DR LIVINGSTONE.

Evening Star, Issue 3047, 23 November 1872, Page 1 (Supplement)

DR LIVINGSTONE.

To the Editor, Str, —Some time ago there was great rejoicing upon tha announcement by telegraph that the justly celebrated African traveller, Dr Livingstone, was alive and well Pleasant though the news was, yet the statement as to his discovery by Stanley has been doubted by many. Various reasons have been assigned for doubting the statement, and I think, where tbe public are so much interested, anything bearing on the question, whether for or against, should bo made known to them. This, sir, is my apology for troubling you with the enclosed clipping from the Xew Hampshire Gazette, received this mail. Hoping you will be able to insert it in your valuable paper, 1 am, &c., L. A. Port Chalmers, November 20,

Rtanlev and Livingstone. —The Boston Advertiser's special from New 'S oik, discussing the question “Did .Stanley find l.ivingBtome?” says; —“The opinion rapidly m creases that tbe whole affair is a hoax. Important revelations concerning this matter are promised in a day or two by several persons who know Stanley, and weie familiar with his plans at the time of the expedition to Abyssinia and previous to bis departure for Zanzibar. Several scientific gentlemen discussed the subject, and the opinion was unanimousthat • tanley’s story is false. A comparison of Livingstone’s letter to Bennett with the private letter of Stanley shows a wonderful similarity of handwriting, and several experts pronounce them identical. The discrepancies already pointed out are to bo followed by others. The letter to Livingstone’s brother in Canada has been sent for, and pages from it will be compared with private letters known to be from Stanley’s hand. A private letter from a member of the Royal Geographical Society of London says corroborating proofs are daily increasing tli*!t Stanley went into Africa as far as Unyanyembe, where he learned of Livingstone’s death, and obtained his diary and several other articles belonging to him Knowing it to be a greater feat to find Livingstone alive, he concluded to make up the story and fabricate letters to corroborate his own statements. His denunciation of Dr Kirk is considered part of a plan to break the force of the latter’s exposure of Stanley’s fraud, and his remarks about the slave-trade are intended to divert attention. The latter says the English savans ars pearly unanimous iq regarding Stanley’s story di®’ trust, nnd believe Uiac he has imposed upon the Herald, and through it upon the whole world." — N■ II- Gazette,