15 JUNE 1872, Page 3

Dr. Livingstone is really alive and flourishing, and the tough

old traveller will be amongst us again yet. The envoy of the Netv York Herald (Mr. Stanley) has brought back letters from him to Zanzibar, which we shall soon have. The short telegraphic mes- sage as to his discoveries are not very intelligible, but we believe them to mean that Lake Tanganyika is not connected with the Nile system north of it, but drained by a river flowing to the East into the Indian Ocean. The highest interest of the news is not, however, geographical, but personal. The life of the brave old man during the three years must have resembled life on another planet, and he must have gathered endless knowledge of people scarcely more intelligible than animals. It is a pity he is inarticulate.