NEWS FROM DR. LIVINGSTONE.

Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 634, 10 February 1870, Page 4

NEWS FROM DR. LIVINGSTONE.

At the first n^eetirig of the Geographical Society this season., letters were read from Dr Livingsturie» of wUo&e. safety we had, been, .reduced to gre^t. Ujncertainty; The longest, which takes the form of a despatch to Lord Glaretidon, wtvs written on a: piece of paper barrbwed ; ironi an Arab, and " theclefects aJia,Yoidable under the. circu.mstances," we very easily excqse, It is dated "July, 1868," and :Coriiea, froiq near Lake Bangweelo, in South Central Africa, The Doctor has f ou. nd, 'a f e'wr degreies.aou,th. of the equator, —not deserts, but a vast: congeries of lakes s ,and rijers and. luf.ty uplands, rich and beautiful. Other wonders he has discovered, ; : Here is., a specimen :— " A large tribe lives in underground, houses in Rua. Some excavations. are said to be 30 milea long^ arid h^ve running riUa in them ; a Wliole district can stand a siege in then). Tlie 'writings' therein, I have been told by aonie : of p\e people, are ..drawings of animals, 1 and not , letters, otherwise I ahould have gorietb see them. People very dajk, Well made, and outer angle of eyes slanting inyy^rds." Dr ■:Liyingstone was then making . for TTjtji ; and from that point, as we learn by teleejraph from Bombay, another letter has be.en received dated as. late ns the 13 of I May pf thiß year, and ao ahowing that he i had been able to adhere to his plan.