THE DISCOVERY OF DR LIVINGSTONE.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1284, 10 September 1872, Page 3

THE DISCOVERY OF DR LIVINGSTONE.

* The New York Herald of 3rd July contains some columns of a telegraphic summary of the news brought by Mr Stanley as to his finding of Dr Livingstone in Central Africa. The first part of the narrative contains a sad description of the sufferings of the exploring expedition through jangle fevers and frequent fights with hostile natives. The following is the account of Mr Stanley's meeting with the great explorer :— After a four-hundred-mile journey the outlying portions of the Province of Ujiji were reached. Word had reached the expedition of the presence of Dr Livingstone in the Province within a recent , period, and accordingly preparations were mede for a triumphal entry into Ujijl The pagazis who chanced to be unladen proceeded, beating drums and blowing upon Kudu horns. The armed escort fired salutes every moment, keeping up a regular feu de-job, and the American flag floated proudly over all. In the distance lay the silver bosom of Tanganyika Lake, at the foot of the stately mountains in the background, and fringed with tall trees and lovely verdure. It was a wonderful relief to the pilgrims of progress. Before them lay the settlement or town of Ujiji, with its huts and houses looking . dreamily like a land of rest. The astonished natives turned out at the unwonted display, and flocked in crowds to meet them with deafening shouts and beatening of drums. Among the advancing throng was noticed a muscular group of turbaned Arabs. As they advanced still nearer one of the group who walked in the centre .was noticed to be differently attired from the others. The group halted, and the word was passed Sack that a muzaugu was atrong them. Spurring forward the He-aid commander indeed saw that, strongly contrasting with the dusky, sunburnt Arab faces, was a hale-looking, grey-bearded white man, wearing a navy cap, with a faded gold band and a red woollen jacket. It was a trying moment, wherein every emotion of hope and fear flashed through the brain. The fatigues faded in the intensity of the situation. The questions, Was this he who had so long been sought, or could it be a delusion of the mind, or was the white man some unknown waif of humanity? crowded the mind, bringing their changing feelings with them. A few feet in front of the group the Herald commander halted, dismounted, and advanced on foot. Preserving a calmness of exterior before the Arabs, which was hard to simulate, as he reached the group Mr

tanley said—"Dr Livingstone, I presume r A smile lit up the features ofthe hale white man as he answered, "Yes, that is my name." . The meeting was most cordial, and tne wearied caravan, joyous at the triumph of the expedition, were escorted by the multitude to the town. After a rest andjv meal, in which milk, honey, and fish, from Tanganyika were new featuresj Livingstone told his story, which in brief is aa follows—ln March, 1866, he informed the Herald explorer that he started with twelve Sepoys, nine Johanna men and several liberated slaves. He travelled up the Rovuma river. Before they had been gone vei/ long the men became frightened at the nature of the journey, and the reports of hostile tribes up the country they were to pass through. At length they deserted him, and, as a cover for their cowardice in doing so, circulated the report of his death. Livingstone proceeded on his journey iv spite of tho isolation, aud after some difficult marching reached the Chambezi river, which he crossed. He found that this was not the Portuguese Zambezi river, as had beon conjectured, but, on the contrary, wholly separate. He traced its course, and found it called further up the Lulaba. He continued his explorations along its banks for 700 miles, and has become convinced in consequence that the Chambezi is donbtles the source of the Nile, and that this will make a total length for the mystic river of Africa of 2600 miles. His explorations also establish that the Nile is not supplied by Lake Tanganyika. He reached within 180 miles of the source, and explored the surrounding ground, when finding himself without supplies, he was obliged to return to Ujiji, ana was in a stato of destitution there when met by the commander of the Herald expedition. On tbe 10th of October, 1871, the two explorers left Ujiji, and arrived at the Unyamyembe toward the end of November, when they passed twenty-eight days together exploring the district. They then returned, and spent Christmas together at tfjiji The Herald explorer arrived at the ftoint of sending this important intelligence on the 14th March, . 1872, leaving Livingstone at Unyanyembe. He will explore the north shore of Tanganyika Lake, and the remaining 180 miles of the Laalaba River. This herculern task he expects will occupy the next two years.