HOW DR LIVINGSTONE WAS FOUND.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 4255, 10 December 1881, Page 3

HOW DR LIVINGSTONE WAS FOUND.

According to the Philadelphia Public Ledger, Selim Hershmah, the young Arab sheik who acted as a guide for Stanley during tbe latter' s Afrioan explorations and search for Dr Livingstone, has been found in Boston by a representative of the Boston Herald. Selim Bays no horses or mules were used during the journey, and the natives were not able to keep up with Stanley's pace, whose powers of endurance and fasting were phenomenal. Stanley bad to pay tribute to the tribes through whoso possessions he passed, and refusing to give a few yards of calico to King Amdazo a battle ensued, in which fifty of Stanley's followers wero killed. Stanley afterwards became sick, disheartened, frequently remarked that Livingstone must be dead anyway, and spoke of abandoning the 1 , search. Selim thus tells the story of the discovery of Livingstone : —•• One day I 1 started out towards the west, and after several days' tramp fell in with Abdullah Ben Sulieman, an Arab, who told mo he had 1 heard tbat Livingstone was somewhere north, but close to Lake Tanganyika. ' I pushed ahead, and two months later, with 1 Abdul Ben Hamels, another Arab, met Dr Livingstone, face to face, near the lake. Tho ! Doctor looked worn out and very old, aud in 1 conversation be ssked how I happened in tho country. I told him ; but upon my telling 1 him that Stanley, an American, was searching 1 for him, he frowned. Ho seemed to feel that ' it would have been better if an Englishman 1 had oomo after him, and was quite displeased * that it was au Amorican. I found that the | Doctor would be in Ujiji in a few months, 1 and I hastened back to Stanley, wbo was 1 more discouraged than ever. Ho would not | believe I had seen and talked with Living--1 stone, and even then spoke of turning back. ' After muoh persuasion tho expedition started 1 out, and in due time, after many obstac I*^1 *^ 5 and dangers, reached Ujiji, upon entering ' which phco wo were met by Dr Livingstone's k native servants. The Doctor afterwords, with 1 several Arabs, came forward, and I soon 3 pointed him out to Stanley, who even then 1 seemed to doubt me. Both looked for > nearly half an hour at one anothev before either spoke. Stanley has not } told tho truth rolativo to tho toast £ drunk between Livingstone and himself at tho J latter'B hut. It was thn last bottle of * champagne Stanley had, and I brought it * out. Stanley offered the toaßt, 'Here's to J England ond America ! ' I interrupted with, * 'and Arabia.' Stanley and Livingstone * looked at one another, clinked glasses, and B drank tho toast, 'To England, America, and Arabia.' This it the truth, and I felt satisfied, aa I thought that Arabia had dono as r much to find Livingstone as Stanley did." r In regard to Stanley's present expedition -to Africa, Belim says that he received a letter 9 from Stanley asking him to go as a guide. He J refused, for tbe reason that ho had got enough * of Africa. Selim says that the present I expedition is private, and that, although it is 1 ostensibly under tbe patronage of Belgium, yet England bus a lurking interest in its results. There is no doubt but Stanley's life hope ia to fix the source of the Nile, but tho chances are against his success. "Ho is a B man who never made friends with the , Natives, and on his former trip his followers 3 conspired to kill him, but were dissuaded. I do not believe he will survivo his present ) expedition." 1 = I Rbhabeablh Uses of thh J elkgbafh. — I It appears that iu Norway tho erection of 3 the tolegraph poles and wires Bufiiccs to j scaro away wolves, and that many miles , have been erected with the double purpose j of securing rapid intercommunication and of - clearing the districts of tho " night prowler." In Soandinavia, whole Provinces havo been cleared of tho grey wolf simply by the erection of telegraph polos and wires. If tho telegraph has banished ono ''enemy," howj ever, it has attracted others, some of which 3 unconsciously, and with waßted labour, help i to destroy tho telegraph itself. Moßt persons aro familiar with tho singing noi*c produced j by the action of tho wind on tbo wires, j and in this country tho birds appear lo un--1 derstand it too ; but in Norway tho wood- . peekers aro not yet sullu'iently educated, for z in ono night thoy often peck holes quite r through tho poles, and ruin them an supj ports for the telegraph wires. The explma- . tion is that the birds h»vo mistaken t.ho ! humming of tho wiroo for the buzzing of iub sectc, and in their endeavours to reach tbo s anticipated feast havo pecked tho posta right 5 through, only to be disappointed. The vibra- - tion of the wires communicates itself to the i poles, aud the birds aro deceirod by ti.e . sounds producod in tho wood— un cxphumt tion which is feasible, because il is known . that spiders uro similarly deluded by ribratr ing a tuning-fork noar their wobs, whon they [ rush out, in the hope of securing tho fly i which they imagine is producing tho buzzing I | noise.