HOW DR. LIVINGSTONE WAS FOUND.

Waikato Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1482, 3 January 1882, Page 4

HOW DR. LIVINGSTO NE WAS FOUND.

V , 7*~^ JA.COOKDINO to ,the Philadelphia Public ledger, Selim, tfeeshinah, the young Arab sUeik'Hrhtt'afifed as !a guide; for Stanley doHng ttie latteu-'s African explorations and tiearch for Dr Livingstone, has been" found in Boston by a representative of the' Baton Herald. 'Selim says no horses or mules were used during the journey, and the natives were nob able to keep up with Stanley's pace, whose powers of endurance and fasting were phenomenal. Stanley had to pay tribute to the tribes through whose possessions ho passed, and refusing to give a few yards of calico to King Amdaze a battle ensued, in which fifty of Stanley's followers were killed. Stanley afterwards became sick, disheartened, frequently remarked that Livingstone must bo dead anyway, and spoke of abandoning the search. Selim thus tells the story of the discoTery of Livingstone : — " One day I started out towards the west, and after several days' tramp fell in with Abdullah Ben Sulieman, an Arab, who told me he had heard that Livingstone was somewhere north, bub close to Lake*Tan«anyika. I pushed ahead, and two months later, with Abdul Ben Hatnels, another Arab, met Dr Livingstone, face to face, near the Lake. The Doctor looked worn out and very old, and in conversation he asked how I happened in the country. I told him ; but upon my telling him that Stanley, an American, was searching for him, he frowned. He seemed to feel that it would have been better if an Englishman had come after him, and was quite displeased that it was an American. I found that the Doctor would be in Ujiji in a fow months, and I hastened back to Stanley, who was more discouraged than ever. He would not believe I li.id seen and bilked with Livingbtone, and even then spoke of turning back. After much peisuasinn tho expedition started out, nnd in due time, after many obstacles and dangers, reached Ujiji, upon entoiing which place we were met by Dr Livingstone's native servants. The Doctor afterwards, with several Arabs, camo forward, and I poon pointed him out to Stanley, who even then seemed to doubt me. Both looked for noarly half an hour at one another before either spoke. Stanley has not told thetruth relative to the toast drunk between Livingstone and himself at the latter's hut. It was the laßt bottle of champagne Stanley had, and I bi ought it out. Stanley offered the toast, " Here's to Englandand America! ' I interrupted with, 'and Arabia.' Stanley and Livingstone looked at one another, clinked glasses, and drank the toast, 'To England, America, and Arabia.' This is the truth, and I felt satibficd, as I thought tii.it Arabia had done as much to find Livingstone as Stmley did." In regard to Stanley's present expedition to Africa, Selim sa\s that he received a letter from Stanley askiug him to go as a guide. He refused, for the reason that he had got enough of Afiica. Selim says that the present expedition is private, aDd that, tilthough it is ostensibly under ihe patronage of Belgium, yet England has a linking interest in its results. There is no doubt but Stanley's life hope is to fix the source of the Nile, but tho chances :ue tigaiiibt h:s success. "He is a man who never made friends with tho Natives, and on hib former trip his followers conspired to kill him, but wero dissuaded. I do not believe ho will survive his piesent expedition."