Year: 1872

Interest.


We present to the HzRALD readers to-day
the details Of the Livingstone Search Expedi-
ton 70 Central Africa, as rccounted by Its in
domitable leader As mere relations of personal
courage and perseverance amid exciting and
trying situations these letters will be read with
deep interest and pride by the American
people, and will be found of sufficient value to
reach, without the lapse Of a letter, every
country where civilization is more than q
name On this ground alone they will be
priced, and will bear out the olden aphorism
that 'truth Is stranger than fiction"
Narrated in clear, perspicuous English,
asan unvarnished and epitomized record of an
eleven months journey of over two thousand
miles through the haunts of savage beasts and
more savage men, these letters, or more
properly dispatches, contain as much infor-
nation as might be extended into quarto
volume Although in certain measure an
ticipated by the cable compendium from Lon
don, their perusal will lose none of it's edge
and piquancy. In addition to the main facts
already published, the history Of the journey
from Unyanyembe to Ujiji by circuitous
route is told. It will be remembered
in its advance by war between the Arab
traders and Mirambo, native king Of the
Wayowa tribe, the latter demanding extortion-
ate toll or blackmail on all caravans passing
through. Quitting the usual caravan track for
Ujiji, which lay at this point in northwesterly
direction, he plunged into the wooded country
towards the southwest. Reaching by this
means Ukononga, he made semioircle
to the north, and, crossing the Mala-
gariza River came once more on
the caravan track westward to Ujiji.
The whole country was at war, and he
was obliged to push in q northwesterly line
until he reached country named Uhha, noted
by Burton and Spoke. Another native war
was before him here. and, as on former occa-
sions, he was obliged to quit the road and
march through the Jungle This brought him
to the outskirts Of Ujiji and there took place
that romantic meeting with Livingstone which
will form group for the future as indestruct-
ible as the stoutest of stone and bronze.


In this exciting framework is set the gem of
the narrative, namely the story of the great
explorers travels, as told by himself. Truly
does the HERALD correspondent charac-
terize them as the story Of five years
travel, suffering and discoveries. The
great gaps which existed in our know
ledge of his movements from the day of
false account of his murder by the Mazitu,
to the present ore oil filed up, and what
record Of perseverance, patience and indomit-
able will does it not present? Like the echo
from q fairy tale comes the old mans story of
races almost white and of fine physique,
walled in as it were by the negroes
around them and dear to the students of gray
old classic lore comes the tale of the natives
bearing out the words of the oracle as to
fourfold fountain sources Of the mystic Nile.
But the actual discoveries which cost so
much of peregrination, inquiry, hopes, doubts,
Illusions nlisleadings and final successes, are
recounted also. He has first of all discovered,
as already intimated, that the great river
Chambezi, which rises somewhere near eleven
degrees south latitude and probably thirty
or thirty-three degrees east longitude, is
not the Portuguese Zambez, but the
true source of the Nile. After flowing north
and westward it runs into the great Lake Ban
geolo, which he discovers to be as large in area
as Tanganyika. Out of this river, the Lua-
pula, flows northward into lake Moero, in
about eight degree south latitude. Emerg-
ing from this the Lualaba, mighty
stream, runs generally northward and in
six degrees thirty minutes south latitude,
spreads out into Lake Kamalondo. Follow
ing this river northward he reached as far
as four degrees south latitude, still tracing the
course of the river, when, from sheer want of
Ujiji, where the HERALD Expedition
found him. From this statement of
his wonderful discoveries the vicissitudes
Of his travels cannot be imagined.
They were not gained with the same ease that
one might enter the Mississippi at New
Orleans and reach its source in Minnesota.
They were the result not merely of per-
sonal observation, but required several at
tempts and tortuous journeys, depending
for food here and information there upon
the natives and two expeditions. Striking
river here and tracing it to q lake, returning
for supplies; taking new direction to find
another river and lake, and then connecting
these with the former as the links Of
chain, is something of tho manner in
which he worked out the troublesome
truth. The unexplored portion Of the
Lualaba, or Nile, lies between four degrees
south latitude and one degree below the
Equator, where probably through Lake Albert
Nyanza of Baker it connects with the White
Nile and flows still northward, meeting the
Blue Nile and Atbara from the hills of Abys-
sinia, and continues in its wondrous stream