New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-04-19

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tie Haussa Lar guAge, which the travellers understood
Tie appearance Of the people was pie 4smg and some
times even b.autfc' i,.rii intelligence is weknown
in Africa. Bake had IN audience with the suf'ah
The for, igners were seated on Tu'ssh carpets They
did r.; see the prince birns, for according TO the
custom Il the country, siken curtain vas suspended
before bin. H. received some presents, ard tailed
much abos peace, friendship aud future commerce,
the wikcdness Of wars Of conquest and about en- al
bance against common eremics.
The crew was 30 much weakened by sicsncss that
The steamboat could be worked further up the
river. Dr. Bake with Mr.. May, on the 9th, started
I'D the stream in boat. That day and the following
they made but little progress but the thlrd day The
wind rose. and they ran rapidly before it. Before
no.n they reached Dusi village which was then en-
tirrly submerged, with the exception Of a dry spot
about q great tree HcN they landed, and were coon
surrounded by hocks of rough, savage Looking people,
all entirely naked women az well men. At fret
establishment H. pt them quiet and DR.. Bake attempt
ed In get up conversation with them, and get them
into good hunor Soon, however, they began 70 be
trouble. some and TO press up about them with the IN
teIton evidently Of carrying off their boat and plum
deire them. little sporting dog which the travel
err had with them fortunately lowed his head at ts
iupcture aid his sudden appearance inspired rhe ma
tives with such salutary fear that they Immediately
retretted. Az the Doctor did Lot think it worth WINE
TO get into fight with three or four hundred men,
armed with swOrds spears, bows and arrows, he gave
the best looking among them a few presents, and
showed off, While they were looking about for an
ether landing place, the natives suddenly came upon
them in their canoes and tried 10 get them in the
swamps and bushes along the bank, that they were
obliged to put out for the open river Here they were
safe they could easily upset any canoo which might
happen to be Troublesome When they had reached
open water the nine or ten canoes, manned WITH eght
or nine men apiece, turned back and leh them. They
had already fixed that afternoon as the limit OF their
upward voyage, and, though very unwiliingy, they
headed their boat down stream
That point was in latitude GO 30 north, longitude
lie 80 cast They could not give the latitude and Ion
gude with greater accuracy, az they were interrupted
in their observations by the savsges They learned
that they only sixty miles below the mouth oi
the Faro On the return voyage they experienced a
tIopi al Thunderstorm and when they arrived at Ga
rowa they found that the Plead gone. The crew,
fearing that the river was falling, had compelled the
mate TO start down the river and wandering for awhile
over flooded land they found the steamer and continued
the return voyage without interruption. On the 5h
of October the river began to fall on the goth they
reached the Niger and On the 4th Of November OF
sunset they anchored before Fernando Po.
On the average, the sick list moderate Fever
was in all treated with heavy doses OF quinine,
and what must be regarded almost miracle ID the
African lowlands, there was not gle death duing
the whole voyage. The banks of the river were well
studded with cities, and the inhabitants, to al ap-
peaIance dwelt in peace and safety. Huts and TILED
land were found rear the banks, which was not the
case in 1871, when Mr.. Crowther went up the Niger,
and war and tumult were everywhere prevalent.
The expedition of that year consisted OF three
steamers, which entered the Nun mouth OF the
Niger on the 18th of August. On the 5th of Sep
TENDER, as they lay before 1dda, fever broke out
and death began its fatal work. They were Do
lged to send back two of the steamers with the
sick The third continued the voyage, but On the 4th
of October when she reached the nights of Egga, all
the engineers were sick, and only three white men
were left able to do duty. The river was rapidly fall
ing, and they were compelled to return to the sea,
which they reached on the 10th. Then the country
about the Niger was in very different political con-
diton For Africa too has her history, her great
revolutions conquerors and empires as we now
learn from the chronicles of Timbuctu, with which
Dr. Barth has made us acquainted. In ls4l, the
valley of the Niger was laid waste by the Felatas or
Faas, name derived from Buo, plural Fable, which
means yellow brown. ConceIing the history of this
pastora, race which imgrated into aussa last CEN
fury, Kdlle says in his Pelyglotta:
CATER they had lived long upon these products OF
their herds in the forests and Oh the meadows pasur-
ing their cattle of their priests, whose name was
Fodie had vision which maj ks an epoch IN the his
tory Of all Central and Western Africa. In this vision
it was revealed Fode that all the beautiful country
round about, with all its populous cities and countless
villages belonged to the followers Of the Prophet that
is 10 the Felatas and that Fode himself was comms-
stoned by God with the aid of the Faithful To rescue
those blooming meadows aud fruitful fields and lovely
valleys from the hand OF the Kafr and TO convert All
the Kafbrs to Islam, putting to the sword any who
might hesitate to accept the faith Fired with this IN
spiraton, Fode called on all faithful Felatas from
there to the Atlantic coast, to fight the battles OF
Islam and to subject all the heather tribes of Africa
to the religion of God and his prophet. And like an
electric shock this message through all the coun-
tines of the Felaas and with magic power transformed
shepherds into warriors. Fodie saw himself sur
rounded by army, conscious that 1t was unconquer-
able and greedy for battle So in the beginning of the
present century, while Napoleon was preparing for the
conquest Of Europe began that remarkable movement
among the Felatas in Africa, which, though it is not
limited at in our universal histories, written in
rivers of blood upon the pages of that real universal
history where ali the deeds Of men recorded. On
the spot where Fsdie had this vifion he afterward
founded the city Sokoto the great central seat OF
the power of the Festas in Africa"
After the great mortality of the expedition of 1871,
il required considerable time to accumulate courage
enough TO attempt another Thesucc of the Plead
small encouragement TO perseverance in that path
TO Central Africa. This good fortune depended prn-
cipay upon the Plead commencing the voyage
month earlier than the previous expedition, before the
rainy season had overhowed the swamps of the delta
and poisoned it with malaria. The climate appears to
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