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coolly demanded what was the matter. From the reply to 
this question, it came out that the son of the chief man had 
been murdered by the Arabs of Ujiji, and that they had 
come to wreak upon us their revenge for his death. Cour- 
teous and calm, almost beyond anything 1 can convey to 
you in words, the Doctor met their declaration with the 
answer that although all that was alleged by the friends of 
the deceased might be true, we had nothing in the world to 
do with the business ; we were white men, and not Arabs ; 
and in proof he bared his arm and showed it to them. 
They were not, however, satisfied even by this, which should 
have been tolerably conclusive evidence, and we had, in the 
long run, to bribe them in order to get rid of them. They 
left us ; but fearing lest they might return in greater force, 
we sailed into safer quarters, across the lake, a distance 
of thirty -five miles.” 
Hastening on to London, Stanley telegraphed to the 
Hew York Herald the following letter from Livingstone. 
Perhaps no single instance of the differences between bar- 
barism and civilization could be found more striking than 
the fact that this letter, which had been so long on its jour- 
ney from Africa, was almost instantaneously transmitted 
the rest of its way to its destination. The cost of its 
telegraphic transmission was some thousands of dollars : 
Livingstone's letter to the Herald, telegraphed from London, 
July 26/7i, 1812. 
James Gordon Bennett, Jr., Esq. 
My Dear Sir : — I wish to say a little about the slave-trade 
in Eastern Africa. It is not a very inviting subject, and 
to some I may appear very much akin to tho old lady who 
relished her paper for neither births, deaths, nor marriages, 
but for good racy, bloody murders. 1 am, however, far 
from fond of the horrible. I often wish I could forget 
scenes I have seen, and will certainly never try to inflict on 
others the sorrow which being witness of man’s inhumanity 
