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The Search after Livingstone. By E. D. Young. Revised by the Rev. Horace Waller, F.R.G.S. (Letts.)—This little book gives us as vivid a
picture of African travel as we have over mot with. It is very short, for it may be road through in little moro than an hour. The plot of the story, so to speak, is perfectly simple, for Mr. Young wont to a certain place and then came back again. The route which ho took can be kept in the head without any difficulty. And there is just the amount of detail in the descriptions of scenery, native life dm, which servos to illustrate without bewildering the narrative. Mr. Young took a stool boat from England. With this he made his way up tho Zambesi, and thence into the Shirt:. On reaching Ma Titti, at the foot of the staircase of cataracts thirty-five miles long which breaks the navigation of the river, the boat was taken to pieces and carried by native porters to the upper waters. Two hundred and forty men accomplished this in four
days, and it says no little for them—they were our old friends the Makololo—that not one proved faithless. A section of a stool boat would have been a fortune in itself. The voyag,o was continued up the river, through Lake Pamalombi, and thence into Lake Nyassa. On the eastern bank of this lake the travellers found an Arab settlement, where they heard what practically fulfilled the object of their search. It was proved beyond all doubt that the story of tho Johanna men, who must henceforth rank as successful liars with the famous Tatar who invented the fall of Sebastopol, was utterly false. Livingstone had been there long after tho supposed date of his death, and had gone north. We strongly recommend tho book to our readers. It is a fine cliaptor of a very noble story.
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