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at auction in Zanzibar. Goods and money to the amount 

 of nearly two thousand dollars were thus supplied from the 

 fund. Ultimately Mr. Livingstone concluded that, in view 

 of the severity of the season, it would be inexpedient for him 

 to start through the country, and he returned to Zanzibar, 

 the supplies themselves destined for the doctor being sent off 

 with the party organized by Mr. Stanley for the purpose. 

 19 A, August 17, 1872, 171. 



NEWS FROM LIVINGSTONE TO JULY 1. 



The London journals contain a letter from Dr. Livingstone, 

 addressed to Sir Bartle Frere, and dated at Unyanyembe, 

 July 1. In this he states that the opportunity furnished by 

 the departure of a native to the coast is embraced for the for- 

 warding of his letter, and he proceeds to give a short account 

 of his intended movements whenever the expected supplies 

 of men and material shall have reached him. 



His plan embraces, among other projects, that of first visit- 

 ing Katanga, and then going ten days to the northeast, to ex- 

 tensive under-ground excavations used as places of retreat 

 and safety. In the course of his earlier explorations he reach- 

 ed one of these locations, to which he had been refused en- 

 trance. He remarks, however, that it was of sufficient ex- 

 tent to receive the inhabitants of a lar^e district and all their 

 gear. He assigns a high antiquity to the construction of 

 these burrows. 



After returning to Katanga, he proposes to go twelve days 

 to the northwest of the head of Lake Lincoln, and then to 

 turn back along Kamalondo. 



He expresses his regret that he has been made to appear 

 in a false position to Dr. Kirke, the British consul at Zanzi- 

 bar, on account of what he had said in reference to the send- 

 ing slaves as assistants instead of freemen, and that this had 

 been taken to heart by that gentleman, and at the same time 

 he disavows any intention of making any personal allusion. 

 WasJiington Daily Chronicle, November 10, 1872. 



VENEZUELAN MOUNTAINS. 



The chain of mountains which detaches itself from the 

 ridge of the Venezuelan Andes, near Barquisimeto, presents 

 two great heights near Caraccas. The lower is the Silla of 



