Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-09-24 00:00:00

his erecting the iron house on a long narrow island,
which they: named Expedition Island, and lax

ng the

goods, where he was to be in charge till they could be
by.degrees transported to Chupanga, and how, with the

Herrads, he sent off several speeimcias
which are now. at Kew, Dr. liirk pieceeds as follows

return of the

(date September 22) t
When I sent my last letter,.viti Ceylon, the Pearlhacl-
just left, and I was in charge on Expedition Island,.
while the doctor was.tianSportine the goods by degrees'.
to.Scuna. Here we made ourselves very comfortable:

se' had the goods alljszde, and made 1
nice *opz..n verandah in front,' thatched with reeds and
covered with tarpaulingi so that we resisted both suit
and rain ; but of the latter we had very little. The'
islaiidwaS a riarro* strip, about three-fourths of a mile
long, in shape . something like an alligator. I made a
survey ,of it, and kept up .tide-guage barometers and
tWermometerk * *

built the iron I

While our party were busy transporting the goods uP
to Scuna, war had been going, on between the Portn"
guese afl-the rebels of the'country, and the latter Ivo.°
fortunately thrashed, and fled to the mountain parts

7,1 %RIK LOUISA
nr'nnn fir.' 1

opposite Scuna.
Our chief depot has been Chupanga, where, in Com"
pany wlthThorntoni I hate been on detached service.

guese army, and now there are several Officers §tationea
there, whom I found. to.be very, kind fellows, and front
whom I received much valuable assistance. I made
a trip, while waiting there, to a lake elevated cons
derably above the Zambesi. During our walk, whit
took us three days, doing , about
we met some curious peo-,-,le; but wer

twenty mil(

friendly. returneethirs 'quickly, as 1 expected tilt
doctor back fromT,ete, whither he had gone -.on his first
trip with the powder, which it would have been unsafe
to have left in a country-at present at war. I .
however, instead, a letter from, stating t,
water is so low at places where the river spreads
excessive width, that the pinnace could not be taken 14
at once, until the channel had been previously surve

i.;at the

ny the launch; that the pinnac3 was left somewhat
little beyond Scuna, in charge of Baines : that the
launch would proceed to Tete, return, pick ul
nace, and afterwards return to Chupanga.
On hearing this, I had determined another short es"
cursion, when, to our surprise, up came a boat with t`lo
officers of the Lynx, with mails from.the Cape. I wec
off in company with the officers to the Governor, at.th''or
foot of Mounnl)aller Hills, two days' journey up the res;:r
shore. and unfortunate enoue-h tn iwrin shin-fly al""

p the p

he had taken a tremendously fortified' place,. 6, a
rounded by lines:of stockades and mud- works pler',ee
fora artillery and musketry. The rebels must 115,
been many thousands strong, and probably want of 351
munition caused them to evacuate the place, otherfl,

e Govera°r

an. 1111,

pieces of • cannon (three of them bronze)
mence quantity of provisions. We found thy.
anxious to do anything for us he could, and -got - f
r.
him four canoes to return to the month of the river.

.rx We escorteL
_
noes to the meal of the river, which till-lied outura
)e.a new one to us, but with so bad a bar that it 1v0,_,,„

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the canoes over it (though, having a splendid surf-
we crossed
_it all right), for_ a few days previously

a six hands lost out or t.".
new asked the captain to send a boat up the river to cat
the doctor alive and bring him down, which will Pr°
ably avoid the necessity of his coming down at Christi'lf
s , and Mr. Medlicott accordingly set off OR this erra!
I while Mr. Cooke and I set off in the whaler to brl

anoes - roun4 to ti

mouth by whic

1 O.
ae-'ired
we forma

ltered, bat which had'since that time chant,-
While lying ont in the ship, the capta,
us to survey the bar ; but; after a long cruise,
it quite clang.?rous to cross, and so put about, in,.
to return to the shi. After hard work at the o,we found. that impossible, and anchored ; and now Off
seas broke over us,
everys
Astthhdi
aanytg we were wbhyeardaen
Ifnoocrthcheaidnzteotwohoist s
ht
and run through • if •
e min t
and on coming- to the bar again, it was alter
r eat bu
reaawchpocraklm;,
dark, and so. rough that it would have been a P-

size without hope of reaching the shore. So we k,
again; determined to beach the boat on the ope?
though it would certainly be smashed under us, in b°,46
that we might get ashore between the rollers. lc`
surf even then was far too heavy to ive us the l'i3eo
chance in the dark ; so we stood tog sea again, ~`c4 we
SEEN IN A SNOW HUT IN-LAT. /1 DEG. N. 'GUTH APRIL - • • • • • luckily the current changed, and after three Mei— tbe
, pleasure in heading a subscription list with the sum oi .
> ' 1859 ; NOT BROUGHT AWAY. • ,C. GREY reached the ship, which we had scarce done laentctil
Believe me. yours very faithfully,
Two wooden shovels; one of them made of mahogany Major-General Sabine, ke. - . gale came on in earnest, washing the decks from son
board; some spear handles and a bow. of English wood; - - [Translation.] • to stern. A few days after, on the gale going down;olit
.
a.deal eaSe witich might have Served fox a telescope or n s Iv descried the boat and launch inside the river. I cod,
barometer. co-
barometer. Its external dimensions were —length, a — e beg most respectfully to submit to your
Royal Highness the enclosed prospectus of a foundation off in a boat with the gunner and quartermaster to :,iog;
feet 1 inch ; depth, 31 inches ; width, 9 inches. Two to be called ' The Humboldt Foundation for Physical municate. Here follows an account of them er°"'„,
.
brass binges remained attached to it. Science and Travels,' and in doing so, we also beg to express the bar, which must haye been
.very bad, for be
that but for the excellent surf boat and the st— ia
ILELICS OBTAINED FROM THE ESGNIMAUX NEAR CAPE a request, to which we are encouraged by the high interest
NORTON, UPON THE EAST COAST OF KING WILLIAM in science shown by your Royal Highness on frequent ness of the gunner and quartermaster, they Iv°'l,.,' do,
ISLAND, IN MAY, 1859. occasions. It is a rare but always gratifyinc, circum- certainty have been swamped. Here we found tuS,,der
Two table spoons ; upon one is scratched WW, on stance when different nations join in admiration of the tor, and the next day being much quieter, the lo'
the other WG ; these bear the Franklin crest ; two table one great man, as has been the case with Alexander von. went off to the ship. , ' bonli,
forks, one bearing the Franklin crest, the other is also Humboldt, for many *years in an ever-increasing degree. You will be glad to hear that this.place has 11°' i, bn"
crested, probably Captain Crozier's, silversmith's name In Great Britain, also, we believe that the idea will be itself to us unhealthy. Some of us have been slc. oce
is I. West ; two tea-spoons, one engraved A. M. D.
welcomed of a living monument in the spirit of his own only for a short time ; and for my own part, 1
(A. M'Donald,) the other bears the Fauholme crest and world-wide activity. Without a very general contri- enloyed as good health as ever I did in England. 04
motto
bution, such a foundation would not find a sphere of 1 have had an official letter thanking me for atte ois
• handle of a dessert knife, into which had been
inserted a razor (since broken off) by Millikin, Strand ; usefulness worthy of the name which it is to.bear, nor to the sick of the Portuguese army, and have beetlii
buttons, wood, and iron were here in abundance; but as supply-any permanent resources to those sciences whiCh general orders by the Governor of Mozambique'
enough of these had already been obtained, no more Humboldt especially Cultivated. The British Association will always get me along with the Portuguese. n
ae-
were purchased. ' for the Advancement of Science will meet at Aberdeen This work has prevented me _ from doing 111; of
Taken out of some deserted huts (snow) near here, next Month, under the presidency of your royal highness,. botany of late, but I have seen a great deal -
and we trust that there also, with the feeling of deep.' country, and am learning the language.
some scraps of different kinds of wood, such as could notwhet(
be obtained from a boat, teak or African oak. reptet for -the losn of Humboldt, a wish may be Our proposed operations are to go to Tete,
Found lying about the skeleton, nine miles eastward mingled that his contemporaries amongst all na- doctor's brother now is, and which is a finerlol
of Cape Herschel, May, 185.9.-The tie of a black silk ticais should join in a grateful memorial. If it is soon as possible. . The launch has been there,
.11491
uninjure;:roo?.
handkerchief, fragments of a double-breasted blue cloth not.. considered_ too presumptuous, we would therefore had the coal in use, which M'Rae says is -nu t
waistcoat, with covered silk buttons, and edged with
braid; a scrap of a coloured cotton shirt, silk-covered ask your royal highness to bring the prospectus of the Welsh coal, and keeps steam well. Baines is
buttons of blue, cloth great coat, a small clothes brush, Humboldt. Foundation to the'knowledge of the British pinnace working her up Tete. oag`
1 tb Alge
a horn pocket comb, a leather pocket4ook, which fell to' Association, and to excite the interest of its 'Members in. Oct. '5. The Lynx has come in all safe, an '1 ~.
the subject. It will at once-do honour to Huniboldt's she struck on the way, is seemingly
pieces when thawed and dried ; it contained nine or ten
letters, a few leaves apparently blank. A sixpence, date memory and extend the benefits of the foundation which have had some of her hands with us '''!'pairhs;
1831; and a half-sovereign, date 1844. bears his name, if numerous British signatures should some of our accommodations and doing 't"
From beside an Esquimacx stone-mark, on the east testify a participation in the feelings of grateful remem- but, best of all; we are to have W3ll'neast!if:
brance which have dictated the scheme of this me- quartermaster of the Lynx, whose first-rate, `,;anell'io
side of Montreal Island.—Part of a preseryed meat-tin, morial." while up the river and crossing the bar tr,`,' tor a
painted red. Part of the rim of some strong copper
. . _ . .e man, ice
And it was agreed to hand round a subscription list in with me, had so struck me that I urged the ttv-au, 5110
aid of the proposed memorial ; and the following resolu- apply for him. I know that he is a first-rat i 4
plaCei
sailof::,
tion was agreed to :—" That the committee of the will keep the kroomen in their proper
Geographical and Ethnological Section of the British some hopes that we may get another Europelau-or ciore
Association, being deeply interested in the promotion of stoker ; so, if we are as fortunate in him as toll We 'to
any project by which the memory of the truly illustrious ter-master, we- shall be set up. * * * _,s clear we
Humboldt shall be honoured, and science advanced,* do to go on direct to Tete from this, and will tho_ and, #
hereby express their sympathy with the wishes of his Delta .before the unhealthy season comes,T'opeo
Royal Highness the Prince Consort respecting the hope, be out of the reach of the fevers. 1"
establishment of the 'Humboldt Foundation for Physical be off to Tete to4norrow.
Science and Travel.'" •

iron, an iron hook.bolt, a piece of sheet, copper.
Articles seen amongst the natives at Cape Norton,
not purchased.—Bows made of wood, knives, uniform
and plain buttons, a sledge made of two long pieces of
hard wood.
Articles seen about a snow hut, near Point Booth,
not purchased.—Eight or ten fir poles, varying from 5
feet to 10 feet in length, the shortest being 2- inches
in diameter. Two wooden snow shovels about 31 feet
long, and made of pieces of plank painted white or pale
yellow ; it occurred to me that the pieces of plank might
have been the bottom boards of a boat. There was
abundance of wood fashioned into smaller articles.

teatLYAof

THE FRENCH IN Morocco.—The Paris correspondent
of the Herald says : The French appear to have made
very short work of the raid over the Morocco border.
The Moors have been scattered like chaff before the
wind, and Si-Mohammed-ben-Almlellah has escaped to
his native wilds with a loss of 4,000 sheep. and 1,000

CONTENTS OF - BOAT' S. MEDICINE CHEST.
One bottle labelled zinzib R. pulv., full ; do. spirit
rect., empty ; do. mur. hydrarg seven-eighths full ; do.
01. caryphyll., one-fifth full ; do. ipec. P. co.. full ; do.
01. menth. pip., empty ; do. liq. amnion. fort., three-
quarters full ; do. 01. oliv., full ; do. tinct. opii. camph.,
three-quarters full ; do. yin. sem. colch., full ; do. do.
quarter full ; do. calomel, full (broken) ; do. hydrarg.
nit. oxyd. fall ; do. ptdv. Gregor, full (broken) ; do.
Magnes. carb., full ; do. camphor, full ; two bottles
tinet. tolu. (each) quarter full ; one bottle ipec. R. pulv.,
full ; do. jalap R. pulv., fall ; do. scammon pule., full ;
do. quina. bisulph., empty ; do. (not labelled) tinet. opii.
three-quarters full ; one box (apparently) purgative
pills, full ; do. ointment, shrunk ;do. emp. adhesiv., full;
one probang, one pen wrapped up 1
(tes in lint, one lead pen-
-1 trhes t

camels,

SOCIAL TRAGEDIES ON THE CONTINENT.—A murder,
followed by an attempt at suicide, was committed at
Heudreville, near Louvieres (Ellie), the other. day. The
victim, who was a poor woman, thirty-six years of age,
and mother of two children, was shot dead in the
street in broad day, by a man named Turlure, froM
motives of jealousy, it is supposed; Immediately after
committing the crime, the murderer ran homeand bar-
ricaded the doors, threatening to shoot any one who
attempted to approach him. 'While preparations were
being made for his arrest, he discharged. his gun into
his mouth, but the ball only broke the Jaw, and came
out near the eye. Notwithstanding the dreadf.ul nature
;TI

THE BARON MAROCHErTI.—Baron 3131.;-settj;e
left Onslow-square to superintend at Turin to on
up of his new statue of the late Carlo AlberTg
Piazza del Castello. 1.5„e1$
ALLEGATION OF RUSSIANS TAKING 02-'"" 13r.-; to
CHINESE OUTRAGE.—The Muscovite orga,11,,,;(101
is highly indignant at reports read in -i-Vov,ol gt,
nn
Russian Artillerymen having pointed the 1,0/00
in the masked batteries at Peiho ntouth• tonher t`eiti
letter from St.. Petersbu-g, dated Ist
style), calling fora ;general onslaught SeefPtilife;resg—iboltie
powers on that obstinately perfidious and the conlw
mass of humanity, which seems to sorti
`brotherhood of mankind. xrr PAAts.
n es
THE ABDUCTION OF A JUDGE'S C11.'"", Binh ,DiL.
The child of M. Him, which was stolen Int vet, In 'The
traordinary manner on Friday last, has n°;,".erecl• •-bg6
of all the efforts of the police, been dis,c-tbe .
examining magistrate who is investigatiu,t
used.the nurse to be arrested, as, If rultcprut.-
off the child, she was guilty of I
.00 bireatbt
ger. This woman For mit
.ris, about a month .affii•
erself,_vio
first month dua suckled the chll.",:',ed to
° health bef°ces°
ig
who was in t
crrent 1111
tf t t
awnasurtshee.n,
ThYhedpiroe,(,r,
liandyof, beaD"'
easi
bo
3o affected at the loss of the child thlr,,
lot, filo,
9 felt xespecting her. The reason] ,ce'd
1110\ttaVinagec:e---;ts‘
is a mystery; but M. llua TresP;;!.ol7 bo
it was done to extort money. if' this note
by letter.' " Mthe riprnopaobseitigson°fwTiCh° tssebrteen
olade

wrapped

I ca.rr.pnic

of the wound, the man's me ,„
danger. He was remfved in custody to the hospital of
-- Louvieres.—Another murder and attempted suicide took
place at Brussels a few days since. A man, named
Stayeart, a public crier, after cutting the throat of a
woman' with whom he lived, attempted to hang himself,
but the cord breaking with his weight, he jumped into
the canal close by. He was rescued by some boatmen,
and he then confessed the murder which he had com-
mitted. The police went to ascertain the truth of his
statements, and
,finding the woman dead, detained him

one of the offices of I
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