Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-10-03
AFRICA.
The Livingstone and Baker Expe-
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The anxiety felt for the Fate Of the
great African explorer. DIR. Living
stone, has pf0mpted some ofthe Lon
don papers TO caii upon the British
Government tOsend out immediately
such expeditions q shall sweep the
whole continent Of Africa in search
Of him. Ii is suggested that small,
but well armed steamers shall ascend
the navigable rivers in the neighb6r-
hood Of the spot where he was last
heard of, and that they shall carry out
! detachments Of troops sufficient to
aunihilate all the resistance which
could be offered by the natives. II
they do not find him, the fact Of such
expeditions having been sent out will,
il h. Supposed, impress the African
chiefs with an idea OF European power,
aud make them respect travellers for
the future. These whO suggest such a
scheme might IL well 90 a little fur
Their, and insist on the military Oceu-
PATTON ofthe interior Of Africa, and
tine deposition OfsuCh barbarOu5 mon
archs rs the King OF Cazembe. An
other suggestion might be Oflered 10
the capitalists OF England and the
British Government, VIZ the. on
structiOn of an overland railway from
Angela To Zanzibar, whereby a saving
of 500 miles would be effected in the
Journey from England 10 india, and
the doubling OF the stormy Cape Of
Good Hope would be avoided. The
COanze river might be made servicea-
bic for q considerable distance from
the Atlantic towards the MOeambe
Mountains, which would have to be
crossed or tunneiled through; thence
TO Cabang0, CdZembe, or Lgcamba
and Quilsa, or some other point on the
seabOard Of the Indian Ocean.
DIR. Livingstone has already ex-
plOred a large portion Of the country
between Lake Nyassi Cazembe, and
is probably at this moment (as sug-
gested by Sir ROderiC MurchisOn) ex-
plOring the remainder of it between
CazemDe and the MOcambe Noun
tains, which he visited some years
back. The length of such a line OF
railway would be about 1900 miles,
which, in these days OF triumphant
engineering, is nothing very great.
This suggestion Is thrown cut for the
consideration Of those who advocate
military expeditions to sweep the in
terior'of Africa, the expense of which
would far exceed the cost or the other
scheme, aud BE- OF very little ultimate
benefit. As the formation of grand
routes IS the leading feature OI the
age, il would not be surprising il, in
a few YER, some enterpFising COM
pany SHOuitt undertake. 10 construct a
olte across Africa, from the Blight Of
Biafra 10 the strait Of Bah ell Maudeb,
Il i, Is~A..,~. - aE-~r~ 4-LE i'll 18Th.
would cat u straight line from the
mouth OF the Amazon to Bombay. Let
no one regard this "a visionary. Al
ready Sir samuel Baker Is at the head
OF an expedition, consisting of "A to
tHla OF ten steamers and thirty sail
ing crafts, with troops on board, COM
pri-ing several regiments, with engi-
neers and artillery. Along with these
are ifty shipwrights, who are 10 build
vessels Tor Inc navigation of the lake
Albert Nyanza. The expedition will
rendezvous ut khartsum. at the con-
fiueuce of the Blue and White Nile,
and il Will proceed thence along the
latter stream 50 lar rs 1t Is navigable.
The first Objeet OF Sir samuel Baker
IS to eXtirpate the slave trade: he is
empowered by the Niccr1y of Egypt
to recapture and settle aft slaves on
whom he can lay his hands along the
course of the White Nile, and plant
them on a tract of fertile land hy that
river, providing them with seeds, az.
ri%cultural implements and cattle. y
good road Is to be made from GOnd-
SherO, a settlement ON the White Nile,
to the lakes Albert AMI NictOrii Ny
ANA, As a portage past the last Of the
eataracts, and a grand depot Is to he
established in latitude 3 -, from
which point the river j. navigabIe to
the Albert NyanZa. ON that lake,
ships will be constructed, 50 that its
entire length (abOut 30 miles, will be
trayerSed without difficulty. There
the expedition will be stopped BY u
spur of the Lunar Mountains, di-cOv-
cred by Spoke and GIANT IN 1853, but
from the northern end OF che lake the
White Nile continues its course to the
Lake Victoria NyaRza, where it loses
itself. The last named lake Is 3D
miles broad and 80 mixes from north
to south, being triangular iR-Lmpe.
Its western shore is aiNdr go miles
distant from Lake T~augapyika, which
was discovered by Burt0b in 1859, and
recently visited by Livingstone. 1t
Will thus be seen that II Sir Samuel
Baker should succeed III making 4
regular lineOf communication b yrOad
and steanler between kharCsum and
the southern part flake TangdHyika,
he viii have established direct COM
m~unieatiOn between lhe latter and
Alexandria, and consequently with
the whole world. He will have ira
versed 24OO miles of country, and
opened up TO coumerce and calfiva-
ton a vast terribly said to contain an
inexhaustibly &rtile soil, a rieh eli
mate, a beemiE population. and e
cry almost uEriyalIed tor beauty aud
GRANDEUR.
AnOthF victim has Just been added
70 the number who have persisted in
AfrlcR explOrat. on. Miss Time, a
CONSCIOUS young Dutch lady of for
tunS, in attempting to penetrate into
tN interior of Africa by way of Trip
oil and MOuTzOuk, has been numbered
by the savages Of the Great Desert.
Her sister peTished in the lands of the
Upper Nile many years ago. Miss
had traversed Arabia, Nubia, and
other wild regions, speaking Arabic
and some of the Negro dialects fiu-
CAAaANs 0AAAAs hlAAE AEhACAlAlE nC1 AdlE~
it is not TO be lost sight Of that such
enterprises, unsafe at the bestOf times
or men, are peculiarly 50 for women,
because among the fierce inhabitants 2
or the desert and of the savage wilds
of Africa there is very little respect
for the sex. The encrOachments of the
French in Algeria have reused a feel
ing 0f hatred among the black Mos
lens OF Barbary, TriPoli and Sahara
Europeans. They are also
robbers by nature, and a lady must be
bold, indeed, who would venture
among them unprotected. What
Miss Time hoped to achieve by her
il~l-starred journey it is nOt easy to inn {
beyond gaining a personal in
sight into the characteristics of the
great Desert, which have long been
known to the world.
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