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Show I IByW.U. Telegraph. ANOTHER HVI.STO.E UTrER; New York, 20. The Herald has another letter fromLivinpsfrinfv inhi.ri , from London, and addressed to Mr. Bennett. Tho following is an estract; In trying to make the eastern African slave trade better known to Americans, ' I indulge in the hope that I am aiding, though in a small degree, the good time yet to come, when slavery as well oiracy will be chased from the world. Many have but a faint idea of the evils that trading in slaves inflicts on the victims and authors of its atrocics. Slaves generally, and especially those on the west coast at Zanzibar and elsewhere, else-where, are extremely ugly. I have no prejudice against their color, indeed any one who lives long among them forgets they are black and feels they are just fellow men, but the low, retiring, forehead, pug nose, the jaws, long heels, and other physical physi-cal peculiarities, common among slaves and west African negroes always awaken some feelings of aversion. I would not utter a syllable to prcsi down either class more deeply in tho mire in which it is already sunken, bat I wish to point out that these are not typical Africans, any more than typical Englishmen, Eng-lishmen, and that natives on nearly all tho highlands in tho interior of the eoiitinonf nru nc o rl F: . specimens of humanity. I have hap-. hap-. pened to bo present when all the head men of the great chief Msama, who . lives west of south of Tangyanyck, had 1 come together to make peace with cer-1 cer-1 tain Arabs who had burned thefr chief p town, and I am certain that one oould not see more finely formed, intellectual heads in any assembly in London or fans, and their faces and forms corresponded corres-ponded finely with the shape of their heads. JUsama himself had been a sort of Napoleon for fighting and conquering, in his younger days. Alany of the men are very pretty, and it is likely all the ladies would have been much prettier if they had but let themselvos alone. Fortunately the dears could not change their pretty black eyes, beautiful foreheads and nicely rounded limbs, well-shaped forms, and small hands and feet, but they must adorn themselves; and this du by filiug their Icrnlid teeth to points, like cats' teeth. They are not black, but of a warm brown color Lozembo s queen, Moria Nyombo byname, by-name, would bo esteemed a real beauty either in London, Paris, or New York and yet she had a small hole throunh the cartilage, near tho tip of her line slightly aquiline nose. The Dr. gives details of the pcculi-arities pcculi-arities of the peoplo called 1W and tells of numbers of them, who are captives, cap-tives, dying of broken hearts. He tells of a water shed, or broad tract, covering cover-ing the upland, some seven hundred ..w .u reuKiunoui west to east. Its general altitude is between foor and five thousand feet abovo the sea, and mountains stand on it at various points between six and seven thousand feet above tho ocean level. On this water shed springs anso which are well nigh mnumberable. These springs join each other and form brooks which again oonverge and become rivers, or, say streams, of twenty forty, or eighty yards, that never dry and all flow to wards toe centre of an immense valley which he believes is the valley of Nile In this trough we have at first three large rivers, then all unite in ono enormous enor-mous lacustine river tho central line of drainage of which I name Webb's Luluaba. In this great valley there are five great lakes. One near tho upper up-per end is called lako Bemba, but it is not a source of the NL'o. No large river begins in a lako. It is supplied by the river called Chambezt and several sev-eral others, which may bo considered sources out of it, and flows into a arger rivor, Luapula, which runs into ake JUocra and comes out as a great ako. The river Luluaba helps to form lake Komalondo. Wcstof Komalondo but still in the great valley, lies lake Lincoln, which I name as mv tribute of lovo to that great and eond man ot America. This lako lief along tho valley for some time and at last lorms one of iho three great rivere I mentioned tho Bartle, Freres and biiana, and falls into Komalando, and lake Lincoln becomes a lacustrine river joining the central lino drainage, but lower down. Theso united form a filth lake which the slaves sent to me instead of men, forced mo, to my great grief, to leave, and which is spoken of as the unknown lake by my comrades it is five degrees of longitude west of bpeke s position at Ujiji. This makes it probable that tho , great lacustrine river in tho valley is tho western branch oi Fothorick's Nile, the Bahar Ghazal, and not the eastern branch which bpeko, Grant and Baker believed to bo the river of KgypL If correct, this would make it tho Nile, only, after all, the Bahar Ghazal enters the eastern arm. I found that mighty river left its washing and flowed right away to the north. Tho two great western arm drams, tho Lufirn and Tomaine, running north-cast before joining tho central lino or main Webb's Luluaba told that the western side of tho great valley was high like the eastern, and as this main is reported to go into largo iiwjuhms, il uau scarcely oe ought else than tho western arm of the Nile. But besides all this, in whioh it is quito possiblo I may bo mistaken, we have two fountains, of probably tho seven hundred miles of water shed giving rise to two rivers tho Tcambi, or upper Lambczi, and the Kafne which flow into in-to Ethiopia, and the two fountains are reported to rise in the same quarter and, forming the Lufira and Tomaine, flow as we haye seen to tho north. Tho country abounds in food of ali kinds, rich soil, which raises everything every-thing planted, in great luxuriance. A friend of mine tried rice and, iu between be-tween three and four months, the crops increased ono hundred and twenty fold. Three measures of seed yielded three hundred and sixty measures. Maize is so abundant that I have seen forty five loads, each about sixty pounds weight, given for a single goat. Maize, dura or haleeas, harnis-terim, harnis-terim, cassavia, sweet potatoe, and yams furnish, in a great measure, the ingredients of diet. HaJmort, and ground nuu of the forest trees, afford the fatty material of food, and the sugar cane tho sacharine. The palm toddy, or beer, bananas, tobacco, and range cannabis aro the sole luxuries of life. The villages swarm with goats, sheep, hogs, and fowls, while elephants' buffalo, acbras, and gorrilias, yield to the expert hunters plenty of the nitro-geneous nitro-geneous ingredients of human food. |