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; ; LIVINGSTONE'S LETTERS CONTINUED FROM THIRD PAGE. hood. I might then have gone back and deposea fand Awathe, bat nis would have required ¢ or six months and in that time, or perhaps less time, at least, I had reason to hope that the exploration would be finished and my return would up Albert Lake and Ge ed instead of the ary part of Manyema ans aba I already knew perfectly. The desire to finish the geographical ‘of my work was, and 18, most intense every e My family comes into my mind. I also hoped as usual, ere long I should gain influence over my attendants, but I never had experience with Banian Moslem slaves vefore, who had imbibed Uittle of the Mohammedan religion but its fulsome and whose previous employment had been ing Arab debtors somewhat like the low- est class of our sheriff officers. AS We went across the second great bend of the Lualaba they showed themselves to be all accom- plished ss i tag ag being kilied and eaten by ema. induce me to spend all the goods and return, they refused to go Beyond a point far down the gimost in mans of the end towards which I strained. now tried. to stop further progress by false- and they found at a nee. of Ujijian and maip- Arabs a pumber of willing helpers to propa- the slander “that I wanted neither ivory nor but a canoe to kill Manyema.” QOan it be red at that people who had never seen rs before, or even heard of white men, be- Lualaba, where I was wed them? this slander, and the cerem: ¥ wiring. Dl with the head men, the mal a and Ujijian Arabs secured nine pet whilo I id not purchase one. But four days below this part narrows occur, in which the hty river is compressed by rocks, which jut in, not opposite to other, but alternately; and the water, rush- ‘twg round the promontories, forms terrible whirl- terry which overturned one of the canoes and 80 mc ifled the whole party that by deceit preceded thi ey returned without ever thinking of the canoes past the diMculty. I a have dove to ga the confluence of the Lo- mame, some fifty les Velow, and thence ascend through Lake Lincoln to the ancient fountains be- yond the copper mines of Katanga, and this would @early finish my geographical work, But it was so able that the dyke which forms the narrows Id be prolonged into Lomame that I resolved to. turn towards this great river gonsiderably above the narrows, aud where the pees ees Lualaba and Lomame 1s about y miles. friend, named Dugumbe, was reported to be coming from Ujiji with a catavan of 200 guus and pine undertraders with their people, The Banian slaves refused dnty three times, and the sole Teason they alleged for their mutiny was fear of Solng where “there were no Moslems.” The loss Of all their wages was & matter of no importance to any one except their masters at Zanzibar. Asan Englishman they knew I would not beat or chain them, and two of them frankly avowed that all the; needed for obedience was a free man to thras! them. ¢ slave tradera all sympathized with them, for they hated my being present to witness their atrocities, The sources of the Nile they knew ‘to bea sham; to reveal their slaving was thy true object, and dread. being “written against.” I therefore waited three months for Dugambe, who eared to be a gentleman, and oifered 4,000 id & canoe on Lo- Se and; afterwards, all the goods I belleved I . ‘at Ujiii, to enable me to finish what I had to do ‘without the Banian slaves. His first words to me were, ‘ your own slaves are your greatest enemies. I hear everywhere how they have bailed yu.’ He agreed to my proposition, but required @ fow days to-consult his associates, Two days afterwards, or on the 13th of June, a massacre was perpetrated which filled mo with - such intolerable loathing that J resolved to yield ‘to the Banian slaves, return to Ujiji, fet men the coast, and try to finish the rest of my work by golng outside the area of Ujijian bloodshed inste: of vainly trying from its interior outwards. Duguinbde’s peonle built their huts on the right bank of the Lualal ‘at @ market: place called Nyanwe. On he: that the b slave of @ trader at vit had, in order to get canoes cheap, mixed biood with he head men of the nya on the left bank, they ited with his assurance, and resolved to h bin and make an impression in the country favor of their own greatness by an assault ob ket ple and on all the Bagenya who had make friendship with any but themselves, lo, the principal rndertrader of Dagumbe's , was the perpetrator. The market was at- every fourth day i between 2,000 and 3,000 ple, It was held on a long slope of land which, at the river, ended in a creek capable of con- , faining betweon fifty and sixty large canoes. The maja ity of the market people were women, many of them very pretty. The people west of the river Brought fish, salt, pepper, oll, grass-cloth, tron, fowls, goats, sheep, pigs, {n great numbers’ to ex: change with those east of the river for cassava Re, potatoes and other farinaceous products. yy have a strong sense of natura! justice, and all ‘unite in forcing each other to fair dealing. At first my presence made them all afraid, but wishing to gain their confidence, which my enemies tried to ‘andermine or prevent,1 went among them fre- quently, and when they saw no harm in me became Yery gracious; the bargain! Was the finest act- tug lever saw. J understood but few of the words that flew off the glib tongues of the women, but $heir geaturea spoke plainly. I took sketches of the fiftcen varieties of fish brought in, to compare them with those of the Nile farther down, and all ‘Were eager to tell their names. But on the date re- ferred to Thad left the market only a minute or two when three men whom I had seen with guns, and felt inched to reprove them for bringing them into the market place, but had refrained by attribut- = Ae to Ignorance in new comers, be; to fire the dense crowd around them. Another party, down at the canoes, rained their bails on the panic- ck multitude that rushed into theso vosscls, i threw away their goods, the men forgot their paddies, the canoes were jammed in the creek and could not be got. out quick enough, so many men and women sprung tuto the water. The womerof the leit bank are expert divers for oysters, and a line of. heads showed a crowd striking out for an isiand a mile off; to gain it they had to turn the Jeft shoulder against a current of between a mile anda half to two miles aubour. Had they gone @lagonally with the current, though that woula have been three miles, many would have gained tho shore. It was horrible to see one he: fret disappear, some calmly, others throw- their arms up towards tne Great 7 of all, and golug down. Some of the men whe got canoes out of the crowd paddled quick, with hands and arms, to help their friends; three took L now. in till they allsank together. One man had clearly tost bis head, for he paddled a canoe which would have beld fifty people straight up eam bowhere., The Arabs estimated the loss at ween four and five hundred souls. Dugumbe @ent out some of lus men in one of thirty canoes which the owners in their fright could not extri- cate, to save the sinking. Une lady refused to be taken on board because she thought of his own accord sent them next day home. Many escaped their friends. When the firing began on the terror- stricken crowd at the canoes, began their assault on the people on the west of ‘tbo river and continued the fre ail day. I counted seventeen villages in fames and next day six. Lu- be’s power over the underlings ts liinited, but ordered them to cease shootiug. Those in the market were so reckless they shot two of their own Bumber, Tagamoio’s crew came back next day, in wanoes, shouting and firing of their guns as ii be- | Meving that they were wortny of renown. Next day about twenty head men fled from the | ‘west bank and came to my house, There was no @ocasion now to tell them that the English had no esire for human biood, They begged bard that I @bould go over with them and settle with them, @nd arrange where the pew dwellings of cach .@houid be. I was so ashamed of the bloody Moslem ompany in.which 1 found myself that | was unable fo look at the Manyema. 1 confessed my grief and -sbame, and was cntreated, if I must Fo not to Jeaye them now. Pugumbe spoke kindly to them, ‘and would protect them as Well as he could against bis own people; but when I went to Tagamvio to ask back the wives and daughters of some of the head men, he always ran of and hid himseif, This Massacre was the most terrible scene | ever | ww. I cannot describe my feclings, and am thauk- that ] did not give way to then, but by Dugum e's advice avoided a bioody feud with men Who, for the time, seemed jurned into demons, The whole Gransaction was the more deplorable, inasmuch @s we have always heard from the Manyema that #hough the men o! the districts may be engaged in actual hostilities. the women pass from one mar- | ‘Ket place to another with their wares and were mever known to be molested. The change ome Only with these ulien Lioodbouuds, and all Dioodshed has taxen piace in order. that ca Might be seized where tt could be done with out danger, and tu order that the siaving privileges | @1 @ petty sultan should produce abundant fruit. Heartsore and greatly depressed in spirits by the Many instances of “man’s tnhumxnity to man” I had epg ar ad seen, lcommeuced tue loug, weary a@ramp to U,s{], with the blazing Girt it overhead, ‘The mind acted on the body, an statement to say that almost every stop of between ur hundred pnd five hundred inlles' was in pan. felt as if dying on my feet, and I came very near to death in a more summary way. It te,within the Grea of bloodshed that danger alone occura. 5 could not induce my Mosiem slaves to vert.ture out- Bide Ulat area Or spl They knew better than J aid, “Was Managed not the greatest o! es aud thelr prophet” Abdut inidway back to Bambarre we came to vil Jages where 1 had for: ly seen the young men compelled to carry a trader’sivory. Wuen op the scene the young men bad laid down the tusks and said, ‘Now we have helped you so far without pay, iet the men of other villages 0 a8 moch.” ‘No, no, take up the ivory; and tuke & 2 they did, only to go a little way and cast it Jnto the dense vegetation on each side the path we afterwards know 60 well. When the trader reacted Die vext stage he sent back tis men to demand the “stolen”? ivory, and when the elders denied the theft they were fired upon and five were killed, eleven women and children captured, and aiso twenty-five goate. The remaining elders then talked the matter over, and the young men pointed out the ivory and carried it twenty-two miles afte the trader, He chose to say that three of the tusks were missing, and carried awa: all the souls and goats he had captured. They now turned wo the ouly regource tucy 2 alter | that she was | to be made a slave; but he rescued twenty-one, and | d and came to me, and were restored to | ‘agamoio's band | has | it ts no over. | knew, and when Dugumbe passed, and led one of his a our return #ve ee! another camp of mm traders, ‘me to allow their men to join my patty. ‘These included seventeen men of Manyema wh had volunteered to carry ivory to Ujiji and goods back again, These were the very first of the Man- ema who had in modern times gone fifty miles rom their birthplaces, As all the Arabs had been enjoined by Sayed Majid, the late Sultan, to show me all the Kindiess in their power, | could not de- cline their request. My party was imcreased to eighty, and 6 tag ine ol men bearing eiephants’ tusks gave us all the appearance of traders, The only cloth I had left some months before conststed of two red blankets, which were converted into a glaring dress, mebeceming encase, but there were no Puropegns to see it. The maitreated men, now burning for revenge, remembered the drees, and very naturally tried to kill the man who had murdered tielr relations. They would hold no parley, We had to pass through five hours of forest, with vegetation so dense that ping down and peering towards the sun al slight rustle in the rank vegetation was a spear thrown from the shadow of an infuriated man. Vor People in front peered into every little opening jhe dense thicket before they would venture past it: this detained the rear, and two persons near to me were slain. A large spear lunged past close behind; avother missed me by about a foot in front. Coming toa part of the forest of about a hundred yards cleared for cultivation, I observed been applied e that fire had to one of the gigantic trees, made etill higher 7 growing on an anthill twenty or more feet high. Hearing the crack that told the fire had eaten through, I felt that there was no danger, it looked 80 far away, till it apneared coming right down toward me. 1 ran a ifw paces back, and it came to the ground only one yard off, broke in several lengths, and covered me with a cloud of dust. My attendants ran back, exclaiming, * Peace, peace! you wil finish your work in spite of all these people, and in spite of everything.” I, too, took it as an omen of good that I had three narrow escapes from death in one d: The Manyema are Sd ed in throwing the spear, ‘and as 1 had a glance of him whose spear missed by legs than an inch behind, and he was not ten yards off, 1 was saved clearly by the good hand of the poocary ah § Preserver of men, I can say this devoutly now, but in running the terrible gauntlet for five Weary hours among furles all eager to signalize themselves by slaying one they sineerely believed to have been guilty of a horrid outrage, no elevated sentiments entered the mind. The excitement fre way to overpowering wearivess, and I ielt ag suppose soldiers do on the field of battle—not courageous, but perfectly indifferent whether I were killed or not. On coming to the cleared plantations belongin, to the next group of v! es all lay down to res! and I soon saw their headman walking unarmed in a stately manner toward us. He had heard the vain firing of my men into the dense vegetation and came to inguire the cause. When he had con- sulted his elders he sent an offer to me in the even- ing to coliect all his people, and if I lent him my opie who had guns he would bring me ten goats Instead of three milch ones I had lost. Iagain ex- lained the mistake under which his next neigh- pors labored, and as he anderstood the whole case he wag ready to admit that my joining in his an- cient feud would only make matters worse. In- deed, my old Highland blood had been roused by the wrongs which hia foes had shffered, and all through I could not help sympethizing with them, I was the especial object of their revenge. ko. DAVID LIVINGSTONE, Her Majesty's Consul, Inner Africa, Letter No, 5=Dr. Livingstone to Dr. Kirk. Usis1, October 30, 1871. Smr—] wrote on the 25th and 23th current two very hurried letters, one for you and the other for Lord Clarendon, whichwere forwarded to Unyan- yembe, Ihad just reached thts place thoroughly jaded in body and mind, and found that your agent, Shereef Bosher, bad sold off all the goods you sent for slaves and ivory for himself. He had divined on the Koran and found that I wasdead. He also wrote to the Governor of Usyanyembe that he had sent slaves to Manyema, who returned and reported my decease, and he wished the permission of the Governor to sell the goods. He, however, knew from mon who camo from me in Manyema that 1 was near Ujijiat Bambarre, and waiting for him and supplics; but when my friends here protested against the sale of my goods he invariably an- swered, ‘You know nothing about the matter. I alone know that the Consul ordered me to remain one month at Ujij, and then sell of and return.” When I came he eaid that Ludha had so ordered him. From tbe Banian slaves you sent I learn tha t Ludha went to Ali bin Salem Buraschid, a person J notoriously dishonest, and he recommended Shereef Bosher as leadcr of the caravan. No sooner did ho obtain command than he wentto Muhamad Nassur, who furnished twenty-five boxes of soap and eight cases of brandy, to be retailed in the course of the journey inland. At Bagomoyo Shcreef got a quan- tity of opium and gunpowder from two Banians there, whose names aré unknown to me. In their house Shereef broke the soap boxes and stowed the contents in my bales; the brandy cases were kept entire, and pagazi employed to carry them and the opium and gunpowder, apd paid out of my bales. ¢ Banians and Shereef had interposed thelr own trade 8 tion between two government ofi- cers, an por niibe = wae eapeuees of pov) journey we efay: out of my supplies, an Sheree was able send back to hls accom- ed five Per ienshiniieet dete Fat et value gome sixty pounds; the pagar! in paid by me. He was in no hurry to aid me, bute ent four teen montis in traversing @ distance that could easily have been accomplished in three. If we de- duct two months for detention by sickness, we have still twelve months, of which nine were de- voted to the private iuterests of the Banians and Shereef. He ran riot with my goods, buying the best provisions» and drink the country afforded; lived in my tent till it was so rotten and full of holes 1 never could use it once; remained two months at three several places retailing brandy, opium, gunpowder, and soap; and these being finighed,.on reaching Ujiji he would go no further. Here it was commonly reported he lay drunk for s a month at @ ime; the duro pombe and palm toddy all bought with my fine samsam beads. He issued twenty-four yards of calico per month for mself, eight yards for each of his staves, elght yards for his woman, and eight yards for Awathe, the other head man: and when he sent seven of the Banian #laves employed by Ludha to me at Bambarre he would not aliow me more than two frasilohs of the very coarsest beads, evidently exchanged for my fine samsoms, afew pieces of calico and in great mercy half the coffee and sugar, ‘The slaves came wituout loads. Shereef finished up, as above stated, by selling off all except the other half of the coee and fore, and one bundle of unsalabie veads, He left four pleces of calico and went off from this; but, hearing of disturbances at Unyan- yembe, deposited his ivory in @ village near, and coming back took the four pieces of calico, and L re- ceived of all the fine calico and dear beads you sent not a singie yard or string of beads, Awathe, the other head man employed, was a spectator of all the plunder by Shereef (rom the coast onwards, and never opened his voice in re- moustrauce or in sending back a report to his em- ployer. He carefully concealed an infirmity from you which prevented him from performin duty forme, He had his “sheepa” long before he | was engaged, and he stated to me that the large fleshy growth came up at once on reaching Ujijt. It is not hydrocele but sarcocele, and his own statement proved that the pain he feigned had en- tirely ceased when Dugumbe, a friend of mine, offered to convey him by short, easy stages to me, He refnsed, from believing that the Banians have so much power that he will be paid in full for all the time he hag been dishonestly devouring my goods, though quite unable to do any duty. Du- guiube also offered to convey a packet of letters that was delivered to Shereef here as my agent, but when he told him that he was about to start it was not forthcoming. It was probably destroyed to prevent my seeing the list of goods you seat by oue Hassani to Unyanyembe, all the expenses incurred as set down against me in Ludha’s book from the Banians who, by fraud, | converted.@ caravan to help me into the gratifi tion of their own greed. Muhamad Nassur can reveal the names of the other Banlan accomplices of Shereef who connived ip suppianting help for me into a trade speculation. at ought also to pay the slaves sent by Ludha, ead let them (the Ban- | Jans) recover from Shereef. I report this case to Her Majeaty’s government as Well as to you, and velleve that hey hands will thereby be strength- | ened to see that justice is done and that due pun- ishment be tnflicted on the Bani: Awathe, an@ on the Banian slaves who baiied and | thwarted me, tustead of fulfilling the engagement entered into Jn your presence. A note 1s enclosed + to His Highness Seyed Burghash, which you will picase prevent. In entrusting the matter of supplies and men for me to the Banian Ludha, you seem to have been unaware that our government forbids its servants to employ slavea. ie Comiissioner and Consul at Loanda, on the West Coast, sent all the way to St. Helena for somewhat stupid servants rather than ineur the displeasure of the Foreign OMce by using very clever Portuguese slaves within call. In the very trying circumstances you mention | prt | the visitation of cholera, and in the absence | of instrnetions 1 had enclosed ‘to employ freemen and not slaves, as ulso in the non-appearance of the cheques for moucy euciosed in the sane lost packet, the call on Ludba was, ters the easiest course, and J trust that you will not consider me cngrate- fu) if 1 point out that itinvolved @ grave mistake. Ludha Is polite exough, but the slave trade, and, indeed, most other trade, is carried on chiefly by the money Of Banians, British subjects, who receive most of t! Vigil} and adroitiy let the odium of slaving reat on the Arabs, They hate us Englih, end rejolee more over our fuilures than successes, Ludha sent his own and other Banian slaves at $60 free , While the usual pay of freemen at Zanzibar 5 only from twenty-five to ttrty dollars a year, He wiil charge enormous interest on the money ad- vaneed, from twenty to twenty-five per cent; and even gupposing Shereef's statement that Luda told hii bot to go beyond Ujiji, but afterone month sell of ali and return, to be quite untrue, it ts pass. ing strange that every one of the Banian slaves employed stony aaserted that they were no} to re umes only see a shadow moving, and a a single | With due deference to your judgment, I claim | }, on Shereef and | follow, but to force me back. Phetne head-on pee: Be who knew that they would not be allowed to eep their wages. It is also very remarkable that the objects of your caravan should be 50 completely ted by Banians feonly: with Shereef almost within shadow of the consulate, and neither dragoman nor other paid officials under your orders ve any information. The characters of All-bin- lem Buraschid and his ‘chum’ Shereef could scarcely have been hid from them. Why employ them without characters? Yours, £o. DAVID LIVINGSTONE, Her Mayesty’s Consul, Inner Africa. P. 8.—November 16, 1871.—I regret the necessity of bringing the foregoing very unpleasant subject before you, Lo have just received letters and in- formation which make the matter doubly serious, Mr. Churchill informed me by a letter of September Kindly sont #000 for suppues, to ‘be. forwarded to nt sen! for ipplies, be rw led to ‘bome difiieuities had me. occurred to prevent £500 worth from starting, bat in the beginning of Novem- ber all were removi But it appears that you had recourse to slaves in, and one of these slaves informs me that 8 and slaves all remained at Bagamoio four months, or till near the end of Feb- raary, 1871. No one looked near them during that time, but a rumor reached them that the Consul was coming and off they started, two days before your arrival, not on their business, but on some vate trip of your own. These slaves came to Iyanyembe in May last, and there they lay tll war broke out and gave them, in July, a ex- cuge to le there still. A whole year has thns been spent in feasting slaves ‘on £600 sont by government tome. Like the man who was tempted to despair when he broke the photograph of wife, I feel inclined to relinquish hope of ever getting help from Zanzibar to finish the little work I have still to do. wanted meu, not slaves, and free men are abundant at Zanzibar; but if the matter is committed to Ludha instead of an energetic Arab, with some ttle superintendence by your dragoman or others, I may wait twenty years and your slaves feast = fail. 1, T will Just add that the second batch of slaves had, like the first, two freemen as the leaders, and one died of smalipox, The freemen in the. first party of slaved were Shereef and Awathe. Ien- closé also a shameless overcharge in Ludha’s bill $364 0634.—D. L, Letter No. 6—Dr. Livingstone to Earl Granville. Uysis1, Dec. 18, 1871, My Lorp—The despatch of Lord Clarendon, dated Sist May, 1870, came to this place on the 18th ult., and its very kindly tone and sympathy afforded me a world of encouragement. Your lordship will ex- cuse me in saying that with my gratitude there mingled sincere sorrow that the personal friend who signed it was no more. In the kind wish expressed for my return home I can join most cordially; indeed, I am seized with a sore longing every time my family, now growing up, comes into my mind; but if I explain you will not deem me unreasonable in making one more effort to make a feasible finish up of my work. I know about six hundred miles of the long watershed of South Central Africa pretty fairly. From this the majority of the vast number of the springs of the Nile do unquestionably arise and form great mains of drainage in the Great Nile Valley, which begins in latitude ten to twelve degrees south. But in the seventh hundred miles four fountains are reported, which are different from all I have seen in rising from the base of an earthen mound as full-grown gushing meringy, each of which at uo great distance off becomes a large river. Ihave heard of this re- markable mound 200 miles distant on the south- west. Again, 300 miles distant on the south Mr. Oswell and I heard that the Upper Zambesi or Lam- bai rose at (this) one point. Then intelligent na- tives mentioned it 180 miles off on the east, and again 150 from it on the northeast, and also in the Manyema country 100 miles north-northeast. {ntel- Ugent Arabs who had visited the mound and foun- tains spoke of them as a subject of wonder aud con- firmed all my previous information. I cannot doubt of their existence, and I have even given names by anticipation to the fountains whose rivers I know. But the next point, which, if correct, gives these fonntains a historic interest, I apeak with great diffidence, and would fain apologise for men- joning, on the dim recollections of boyhood, and without a single book of reference, to hazard the conjecture that these fountains rising together, and flowing two north ito the Nile aud two south to Inner Ethiopia, are probably the sources of the Nile mentioned to Herodotus Ls fand Secretary of Min- erva in the city of Sais t. The idea im- parted by the words of the ancient historian was that the waters of the sources welled up in unfath- omable fountains and then parted, to Egypt and the other half to Inner Ethiopia. The ancient traveller or trader who first brought the report down to Egypt would scarcely be so pre- #2, as to explain of waters that seem to issuc ‘om —" one spot flowed on to opposite slopes of the watershed (sic) The northgast fountain, Bartle Frere’s, ficws as the large rfver Lufira into Kamolondo, one of four large lakes in Webb’s Lualaba. The centre line of di e then, that on the northwest of the mound, Young’s (Sir ParafMin) fountain fows through Lake Lincoin, and as the River Lomame joins Webb’s Lualaba before the fourth lai lake is formed, of which the out- flow 18 said to be into Petherick’s branch, two cer- tainly flow north, and two as certainly flow south; for Palmerston’s fountain on the southwest fs the source of tie Liambal or a, Zambeal, and Os- well’s fountain on the southeast, is tlre Kafue, which far down joins the same river in “inner Ethiopia.” I advance the conjecture merely for what it is worth, and not dogmatically. The fo tlemen who stay at home at ease may smile af my assurance in recalling the memories of beyhood in Central Africa; but let these be the sources of the ancients or not, it seems desirable to rediscover them, so that no one may come afterwards and cut me out by a fresh batch of sources. Tam very unwilling to attach blame to any one, and I can only ascribe it to ignorance at Zanzibar of our government being stringently opposed to its oMcers employing slave labor that some five or six hundred pounds’ worth of my goods were entrusted to Ludha, a concealed slave dealer, who again pea the pues in the hands of slaves under wo dishonest freemen, who, as I have described in my letter of the 14th ult., caused me a great loss of time and ultimately of afi the goods. Again, £500 of goods—this being half of £1,000 kindly sent by Her Majesty's i pew to m; aid—was, by some strange hullucination, handae over to Ludha again, and he again committed them to slaves and two freemen. 1 lay feasting on stores at B: iomore on the mainland @pposite Zan- wibar, from the latter part of October, 1870, to the latter part of and no ebruary, 1871, one looked near them. ‘they came on to Unyanyembe, a point from twenty days to a month east of this, and lay there till a war which broke out | in July gave them a good excuse to continue there still, Ludha is a very polite and rich Banian, but in this second bill he makes a shameless overcharge $364, All the Banians and Arabs hate to see me in the slave mart and dread exposure. Here and in Manyema I have got into Cag Sate graces of all the Arabs of position. But the Banian hatred of our interference in the slave trade manifests itscif in the low cunuing of imbuing the minds of the slaves sent with the idea that they are not to foliow me, but, in accordance with some fabulous letter, force ; me ck. This they have propagated all through the country, and really seem to believe it. My let- ters to the coast having been so often destroyed, I had relinquished hope of ever obtainmg help irom Zanzibar, and proposed when I becawe stronger to work wy way down to Mteza or Baker for help and men. | A vague rumor reached Ujiji in the beginning of | Jast month that an Englishman hadcome to Un- yanyembe with boats, horses, men and goods in abundance. 1t was in vain to conjecture who this could be; and my eager inquiries were met by an- | swers 80 contradictory that I began to doubt if any stranger had come at all. But one day, I cannot say which, for I was three weeks too fast in m reckoning, my man Susi came dashing up in great 1 gasped out, ‘An Englishman com- in, ee hin! aud of he ranto meet him. The American flag at the head of the caravan told me the nationality of the stranger. It was Henry M. Stanley, the travelling correspondent of the Nrw YoRK HERALD, sent by the son of the editor, James Gordon Bennett, Jr., at an expense of £4,000, to ob- | tain correct information about me if living, and if dead to — home my bones, The kindness was ' extreme, and made my whole frame thrill with ex- citement and gratitude. Thad been left nearly destitute by the moral idiot Shereef selling off my goods for siaves and Ivory for himself, My condition was sufficiently forlorn, for Thad but a Very few articles of barter left of what | had taken the precaution to leave here, in case of extreme need. ‘he strangenews Mr. Stanley had to tell to one for years out of communication with the world was quite Lhd) Appetite returned, and in a week I began to feel strong. Having men and goods, and information that search for an outlet of the Tanganyika was desired by Sir Roderick Mur- | chison, we Went fora month's cruise down to its northern end, This was a pleasure trip compared to the weary tramplag of all the rest of my work; but an outdow we did not find, On returning, on the 13th current, Mr. Stanley | received a letter from the American consul at zibar of 11th June last, and Aden telegrams of ropeau news up to the 2vth April. My mail was dated November, 1870, and wouid not have left the slaves had not Mr. Stanley accidentally seen it and seized it forme. What was done by the American consul could have been done by the English consul, but for the unaccountable propensity to employ slave trader and slaves, - Lega! no hope of even the third £500, or last half of the government £1,000, bemg piaced in any other hands but those of the |e Ludha, I have taken the liberty of resolving to return afull month eastward to secare the aregs of my goods from the slaves there and accept those that Mr. Stanley offers, hire freemen at Unyanyembe with them and then return back to the watershed to Mnish the little I have to do, In going and returning from Unyanyembe I shall lose three or four months, The ancient fountains will require eight months more; but in one year from inde timd, with ordinary health, the geographi- cal work will bé done. Tam presuming thet your Lordship will say, “If worth doing at alt, it ia worth doing well.” All my friends will wish me to make a compicte work of Jowances for what, to some who do not know how THsSvonefaay appear dostingey, Thaver ken ork, ma; ve, Faeroe DAVID LIVINGRTO! Her Majesty’s Consul, Inner Africa. P. 8.—The mortality by amatipox in this region is 80 enormous that I venture to apply to govern- ment for a supply of vaccine virus to meet me on my return—by one ere being sent in the Gov- ernor’s mail bag to the Cape and another portion by way of Bombay—all convenient haste being en- joined. — intelligent Arabs have expressed to me thelr willingness to use it. If I remember rightly, Lady + ne W. Montagu brought the knowledge of inoculation from Turkey. This race, shough bigoted, perhaps more than the Turks, may receive the superior Liew pg and, if they do, a great boon will be conferred, for very many thousands perish annually and know no revyentive. ‘The reason for my troubling you is I fo not know any of the conductors of vaccination in London, and Professor Phristison, of Edinburg, who formerly put the virus up in capillary tubes, may not now be altve. ‘The capillary tubes ‘are the only means of preserving the substance tresh in this climate I have seen, and if your lordship will Kindly submit my request to vaccinators to send these tubes charged with matter] shall be able at yas to make an effort to benefit this great popula. ion, i Letter No. 7—Doctor Livingstone to Earl Granville. UNYANYEMSE, hear the Kazeh of Spee} 20, 1872. My LorpD—My letters to and from the coast have been go frequently destroyed by those whose interest and cupidity lead them to hate correspondence as Mkely to expose their slaving, that I had nearly lost all heart to write, but being assured that this packet will be taken safe home by Mr. Stanley, I add a fifth letter to four already penned, the pleas- ure of belleving that this will really come into your lordship’s hands overpowering the consciousness of having been much too prox. The subject to which I beg to draw your atten- tion is the part which the Banians of Zanzibar, who are protected British subjects, play in carrying on the slave trade in Central Africa, especially in Manyema, the country west of Ujiji; together with a proposition which I have very mach at heart—the possibility of encouraging the native Christians of English settlements on the West Coast of Africa to remove, by voluntary emigra- tion, to a healthy spot on this side the Continent. The Banian British subjects have long been and ‘are now the chief propagators of the Zanzibar slave trade; their money, and often their muskets, gunpowder, balis, Mints, beads, brass wire and calico, are’ annually advanced to the Arabs at enormous interest, for the murderous work of slaving, of the nature of which every Banian ie fully aware. Having = mixer mueb with the Arabs in the Interior, 1 soon learned the whole system that is called ‘“butchee” or Banian trading {s simply marauding and mur- dering by the Arabs at the instigation and by the aid of our Indian fellow subjects. The canning In- dians secure nearly all the profits of the caravans they send inland, and very adroitly let the odium of slaving rest on their Arab agents. Asarule, very few Arabs could proceed on @ trading expedi- tion unless supplied by the Banians with arma, ‘Rmmunition and goods, Slaves are not bought in the countries to which the Banian agents proceed— indeed it is a mistake to call the system of Ujiji slave “trade” at all; the captives are not traded for, but murdered for, and the gangs that are dragged coastwards to enrich the Banians are usu- A Sultan ally not slaves, but cap Ate free people. anxious to do justly rather than pocket head-money would proclaim'them all free as soon as they reached his territory. Let me give an instance or two to illustrate the trade of our Indian fellow subjects. ay, friend Muhamad Bogharib sent a large party of his people far down the great river Lualaba to trade for ivory about the middie of 1871, He is one of the best of the traders, @ native of Zanzibar, and not one of the mainlanaers, who are lower types of man. The best men have, however, often the worst attend. apts. This party was headed byone Hassani, and he, with two ottier head men, advanced to the peo- ple of Nya twenty-flve copper bracelets to be paid for in ivory on their return. The rings were worth about five shillings at Ujij!, and it belug well known that the Nyangwe people had no ivory the advance was a mere trap; for, on returning and de- manding peyment in Ayo, in vain, they began an assault which continued for three days, All the villages of a large district were robbed, some burned, many men killed and about one hundred and fifty captives secured, e On going subsequently into Southern Manynema I met the poorest of the aljove-mentioned head men, who had only been able to advance five of the twenty-five bracelets, and he told me that he had bought ten tusks with part of the captives; and having received information at the village where I found him about two more tusks, he was waiting for eight other capeyes. from Muhamad’s camp to purchase them. I had now got into terms of friend- ship with all the respectable traders of that quar- ter, and they gave information with unrestrained freedom; and all I state may be relied on. On ask- ing Muhamad himeelt afterwards, near Ujiji, the proper name cf Muhamad Nassur, the Indian who conspired with Shereef to interpose his own trado speculation between Dr. Kirk and me, and defray all his Sagar out of my goods, he promptly re- plied, ‘This Muhamad Nassur is the man ey eer I borrowed all the money and goods for this journey. I Wil not refer to the horrid and senseless mas- sacre which I unwillingly witnessed at Nyangwe, in which the Arabs themselves computed the loss of life at between three hundred and four hundred souls. (See No.4.) It pained me sorely to let the mind dwell bea enough on it to peu the short account I gave, but I mention it again to point out that the chief perpetrator, Tagamoio, received all his guns and gunpowder from Ludha Damji, the richest Banian and chicf slave-trader of Zanzibar, He has had the aang to conceal his actual cipation in Maying but there is not an Arab in the country who would hesitate a moment to polit ont that, but for the money of Ludha Damji and other Bamans who borrow from him, slaving, especially in these more distant countries, would instantly cease. It is not to be overlooked that most other trades as well ag slaving is carried on by Banians; the custom-house and revenue are entirely in their the so-called governors are their trade aschid, the thievish Governor here, is merely a trade agent of Ludha, and honesty having been no part of his qualifications for the office, the most shameless transactions of other Banian agents are all smoothed over by him, common way he has of concealing crimes Is to place delinquents in villages adjacent to this, and when they are inquired for by the Sultan he reports that they are sick, It was no secret that all the Banians looked with disfavor on my expiorations and disclosures as likeiy to injure one great source of their wealth. Knowing this, it almost took away my breath when! heard that the great but covert slave-trader Ludha Daim) had been requested to forward supplies and men to me, This and similar applications must have appeared to Ludia so ludi- crous that he probably answered with his tongue in his cheek. His help was all faithfully directed to- wards securing my failure. I am extremely unwil- ling to appear as it making a wail on my own ac- count, or as if trying to excite commiseration. I am greatiy more elated by the unexpected kind- ness of unknown friends and the liberality and sympathy of Her Majesty’s government than cast down by losses and obstacles. But-l have a pur- Pose in view in ype ry lerena be Before leaving Zanzibar in 1866 I paid for and dis- atched a stock of goods to be placed in depot at Bits the Banyamwezi porters, or pagazi, a8 usual, brought them honestly to this Governor or Banian agent, the same who plundered Burton and Speke bode! freely; fud he placed my goods iu charge of his own slave Musa bin Saloom, who, about mid- way between this and Ujiji, stopped ‘the caravan ten days while he plundere much as he chose, and went off to buy ivory for owner, Karague. Saloom has been kept out of the way ever since; the dregs of the stores left by this slave are the only supplics I have received since 1868, Another stock of goods was despatched from Zanzibar in 1868, but the whole was devoured at this place and the letters destroyed so that I should know noth- ing about them. Another large supply, sent through Ludha and his glaves in 1869-70, came to Uji, and, except a few pounds of worthless beads out of 700 pounds of fine dear beads, all were sold off for slaves and ivory by the persons eclected by Ludha Dainji. I refer to these wholesale losses be- cause, though well known to Ludha and ali the Banians, the statement was made in the House of Lords (i suppose on the strength of Ludha’s | a fables) that all my wants had been sup- lied. By het | back in a roundabout route of 300 miles from Ujijil did find two days agoa good quantity of supplies, the remaius of what had been sent off from Zanzibar sixteen months ago. Ludha had again been employed, and slaves he selected began by loitering at jomoyo, opposite Zanzibar, for nearly four months. A war here, which is still going, on gave them a good excuse for going no ther. The head men were thieves, and had I not returned and seized what remained I should again have lost all, All the Banian slaves who have been sent by Ludha and other Manians were full of the idea that they were not to follow but force me T cannot say that Iam altogether free from cha- rin in view of the worry, thwarting, bamMiing which he Bantans and their slaves have inflicted. Com- mon traders procure supplies of merchandise from the coast, and send loads of ivory dewn by the same pagazi or carriers we employ, without any Jor But the Banians and their agents are not their enemies. I have lost more than two years in time, have been burdened witn 1,800 ‘miles of tramping. and how much waste of money I cannot say, through etuirs having been committed to Banians and slaves who are not men, have adhered, in spite of lose: with @ sort of John Bullish tenacity to my task, an while bearing misfortune in us manly @ Way a8 pos- sible it strikes me that it is weil that 1 have been brought to face with the Banian system that inflicts enormous evils on Central Africa. Gentie- men in India who see only the wealth brought to Bombay aud Cutch, and Know that the religion of the Banians Aces not allow them to harm a fly, very naturally conclude that all Cutchees may saiely be entrusted witit the possession of slaves, But Ihave been forced to see that those who shrink from killing & flea OF mosquito are virtually the the sources of the ancient river, In that wish, io apite of the strong desire t go home, I join, bellev- ing that it Is better to do so Now than alterwards 2 vain. ‘Trusting that Your Lordship wil kindy make ab worst cannibals Jn all Africa, The Manyema cannibals, among whom I spent nearly two ears, are innocen compared with our pro- doore Banian icllow sydjegts By thew Arab Y them. agents they compass the more human lives im one year than the Manynema do for their fleshpots in ten; and could the Indian gentlemen who oper the anti-slave-trade policy of the For- eign Office but witness the herrid deeds done by the Banian agents they would be foremost in decree! that every Cutchee found eee direct or indirect serine ould forthwith be shipped back to India, if not to the Andaman Islands. The Banians, having complete ion of the the Custom House and revenue of Zanzibar, enjoy ample opportunity to aid and conceal the slave trade and ail fraudulent transactions committed by their agents, It would be good panes so, recom- mend the Suitan, as he cannot trast his Mosiem subject, to place his income from all sources in the hands of an English or American merchant of known reputation and uprightness. He would be a check on the slave trade, a benefit to the Suitan and an aid to lawful commerce. But by far the most beneflcial measure that couid be introduced into Eastern Africa would be the moral element which has worked #0 bene- ficially in suppressing the slave trade around all the English settlements of the west coast. The Banians seem to have no religion worthy of the namé, aud among Mehammedans religion and morality are completely disjoined. Different opinions. have been expressed as to the success of ristian missionaries, and gentiemen who judge by the riff-raf that follow Indian camps speak very unfavorably, from an impression that the drunk- fess to be of “master’s caste and ” are average specimens of Christian converts. it the comprehensive rt of Colonel Ord presented to Parliament (1865) con- tains no such mistake. He states that while presence of the squadron has had some share in gappresiog, the siave trade, the re- sult is mainty due to the existence of the nettle. ments. This is supported by the fact that, even in those least visited by men-of-war, it has been as effectually suppressed as in those which have been their most constant resort. The moral element which has proved beneficial ail round the settlements is inainly due to the teaching of missionaries. I would carefully avoid anything like boasting over the be- nevolent efforts of our coun n, but here their 00d infuences are totally unknown. No attempt has ever been made by the Mohammedans in East Africa to propagate their faith, and their trade in- tercourse has only made the natives more avaricious than themselves. The fines levied on all traders are nearly prolibitive, and nothing is given in re- turn, Mr. Stanley was mulcted of 1, yards of superior calico between the sea and Ui and we made a detour of 300 mites to avoid similar spolia- tion among people accustomed to Arabs. has been said that Moslems would be better missionaries than Ohristians, because they would allow polygamy; but nowhere have Christians been toaded with the contempt the Arabs have to cndure in addition to being plun- dered. To “honga” originally meant to make Sriends, It.does 80 now all the more central countries, and presents are exchanged at the cere- mony, the natives usually giving the largest amount; but on routes much frequented by Arabs it has come to mean not “black mail” but forced contributions tmpudentiy demanded, end neither service nor food returned, Ifthe native Christians of one or more of the English settlements on the West Coast, which have fully accomplished the objects of their estab- lishment in suppressing the stave trade, could be maduced by voluntary emigration to remove to some healthy spot on the East Coast they would in time frown down the duplicity which -prevails 80 much im all classes that no glave treaty can bind Slaves purchase their freedom in Cuba and return to unhealthy Lagos to acttle as petty traders. Men of the same enterprising class who have been imbued with moral stmos- phere of our settlements would be of in- calculable value in developing lawful com- merce. Mombas is ours already; we left it, but never ceded it, The mainland opposite Zanzibar is much more healthy than the island, and the Sultan gives as much land as can be cultivated to any one who asks, No native right is interfered With by the gift. All that would be required would be an able, influential man to begin and lead the movement; the officials already in office could have passages in men-of-war. The only additional cost to what is at present incurred would be part of the paseegenicnspon loan and smal! rations and house ren th of which are very cheap, for half a year. It would be weil to prevent Europeans, even as missionaries, from entering the settlement till it was well established. Many Busiish in new climates reveal themselves te be born fools, and then blame some one for hav- ing advised them, or lay theit own excesses to: the door of African fever. That disease is in all con- science bad enough, but medical men are fully aware that —, itis not fever, but folly that kills, Brandy, black women and lazy inactivityare worse than the climate. A settlement, once fairly established and Se safe, will not Jong lack re- ligious teachers, and it will then escape the heavy burden of being & scene for martyrdom. If the Sultan of Zanzibar were relicved from pay- ing the heavy subsidy tothe ruler of Muscat he would, for the relief granted, eal. concede all that one or two transferred English settlements would require. The English name, now respected tp all the interior, would be a sort of safeguard to petty traders while gradually supplanting the un- scrupulous Banians who abuse it. And lawful trade would, by the ald of English and American merchants, be exalted to a position it bas never held since Banians and Moslems emigrated to Af- rica, It is true that Lord Canning did ordain that the annual subsidy should be Dann by Zanzibar to Muscat. But a statesman of his eminence never could have contemplated it as an indefinite aid to eager slave traders, while non-payment might be uséd to root out the wretched trafiic. If in addition to the relief sted the Sultan of Zanzibar were aranteed prot on from his relations and others in Muscat, he would feel it to be his interest to observe a treaty to suppress siaving all along his coast, Tam thankfal in now reporting myself well sup. lied with stores ample enough to take a feasible inish-up of the eo raphical portion of my mission. This is due partly to the goods I seized two days ago from the slaves, who have been feasting on them for the last sixteen months, but chiefly to a large asyortment of the best barter articles pre- sented by neg Poe Stanley, who, as I have already. informed Your Lordship, was kindly sent by James Gordon Bennett, Jr., of New York, and who bravely persisted, im the teeth of the most serious ob- stacies, till he found me at Ujiji, shortly, or one month, after my return from Manyuema, fil and des- titute.” It will readily be believed that I feel deeply rateful for this disinterested and unlooked-for Einaness. The supplies I seized two days ago, after a return march of 300 miles laid on me by the slaves In chatge refusing to accompany Mr. Stanley to Ujiji, were part of those sent off in the end of October, 1870, at the instance of Her Majesty’s government, and are virtually the only stores Worthy of the name that came to hand, besides those despatched by Dr. Seward and myself in 1569, And all in consequence of Ludha and Banian slaves having unwittingly been employed to forward au expedition opposed to their br pt ahh It was no doubt amiable in Dr. Kirk to believe the polite Banians in asserting that they would send stores off at once, and again that my wants had all been supplied; but it would have been better to have dropped the money into Zanzibar harbor than trustitin their hands, because the whole popula- tion has witnessed the open plunder of English roperty, and the delinquents are screened from ‘ and hope. I want no companion now, discovery means hard work, Some can ‘what they call theoretical discoveries b; ai I should like to offer a prize for an Planation of the correlation of the structure & economy of the watershed with the structure an economy of the great lacustrine rivers in the pro» Guetign of the phenomena of the Nile. The erind may. only hageyaned by competitors even who me ve ve dreamed of what has given LVOry great trouble, thy they may have nit on the division of labor in dreaming, and each dis. discovery 80 fart gered miles. “In the actual witnout once tasting tea congas, And, Hix montis inoceros, clo- [ppo) in Re catile of that sort, an i onaaing ust be Toast beef an jum pu ing mn the Tho food of the gods, and T oder pag teobroms competitors @ glorious feast of beers! “ ccesst No competition will be allowe teaks and stout. alter I have lishea my own explanat inmediate execution, without benent of: ! laa \ I send home my Journal by Mr. y, my daughter Agnes. It is one of , so diaries, and nec except @ Pt bent age riko served for altitudes which I cannot at presen; a iz — | cept at Util, have £00 ob ge ot sugar; aud, ex- hants, Hscra fly eee nahn 0. course. from tisk in my voneiudl * Il award me your eee that your dogs Hore probation and sanction to a little r del INGSTONI, have, &¢., ae LIV] Her Majeaty’s Cofisal, Inner Africa, The Italian Press on the Livingstone Expedition. [From the Voce at Milano, July 27.) In the somewhat circumscribed history of jour. Nalism we have no record of ga enterprise or suc- cess equal to that which now crowns the magnani- mous undertaking of that great Nestor of the transatlantic press—the New YorE HeRALD. In the honorable cause of journalism the, HeRaLy’s commissioner has proved himself as brave as he was self-sacrificing, and as industrious in perform ing his famous task as he was successful in fulfll- ing it. Selfighness and jealousy have no foothold here; for the journalist who would not afford that great newspaper its merited congratulations upon the accomplishment of a design which reflects: honor upon our profession is unworthy of the craft and recreant to the genius of liberty to: which journalism is consecrated. Just arrived at Marsellles—and a special” envoy from a great Engilsh newspaper hastens to grasp him» by the hand—Mr. Stantey, returned from beyond ultima thule: Hotel after hotel was searched until Stanley wae found, and, for aught we know, the first salute from the English corre- spondent wa: “Mr. Stanley, I presume ?’ and the answer, “Yes, sir.” And thus there was an episode hardly less inviting than the laconic introduction of Mr. Stanley to that isolated old man who wore & naval cap whose giit band was faded with time and hard in the wilds ofa land unknown. Then the two representatives of the press of two great nations quafed a friendly international giasa upon that most auspicious occasion. One was grateful for England’s hospitality; the other ‘worthy tribute to American cnterprise and vaier. ig by these little mean that civilization accumu- lates new elements of peace, charity and true great- ness; and it is on! by such means that the otherwise incalculable Influence of journalism can demonstrate itst vastness and utility. The liberal and cultured great ones of Paris would not. persat the jon to pass of giving honor to this indefatigable friend of science; and when Stanle: saw Paris a throng of earnest patrons extend him enthusiastic Welcome. The Minister from Washington received him, and it gave him to greet him who had added another laure! to their country’s fame. In the metropolis of England other honors await Mr. Stanley, and that his recep- tion in his own land will be worthy of a grateful people we will not hesitate to express our convic- jon. Apart from any profit which may accrue to the HERALD from this successful enterprise, the fact alone of having succeeded is worth the prin expenditures made to secure that suo- cess. No Persian legend of regal wealth and splendid _munificence can surpass the idea of one newspaper organizing armics in a region altuated thougands of miles from the bournes of civilization, and. Supplying corps of couriérs, baggage masters, guides and bribes to allay the fierceness of hot sheiks and clans. Months and months passed; still the HeRaLp heard nothing of Stanley. But its enterprise or its he Were not dampened, Stanley's unaccountable silence at times rendered his predicament in the minds of his friends and the world little less grave than that of Livingstone. With indomitable cnerey, with manly, physical and moral courage, of which any soldier might be envious; with unwavering confidence fn his skill and sptrit of perseverance, the HERALD’s special commissioner to unknown Africa, moved Btoadlly on to fame and success. Weak and disabled he rose from his sick suc his des bed, his wonder- riod after a par me journey and accomplit ful mission, His. lifo was never safe; he was certain that his attendants were of treacher- ous blood, and might ert or murder him at any moment. But there enliar spirit of feli-pos- session—the offspring of genuine cournge—wit some men and with which they holda natural ray over multitades, We have two marked examples of such a class in our timo, and those are Livingstone and the HERaLp's commis- sioner, Mr, Stanley, - The First Napoleon was the most conspicuous example among the heroes of the past. Eagerly awaiting Mr. Fa ha Papers, we ‘will close this comment on the greatest expedition of this century by tendering many soul-felt (con sensa anima) congratulations te him who con- ceived the grand enterprise in which Mr. Stanley succeeded 80 perfectly, and to Mr, Stanley person- ally, who has not only homored his profession more than any man living or that ever lived, but who has proven himself in of inflexible resolution, ® faithful servant and we soldier, A RAMPANT RHINOCEROS, Terrible Depredations by « Performing Spike-Nos Monster—It Breaks Away from Twenty-four Men, Horribly Muti= lates and Instantly Kills Two Men, Upsets the Seats, Wounds Several Spece tators and Frightens a Maltitude, Breaks the Centre Pole and Brings Down the Tent. + Cutcaco, August 16, 1972, Aletter from Red Bird, a small town in Monroe county, Ill., gives a thrilling account of the escape from its keepers of the rhinoceros belonging to Warner & Co.’s Menagerie and Circus on the occa- sion of its being brought into the ring for the first time. The showmen had prepared the animal for the exhibition in the ring by attaching to a ting in its nose two strong wire ropes, and twenty-four justice hy Banian agents. The slaves needed no more than a hint to plunder and bame. Shereef and all the Banian slaves who acted in accordance with the views of their masters are now at Ujijiand Unyanyembe by the connivance of the Governor, or, rather, Bantan trade agent, Syde bin Saiem Buraschid, who, when the wholesale plunder by Shereef became known, wrote to me that he (the | Governor) had no hand in it. Inever said he had. However, though sorely knocked up, ill aud de- jected, on arriving at Ujiji, 1 am now completely re- covered in health and spirits. I need no more goods, but I draw on Her Majesty's Consul at Zan- zibar for £500 of the £1,000 placed at his disposal for me by Her eee i government, ia order that Mr. Stanley may empioy and send off fifty free men, but no slaves, from Zanzibar. I need none but them, and have asked Seyed Burghash to give me a good, honest head man, with a character that may be in- uired into. I expect them about the end of june, and after all the delay I have endured feel quite exhilarated at the prospest of doing my work. Geographers will be interested to xnow the plan I propose to follow. I shall at present avoid Uji, and go about southwest from this to Pipa, which is cast of and near the south end of Tanganyika; then round the same south end, only touching it again at Pambette; thence resuming the southwest course to cross the Chambeze and proceed alone the southern shores of Lake Bangweolo, which being in latitude 12 degrees south, the course will be due west tothe ancient fountains of Herodotus. From them it is about ten days north to Katanga, the copper mines of which have been worked for ages. e malachite ore ts described as so abun- dant it can only be mentioned by the coalheavers’ phrase, “practically inexhaustible.” About ten days northeast of Katanga very exten- sive underground rock excavations deserve atten- men were deemed sufticient to control the beast, which submitted quietly to being led from the cage, but, on entering the arena, suddenly threw up its head and plunging madly to the right and left broke eee pete the men and dashed forward through he tents. Its first victim was John Gallem, @ canvasman, who was knocked down, and, the beast tramping upon hig breast, he wae killed instantly. It next ran its nose against Martin Re: other canvasman, af him in the stoma ripping out his bowels—killing him. next made @-dash in the direction of the scats, ~ which by this time.were cleared by the frightened spectators, and knocked down nearly ail of the seats on one side of the tent, dislocating the shoulder of one of the employés and breaking the arm of a spectator. - It then ran into the menagerie tent ‘and upset Mr. Forepaugh’s den of performing animals, after which it struck the centre es) with its head, Dringing it down with a crash upon the cages of the tiger and leopard, but not breaking them so as to allow those animals to escent Dashing into the museum tent It smashed all the curtosities, stampeding all the people in the vicin- ity, and rushed out through the side of the canvas into the street, finally bringing up in a vacant house, the door of which stood open, and here the men succeeded in capturing the animal and getting it into a cage. The damage to the show was about three thou- sand dollars. THE SUNDAY OLAUSE. | (he German Saloon Keepers’ Protective Organization. tion as very ancient, the natives ascribing their formation to the Deity alone, They are remarka- bie for ail having water laid on in running streams, and tne inhabitants of large districts can ail take refuge in them in case of invasion. Returning from them to Katanga, twelve days morth- | northwest, take to the southern ena of Lake Lincoln. i wish to go down throngh it to the | Lomani, and into Webb's Lualaba and home. T | was mistaken in the information that @ waterfall existed between Tanganyika and Albert Nyanza. Tanganyika is ofno interest except in a very re- mote dégree in connection with the sources of the Nile, But what iffam mistaken, too, about the | ancient fountain? Then we 5! see. I know the rivers they ure suid to form—two north and two | south; and in battling dewn the central line of drainage the enormous amount of bya? it caused me at times to feel as if running at. head against a stone wali. It might, alter aul the Congo; and who would care to run the risk of be- ing put into a cannibal pot and converted into a bigck man for anything less than the grand old Nile? But when I found that Lualaba forsook its | westing and received through Kamoiondo Bartle Frere’s great river, and that Sea occas | a takes in Young's Tore Lines, er eua to mink 1Wwas on the right | track. Two great rivers arise somewhere on the western end of the watershed and flow north—to Egypt ('). Two other large rivers rise in the same quarter and flow south, as the Zambezi or Liam! and the Kafue into Inuer Ethiopia. Yet I speak with dim. Ihave no aflinity with an untravelled geographer, Who used to swear to the fancies he collected from slaves till he became blue in the face. ut six hundred miles of the watershed prety a Sturn to the geventh hundred miles ‘The delegates of the German lager beer retailers of this elty, Who a few days since formed organiza- tions in the. several Assembly districts for the purpose of insuring protection against the re-cn- tor tof the Sunday clause of the Excise law, and Becure the passage of a law to insure protection against the brewers, held a mect- ing at the Bowery Garden yeaterday. A temporary organization was effected by the election of tem- Re officers, Christian Schmidt, chairman. Mr. Felnstein, of the committee of five appointed at a previous meeting to wait upon the Excise Commis- sioners in reference to the Sunday question, gub- mitted a report stating that no oficial interview had been granted to the committee by the Commis sioners, but that the committee, in 9 private and informal conference with one of the Commissioners. had been-assured that the lager eet retailers will not be prosecuted for any alleged violations of the Sunday clause of the Excise law; that no. arrests will be made, and that no loenses will be forieited for alleged offences ofthat kind, Only a limited portion of the several Assembly districts were ro. orted to have completed Se ee crud and arther action was taken to @ the organiza- tion thorough. PHILADELPHIA, August 16, 1872, ‘The charge of carrying concealed deadly weapons against Robert Lester Smith has been abandoned, he hi been convicted of an assault and pote on H. ‘ayer, and sentenced to one year’s impr! on Smith ig now in jail