DR. LIVINGSTONE.

Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 267, 16 August 1872, Page 3

DR. LIVINGSTONE.

Mr Horace Waller, of Leytonstone, writes to The Times ou May 21, enclosing some extracts from a letter he bad received from Mr Oswell Livingstone, who is one of the expedition which recently left England. His letter is dated the 12th of April, and a postscript brings it up to the 20th of that month. The extracts from it arc as follow : “My Dear Mr Waller,—-I will first of all give you what news there is ot my father. A caravan has just arrived from Unyauyenibe, and we have seen some of ili« leading men, who say that Stanley lias reached Ujiji, where he has met my father, who has received the supplies sent up to him. There are no letters from them, and I believe tlie story fa, for the most part, a lie, though 1 am inclined to think that some supplies have reached Ujiji, and there is little doubt but that Stanley has left Unyatmvezi. All reports speak of my fnther being wounded tty a buffalo, which makes him limp badly. . . We have six N.issick hoys in hand, and we ar • endeavouring to teach them to he useful. They will make excellent fellows, although th y are ratherslow. Unfortunately, we have not enough work to give them. We picked up Mr New here, and he was determined to accompany us ; lie is an excellent fellow, and wt are glad he fa going. 4 ‘ Dr and Mrs Kirk have been extrem -ly g<>od to us, putting themselves to no end of trouble o" our Recount. If it were not for them we should lie nowhere. Since we came both Dr arid Mrs Kirk have both b-*en uown wile f.ver. I found two of our Nassick buys lying yesterday; hut after a dose of 1 roiH ir’ (Dr Livingstone’s prescription) and quinine, they have recovered most wonderfully. “Since wri mg Hi last we have heard that my father a ■- g.»i all the stores sent to Ujiji for him, an I tl.it he lias met Stanley then. ;so■ ni s there is every probability o'. mcui.ig homo before we g®t to Ujij: “ P.S. Owing io a tremendous cycluo whi-di occurred here last Sunday (April In), the Ahydos, which takes this letter, has been d lay.-d for a week, so 1 can give you a few lines about the great catastrophe, there being no other news. “It began to blow on Monday morning, and when we got up we could sec that some damage was done, many dhows being ashore. This went on till abcut 1 p.m., when there was a lull, the centre of the storm being upon us. About 2 p.m., a most tremendous gust tore open our windows, smashed our doors, and upset our tables and chairs, throwing them all in a heap. The noise was something awful, the wind mid the water irom the sea rushing throw the windows made a sound resembling steam escaping from a boiler. The rooms were full of water, and all our tilings floating about in it. All the houses in the town were unroofed, and many otherwise severely damaged. In the harbour tlie Ahydos alone kept afloat, steaming full speed against the wind up to her anchors, aud with extra weights on the safety valves. The Sultan has lost all his fleet except one small yacht, which was away at Momhas with Mr New on expedition business. Five merchantmen were wrecked, one with all hands lost, and over 100 dhows, many with valuable cargoes, are sunk. In the country only ouo iu 30 of the cocoanut trees is standing, and the clove trees are mostly destroyed, thus ruining Zanzibar for some years.”