Letters have been received from Dr. Livingstone. It appears that
he was deserted on the shore of Lake Nyassa by the Johanna men, who, to shield themselves, invented the circumstantial lie about his death. Thence he advanced northwards towards Lake "Tanganyika, where he gave letters to a caravan leader named Bunduki, who, twelve months afterwards, delivered them safely to Dr. Kirk at Zanzibar. He was still proceeding up the lake to Ujuji, where he will find necessaries and letters from England, and will then make his way to the Nile. Should he reach it, he will be the first white man who ever traversed Africa longitudinally from the Cape Colony to Alexandria, and will be hailed with justice as the greatest explorer of this generation. To perfect African discovery, we shall have to employ Captain Montgomerie's plan in Thibet, and train Arabs to explore.
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