Four or five letters from Dr. Livingstone, two to the
New York Herald, and others to Dr. Waller, have been published this week, and others have been received by the Royal Geographical Society. They contain some interestingintelligence about the native races, particularly one about the people Manyema, a race who are more like the ancient Egyptians than the modern negroes ; and full also of descriptions of the slave trade, which it is evident kills civilisa- tion where it would otherwise have sprung up. They are, however, fall also of complaints, principally directed against Dr. Kirk, who we imagine, will completely clear himself, and are written with an uneasy, or, to speak plainly, a vulgar jocularity as foreign to the great traveller's character as it is possible to conceive. Dr. Livingstone writing about chiefs " bulbous below the waist," and describing black girls as " dears" and " hussies" who adorn them- selves by " filing their splendid teeth to points like cats' teeth," but who are "very sisterish," and quoting Punch, and parodying Lowell, and comparing the faces of Zanzibar slaves to " London door-knockers, which some atrocious ironfounder thought were like those of lions," is not the Dr. Livingstone whom we have all known. The letters all suggest that the great traveller, left to himself for three years, seeing no white face, believing himself abandoned, sick, hungry, and heart-broken, has become ulcerated in mind, has even perhaps sustained some temporary injury to his intellectual power. His discoveries evidently puzzle Sir IL Rawlinson, and he has forwarded his diary to his daughter, sealed, with orders that it shall not be opened until his return or death.
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