Show MR livingstone 1 l fa A 14 particulars OF THE SEARCHING EX iP EDITION LIVIN livingstone OSTONE SAFE from froin the cape argus yesterday evening capt faulkner who irwill be remembered proceeded with Capt young as a volunteer on the livingstone searching expedition arrived in cape town and has obligingly furni farni furnished furnished shed us with the following interesting particulars of the successful search after the trace traces of the distinguished explorer it will be in the recollection of our readers that the eppedi tion left simon Sl monEr town in the middle of july and that in dr lurks kirks account of the circumstances connect connected edwith with the reported detthof dr livingstone livings tone it was said that the latter had hai crossed the north jake named makaria Ma karta and manarka Ma mahonda Ma ponda farenga and matsuwa Mat Sowa the searching arching sie fie party having reached nyasha where driven ky uy a gale into a small smail bay were they found a native who reported to them that a white man about eight or ten months previously had been there capt faulkner and the rest of the elpe feared at first that the nears news was too good to be true and it was resolved to endeavor to fo reach a point higher up at which there was an arab cr crossing place near mount bomba a point about t twenty miles from the spot at which the boat was anchored in carrying this intention into deflect hect teet they fell in with a large party of native fishermen and on communication them received a similar account to that which had been previously ly given them these people described the dress of the I 1 white man if which tallied pretty closely with that of dr livingstone these men having been shown some surveying survey ing instruments appeared to recognize and to understand the use of them one of them produced a spoon and anda a second a knife which they had received as presents from dr livingstone asa affa further test jest captain faulkner exhibited a case of photographs and without any hesitation that of dr livingstone was recognized recognized recognize a as the picture of the white man this lence gave ave the searching party more conni hence and they proceeded on to the crossing place I 1 on arriving there the same story was wag ta bated with the addition that the welte weite white man had endeavored to cross the lake but finding all the boats were on the opposite side he went toward the south and passed through the villages already named the searching party then sailed across the lake but obtaining no information made for the south they shortly afterwards came across a large village and here the same story was repeated it is known that maren ga the chief of the village of that name was extremely civil to livingstone an and a so he was found to be to those in search of him it appears he had ferried dr livingstone across a lake forming an indention in the banks of the nyasha which he might have circled on foot a at the cost of a detour farenga gave the searching party every information in his hia possession and presented them with a very acceptable supply of fresh provisions irwill it will wiil be remembered that it was at ht this point that the johanna men abandoned livingstone while livingstone went across the marsh the natives skirted the margin and on return returning returning in to the village reported they were be being ang led into a hostile country and at once made their way for the seaboard the last place mamed named by dr kirk Matso matsuwa Mat sowa sown ws eastwo was two days journey from farenga Ma the chief of this village had been driven away but a number of his men were collected who had been employed to gon eon convey the baggage of dr livingstone 20 miles further in a northwesterly north westerly direction both captain faulkner and mr mi young regarded the information as conclusive clu sive but with a view of discovering the position of Map ondas settlement they proceeded on a little further the village WAS found about a mile from the mouth of the shire capon da was away from the on a trading expedition but his mother who was home informed the party thae that that dr livingstone ing stone had passed through there and that some of the party subsequently returned the mother of the chief further produced a prayer book containing the name of one of the doctors followers who had been left behind on account count of lameness the johanna men had represented this boy w who was named anee as having deserted it appears that at this time the boy was absent with the chief soth both BO that atthe the exploring arty party had no opportunity of a personal interview with him the evidence unee which had been obtained at 8 so many different points and from such a number of witnesses satisfied mr young that the object they had in view had bad been obtained abid acting upon the instructions issued to them they resolve gd pd to return there appeared not the slightest reason to doubt the substantial correctness of the information they had obtained that dr livingstone had passed safely through the most dangerous portion of his journey and had made good his advance into the interior with the apparent intention of descending the nile into egypt they accordingly descended the shir shire e and in in due time met with the petrel and returned to simons town mr young and capt faulkner return tp england by this daya days steamer and we are certain will there meet with a reception which the nature of their report and their own enterprise ter prise and courage entitle them to f TO GREASE GRIDDLES FOR BAKING baring CAKES rub half a turnip over the griddle it answers ers era the same purpose and does not emit the dis disa greable smell usually occasioned by rubbing with grease Country gentleman |