DR. LIVINGSTONE.

Evening Star, Issue 2997, 26 September 1872, Page 3

DR. LIVINGSTONE.

The London Xnoa of August 6th says “We publish in another column a summary of interesting despatches received by the Foreign Office from Dr Livingstone. These papers cover a period of time from November 15, 1870, down to February 20, 1872. They give a full and'thrilling account of the horrors of the slave trade in Central Africa, and they also supply minute explanations of the privations to which Dr Livingston was subjected by the dishonesty of the agents employed to convey supplies to him at Zanzibar. Of bourse they furnish some accounts of the progress of his work of discovery, although, perhaps, the latter are hardly so full as might have been expected. Not the least interesting part of the despatches arc the passages which tell of his meeting with Mr Stanley. Of course we were already in possession of the facts from Stanley’s own description, but the account given by Dr Livingstone will be read with unabated eagerness, as it is substantially a description of their companionship given by Dr Livingstone, which corresponds with that of Stanley. 4 The meeting and kindness v/hich Was ■manifested- ruadeffiy whole'frame,’ says p r Livitigstoue, * 'thrill' with excitement and gratitude.’ Many expressions, and we had almost said many sentences in these despatches, are identical with the phraseology used in parts of the letters to Mr Bennett. There is also in the letters to the Foreign Office the same evidence of some cheery spirit brightened up into almost boyish exhilaration by the unexpected, p',eet.ng of one of the explore*’a own race, under such circumstances and after so long ah isolation, as In'the letter to the Hand'd, which contained many outbursts of ‘ somewhat exuberant buoyancy, which in the minds of some readers ce y st a upon their authenticity. There are abundant evidences of the same elastic temperament in the despatches received by the Foreign Office.”