Year: 1872




The discoverer has at last been discovered and
Vhe inquisitive mind of our race once more finds
itself ON the track OF the great problem which has
occupied geographers-and many besides geog-
Taphers-since the beginning Of history. There
- not only news, bat letters from DR.. Living
stone still at their date able, ardent, hopeful and
persevering The great traveller has learned to
laugh at despair, and In the prospect Of utter
destituti0n In the midst Of savage and barbarous
tribes only new and ridiculous phase Of his sim
gular career. 1t appears to have been q matter Of
comparative indifference to DR.. Livingstone
whether he had to distribute the gifts of
civilization to tribes fully able to appreciate
them to supplicate aid and hospitality from
chiefs who cannot 80 well appreciate his errand.
Reduced to q mere 'ruckle of bones," fo0tsOre,
plundered by everybody OF everything and having
no choice but to trust those who could not be
trusted he stil last February, rejoicing in the
hope Of describing one day to the civilized world
the great watershed of Southern Africa. Much
more he has to describe, but, pursued by the old
fRte Of African explorers, he has found himself
driven back at the most interesting point Of his
discoveries. Six hundred miles Of the mysterious
watershed he had traversed, but so far has had to
renqulsh the remaining hundred, the most interest
Sag Of the ov whole whence from Old as
rtvers-two running northward towards Egypt,
two southwark into inner Ethiopia Or. Living





vision had been before him: he had been assured
Of Its certainty and it had become the real home
cheated by servants and mercantile agents. at
downright war with slave-dealng Sultans, and
with MS supplies equally disspated on the the Journey
neving it within reach. We are permitted to hope
and who in q charmed region himself bears
charmed life, will one day return and supply the
then is hard to be conceived. They who live
At home know how much they are dependent on
common comforts for even such slight work as cor
respOndence or q journal. The work which half the
world now expects, and will certainly read when it
appears has to be substantially composed in
ance and sagacity to retain ones life and senses
and to advance half dozen miles day.


derful as anything even in Dr. Livirgstone's own
adventures and fortunes II there be one thing we
should have thought beyond the power of any soil
the interior of Africa looked for simply because
not heard Of For years have people at home been
indulGing in the widest guesses as to the posi-
ton and the possible plans and intentions OF DR..
Livingstone, and Mr.. Stanley seems to have struck
on his trail at once with the instinct OF Red
Indian. Geographical societies have met and met,
and talked and talked, and an expedition has been
BY far the most probable account Of the long silence
was that the great traveller had met with the too
common fate Of travellers; indeed, it had been
positively and crcumstantially related An enter
prisng newspaper proprietor picks his man and
asks him to go and look for Livingstone. Fortu-
X.
He sets OF and does it while others are idly
talking or slowly planning. Africa is very wide
but Mi snoas H. s %as at e.
lose ones self in indeed DR.. Livingstone is one
more instance Of that but not that It was Q
country in which you could look for man. find
him in the crowd OF market place, and accOst him
with, ~ presume it is DR.. Livingstone am speak
sve success the sudden and early collapse OF the
"expeditiOn" presents ludicrous contrast. We
have no wish to be hard on Mr. New and his associ-





DIR. Livingstone, placed on Saturday in the adjoin-
s srsea se All W
Zanzibar, after the official relations Of the men,
bers had been carefully and distinctly de-
Perhaps the men were III assorted, but they
knew it, and took 1t all into account. In crossing
they got rough tossing and ducking, and on land
ing the next day found they had been anticipated,
Ordinary readers, whose spirits have not been
broken by night at sea In an open boat, and
whose tempers have not been rufied by few
hours OF isorted companionship, will perhaps
think that the expedition" was to be congratu-
lated, inasmuch as it had got the scent at once
must have understood, we should think, and even
hoped as a condition OF success, that it would one
DAY have certain and and reliable news sol of DE-; y:
valuable, because leading to the object itself.
OF being easy and distracted by no doubt. We
cannot conceive why it did not proceed just as 1t
vas and under the original name-"the Living



had got to find Livingstone and nelp him; nay, for
sught we know, he may have perished long before
was sent to give II 1t could find him. These gentle
men, however, assumed at once that there was no
longer searGn 70 oe ma1e wr, Tngs,ohe ne mao
TO be relieved, and whether those who had pledged
themselves to look for him and relieve him were
bound by that pledge TO relieve him now they knew
where he was. We really should have thought there
was no doubt about it. However, they began TO
debate, to back out, to make objections, and one





or as IT is ingeniously put TO decline the simple
conduct OF supplies. Mr. New had With some dim.
Guilty seen his way to 0 search" but thought
'reef' hardly sufficient to call for the sacrifice of
his ordinary employment or Of meditated return
We shah probably hear no more Of the ''expedi-
tton. If not 1t viii have to stano some unpleasant
But even we never see DR.. Livingstone again
one great Illusion is dspelled and the long mys-
e ca is no %
his way under difficulties, and survive to be
iSu1aa, ons and even to o, ten his tale. even
roguery and barbarism. Could a solitary man
traverse any other quarter of the world and
live TO tell his taller Certainly he could not make
his way without money or friends. II we are to
judge from the present rate OF progress, the next
generation, or at least the next after will see
railway right across the great watershed of
Southern Africa, Joining the two oceans. The
orra zone 10. e mae "a 6earae aSr are t ss people
fertile, the native races quite as amenable
toproper treatment as native races usually
half his life there, and evidently thinks
that II we can get the Portuguese and
the half caste Moslems to leave the people alone
thew may be made a good deal os-at least made
good friends. Should that time come, tie name OF
Livingstone will have place among earths found.
ers aud beneactors Fifty years ago II was Thought
as impossible to open up Africa as to break through
the wall Of China or make landing in Japan
These and twenty other impossbilities have since
been tried and overcome. We shall one day enter
the heart OF Africa and wonder that it should ever
be mystery. II may even prove a nearer and more





habitabe regions. That we can even call this pos
Sibe we owe TO Or. Livingstone.


From the London Telegraph, July 2oI


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