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| New York Herald. |
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very few, I believe, ever coupled the words `New York Herald'
with a search after "Doctor Livingstone." It was not my fault,
was it?

Ah, me! what hard work it is to start an expedition alone! What
with hurrying through the baking heat of the fierce relentless sun
from shop to shop, strengthening myself with far-reaching and
enduring patience far the haggling contest with the livid-faced
Hindi, summoning courage and wit to brow-beat the villainous Goanese,
and match the foxy Banyan, talking volumes throughout the day,
correcting estimates, making up accounts, superintending the
delivery of purchased articles, measuring and weighing them, to see
that everything was of full measure and weight, overseeing the white
men Farquhar and Shaw, who were busy on donkey saddles, sails, tents,
and boats for the Expedition, I felt, when the day was over, as
though limbs and brain well deserved their rest. Such labours were
mine unremittingly for a month.

Having bartered drafts on Mr. James Gordon Bennett to the amount
of several thousand dollars for cloth, beads, wire, donkeys, and
a thousand necessaries, having advanced pay to the white men, and
black escort of the Expedition, having fretted Capt. Webb and his
family more than enough with the din of preparation, and filled
his house with my goods, there was nothing further to do but to
leave my formal adieus with the Europeans, and thank the Sultan
and those gentlemen who had assisted me, before embarking for