| Show DR DIL livingstone ALIVE AN AND I 1 WELL by dispatches of yesterday from london doni which were yere j received here today to day and appear in another column we e learn that reports have reached england that dr livingstone is alive and well this news has doubtless doubtless been a great relief to his friends in E england and will be gratifying to the people of every eiery land w who he are familiar with his name the qualities of pluck and perseverance command the admiration of men everywhere these the doctor has displayed to a very great extent in his explorations in africa and coupled Were therewith with he has exhibited benevolence and philanthropy anth ropy which have won for him the pym gym sympathy pathy of people of all classes we are glad to hear bear of his safety reports reached england that dr livingstone had been killed but sir roderick murchison the president of the royal noyal geographical society of Z england ng and a warm friend af eldr dr Ls was of t the e opinion that lie he might raight still be support of the british government finned fitted out an expedition to go in sea bearch search r ch of him its leader was a mr young an officer of the english navy who had bad had been on an african expedition and was familiar with the waters to be searched ho he was assisted by three white men A por portable table tabie steamboat was constructed for the expedition it was eo so contrived that it could be taken to pieces and carried by a number of men on land I 1 A government steamship the petrel carried the men and the boat to the mouth of the zambezi Zam bezi up which stream they expected to search Atthe at the mouth of the a number of natives were hired to accompany the boats and perform the heavy labors connected with the expedition the steel boat was waa accompanied up the river niver by two whale boats after proceeding up the it was intended to carry the boat across the country to lake tanganyika ga nyika some geographers have conjectured that lake tanganyika may communicate with the albert nyanza lake lakey dl discovered covered by sir samuel baker and so with the nile if so that would be deemed a grand discovery thedis the dispatches do not inform us whether dr livingstone was found by this expedition or not |
