THE LIVINGSTONE SEARCH EXPEDITION.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1338, 12 November 1872, Page 2

THE LIVINGSTONE SEARCH EXPEDITION.

The Mayor of Brighton (Mr Cordy Barrows) gave a farewell dejeuner to the President aud Executive of the British Association and the principal visitors, in the course of which Mr Oalton proposed the health of Mr Stanley. Mr Stanley^ who on rising was received with tumultuous applause, after a few preparatory remarks, Said :—" They wished to know this morning in the Times what I had to do with sending out that last expedition to Livingstone. Now, I will tell: it to you for the first time. Dr Livingstone asked me to send him fifty good men* free men, aud when I came to the coast I found the English expedition there, and they told me they were bound for the search and relief of Dr Livingstone. As he was found and • relieved already, as | had his journal, as I had his letters; his chronometers, his useless silver watches, his instruments, hia box of curiosities,

why, then, thoße young gentlemen decided it was not necessary for them to go to Livingstone. Before I parted from Dr LivingstonA in Unyanyembe, we con salted together as to the very beat things necessary in order to keep, his health, while on the road to Manyema and the sources of the Nile, and I said to him, • Now, Doctor, I will tell yon, I'll rush to the coast, just rs hard as I can, rain or no rain, and when I como there I will pick out fifty good men, and in three weeks they shall be on the road. As they will have nothing but their guns and ammunition, you may just allow me to send you somo American flour to make pancakes, and somo nice tinned' saltiu n, and other little luxuries like that.' And the Doctor said, 'Yes, that is beautiful, first-rate.' Now, I would not have suggested that if I had not felt the want of those things myself. I engaged twentyfive men from Ujiji, and got them to engage twenty-five othera whom they knew. These wore brought to the American Consulate, and signed an agreement to serve Dr Livingstone two years after their arrival at Unyanyembo. Then I wrote to Mr Oswald Livingstone, telling him the expedition was ready to go on. ' ' Are yon V He replied,' in a note, saying, ' I have thought proper to return home.' It was not my place to tell him to go on. His father would have liked to have seen him, though ho would rather that he should have stayed at homo. But I advised him to go on, though others advised him to return. I have copies of the letters I sent him and those which were returned to me. Then the question, What had Mr Stanley to do with the last expedition 1 Did not I collect the men, draw the money for Dr Living-

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atone, give them their muskets, equip them, and place them under the protection of the American Consulate? Dr Livingstone had asked me not to leave Zanzibar until I saw this done ; and the American Consul said he would bo responsible if I were obliged to leave before the men were shipped off. I knew the last man was seen across the inundated plain which deterred the English expedition from pursuing their journey; and I am now certain that he is two hundred miles further on his journey, prosecuting his researches as to the sources of the Nile, and that in two years' time he will arrive in this country, and perhaps come to Brighton.