have coved an ordinary
man, Livingstone lsbored TO open up and
finally 20 colonize this region. He dis
covered Lake Nyasss. explored the Shire
valley and the Romuna river. but the ey-
pedition on the whole was a failure and
In 1864 he returned TO England. Return
ing In 1856 for the third and last time he
landed at Zanzibar. and pushed on again
TO the north. The object OF this eYpe-
dition was TO discover the watershed be-
tween northern and southern Africa and
TO locate N possible the sources OF Az
rica's great rivers. the Niger, tho Congo
and the Nile.
~ was during this expedition. lasting
from lS6o-lS1a. that he suffered his great
est priva lions. endured his longest soli-
tudes, was sought after and found by
stanley and finally Ia the heart OF the
wilderness surrounded only by his faith
ful natives. ended hts lebors only I'm death.
As one reads the story OF his sacrifices.
his privations. his incessant wanderings.
lasting over ~ years. one naturally asks
less about the routes he travelled and
more about the objects which ne had In
mind. What did lac hope TO accomplish
From the beginning OF his CAREER in
Africa Livingstone was dominated BY the
spirit OF an explorer. He had the mind