DR. LIVINGSTONE.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 3567, 24 June 1872, Page 3

DR. LIVINGSTONE.

A telegram we published recently stated that Dr Livingstone was safe with the New' York Herald’s 1 special commissioner. The following particulars regarding the expedition led by Mr Stanley, the gentleman in question, are from one of the last issues of Colburn’s New Monthly Magazine : Li the beginning of 1871, the American expedition for Dr Livingstone’s aid was in preparation in Zanzibar. Mr Stanley, the chief of that expedition, left Bagamoyo, on the coast, on the Ist April, 1871, and following a route somewhat to the northward of that taken by Burton, Speke, and Grant, arrived at Kihihava, on the basin of Thara. This is the same plain as that on which the Arab post of Eazeh stands, and it lies in the centre of the native district of Unyanyembe, more than two-thirds of the way from Zanzibar to Lake Tanganyika, and hence Mr Stanley dated his report. Mr Stanley appears however, to have obtained information about Livingstone, or some other white man, from Arab traders at various points of his journey from the coast to this station, both on the Uneerungeri river, called Lungerengeri by Speke, at'Mpwapa, Kusuri, and Kubuga, the Bubpga of Speke, not far from Eazeh. These traders described him as an old man with a long beard ahpost white, which description has led some, to question the identity, but tbe traders also gave other marks of identification which leave little doubt that Livingstone was meant. A year or two of such a climate, with no means, would effect a great change in the appearance of any man. One of these Arab traders says that he had seen him at Ujiji in 1870, and that then he was about to go to Marungu, south of Tanganyika and Untemi (Manyema?), which shews that Livingstone probably stayed at Ujiji until the beginning of 1870. Another knew that the white man had gone to Mantema (Manyema), but said that He had mot with a bad accident, and would return to Ujiji when ho had recovered; a third said that Livingstone’s men had deserted him, others confirmed the fact that he had gone across the lake early in 1870, and that he had accompanied an Arab caravan to Lake Manyema, a much larger water than Tanganyika. Unfortunately, there is superadded to all this that a caravan from Ukonogo, whkfii is presumed to be in the Manyema country, brought the news that ho was dead. This sad view of the subject would, taking all the circumstances of the case into consideration, and the long time that has elapsed since direct intelligence from the great traveller himself has been received, appear, however desponding, to be a very likely one s but, luckily, Mr Stanley reports having heard at Eazeh that Livingstone was on the road from Lake Manyema to

AJjtjiythe-sftidlake-beingdescribed-oa-fifteen-camps, or some hundred to % hundred and fifty miles south' sohth-wcst frOtn the western shore of Tanganyika.