DR. LIVINGSTONE.

Grey River Argus, Volume XI, Issue 942, 3 August 1871, Page 3

DR. LIVINGSTONE.

[LONDON DAILY TELEGRAPH.] We shall yet, please Heaven, see Dr Livingstone back agaia safe and sound in England ; and the hearts of all good and faittifnl geographers will also, we trust, be gratified by the arrival of that wished for day when stout Sir Eoderick Murchison presses the hand of his friend, and listens to his wonderful budget of travels. Let us see what is the purport of the news forwarded by Dr Kirk, through Lord Granville, to the Royal Geographers. It is contained in two letters received from XJjiji one at the Zanzibar Consulate, and the other by a Zanzibar merchant. XJjiji, which has grown to have quite a metropolitan and important sound in our ears, so frequently ha 3it been mentioned, is the central village of a tribe living halfway up the eastern side of Lake Tanganyika. The Arabs and Kutch traders have depots there, and it is the spot from which the great lake is most frequently crossed. Shureef Bashalik An Ahmed, to whom the goods for Livingstone's succour were consigned, writes from this spot, which is six or seven hundred miles from the coast, and therefore a journey of at least seventy or eighty days— writes that I letters had arrived at Qjiji from certain Arabs at Men'ama, accompanied by one from Dr Livingstone himself. The traveller was well, albeit he had been suffering • he was residing for the time at the towD of Manakoso, in want of supplies, and no more than eight followers, so that he could not travel nor come down. The letter was dated October 15, and was received upon November 10. Nor did the good Mussulman lose time, for he sent off cloth, beads, sugar, shoes, powder, coffee, and quintoe directly to Livingstone. The same news is reported from Ujiji to one Judda Damji, from his friend Sakid bin Majid. This correspondent names the Arab who is trading at Manakoso, having " the Uazarene" in co m P an y> and says that they intend to ietu m together across the lake to Ujiji in tne month of Safz — that is to sa7> A Pnl. The writer adds, that Shureef has sent forward the doctor's goods, a n « ""^sh people with them to help. Now, ™ c «rst wish must be to find out where ana koso may lie, and we doubt if anyone ca^ decide the point with certainty. The and to the eastward of Tanganyika is hardly known at all. Manakoso, Manahoso, or Manakoro — for the very name is obscure — may be situated northward or southward of the Ugoma country, which lies opposite to Ujiji ; but, at all events, we see by the dates of Shureef that the place is no further off than twenty-five days' journey. Thus the travellerwould receive his letters, supplies, and the beads and cloth, which are African currency, by the end of December at the very latest. His Christmas Day at Manakoso was, in all probability, cheered by what schoolboys calls a " jolly parcel ;" and, if the ! weather did not prevent, he might have started for Ujijiat the beginning of the new year. But supposing he starts, as Bin Majid sends word, in Safz — that is to say, April — he would arrive in Ujiji just about the present time, and the journey down from Ujiji to the coast occupies, as one may see by Dr Kirk's^dates, ?toout three months and a hal£» 'Allowing for a refit at Ujiji ij£.the.l*6r>.f<-vt» bpA nnt_ai-±l"> -*»<»w — yearpfie might reach Zanzibar at the end of the^ present month ; or, if he kept his intenjjesij as is likely, of coming on with Mohammed bin. Gharie's caravan, he . "might turn up-at the end of August. Cer- J tainly, we ought to have complete and positive tidings from him by the autumn ; while it is quite possible that he may set foot on English soil any day between July and November next.