Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-07-11

7 FOR ALL.---Lincoin.
HURSDAY, JULY II, Is
tenders told off as we'll as their mum
bers, armament. and morale could be
individually depended on.
The American flag was hoisted, and
the trembling inhabitants awaited the
expected attack. This, however, was
destined not to come off, for, to the
general delight, a Wauy amwezi scout
brought in the joyful intelligence that
Mirambo, with oil his forces, had re-
tired, not wishing to lisk an engage
ment, except in the jungle. Mastering
what forces were possible, the intrepid
Herald commander then started for
Ujiji, on the Tanganyika lake, or sea
OF Ujiji. The Arabs endeavored in vain
to dissuade him from this. Death,
they said, was certain to the muzanyu
(white man) and his followers. THIS
frightened the already demoralized pa
gazis, and caused a serious loss to the
expedition in the person of Shaw, the
English sailor. Undaunted by the
forebodings of Ill and the losses by de-
sertion, the caravan was once more on
the march and pushed forward, by an
other road, to the one where Mirambo
aud his Africans were awaiting the first
caravan. This road lay through an un-
trodden desert, and caused a great de-
tour in order to come again upon the
caravan road in the rear of the Waio-
wa. No great mishaps were met with,
and when the villages and cultivated
fields of sorghum and holcus were
reached, everything progressed favora-
bly,.
After four-hundred mile journey,
the outlying portions of the province
of Ujiji were reached. Word had
reached the expedition of the presence
of DR.. Livingstone in the province
within recent period, and accordingly
preparations we're made for triumphal
entry into Ujiji. The pagazis who
Glanced to he unladen, preceded, beat
ing drums and blowing upon Kndu
horns. The armed escort fred salutes
every moment, keeping up regular
feN de .f0ie, and the American flag
f1oated proudly over all. In the dis
tance lay the silver bosom of Tangany-
ika lake, at the foot of the stately
mountains in the background, and
fringed with tall trees and lovely ver-
dure. It was wonderful relief to the
pilgrims of progress. Before them lay
tho settlement or town of Uiiji, with it's
huts and houses looking dreamily like
q land of rest.
The astonished natives turned out at
the unwonted display: aud hocked III
crowds to meet them with deafering
shouts and beating of drums. Among
the advancing throng was noticed q
muscular group of turbaned Arabs.
As they advanced still nearer, one of
the group, who walked in the center,
was noticed to be differently attired
from the others. The group halted,
and the word was passed back that q
muzaugu was among them. Squirting
forward, the Herald commander indeed
saw that, strongly contrasting with the
dusky, sunburnt Arab faces, was a
hale-looking, gray.bearded white man,
wearing a navy cap, with faded gold
band and red wooden shirt. It was a
trying moment, wherein every emotion
OF hope and fear dashed through the
brain. The fatigues faded in the in
tensity of the situation. The questions,
Was this he who had so long been
sought, or could it be a delusion
of the mind, or was the white man
some unknown waif of humanity Z
crowded the mind, bringing their
changing feelings with them. A few
feet in front of the group the Herald
commander halted, dismounted, and
advanced on foot.
Preserving calmness of exterior be-
fore the Arabs which was hard to sim.
ulate as he reached the group, Mr..
Stanley said:
''Dr. Livingstone, I presumed"
A smile lit up the features of the
hale white man as he answered.: eyes,
that is my name." The meeting was
most cordial, and the wearied caravan,
joyous at the triumph of the expedi-
tion, was escorted by the multitude to
the town. After rest and meal, in
which, milk, honey and fish from Tan.
ganyika were new features, Livingstone
told his story, which is in brief as fol.
lows:
In March. 1866, he informed the Her.
aid explorer that he started with
twelve Sepoys, nine Johanna men and
seven liberated slaves. He travelled
up the Rovuma river. Before they ad
been gone very long the men became
frightened at the nature of the journey,
and the reports of hostile tribes up the
country they were to pass through. At
length they deserted him, and, as q
cover to their cowardice in doing so,
circulated the report of his death.
Livingstone proceeded on his journey
in spite of the isolation, and after some
difficult marching reached the Cham
ezbi river, which he clossed. He
found that this was not the Portuguese
Zambezi river, as had been coniectur-
ed, but, on the contrary, wholly sepa-
rate. He traced it's course, and found
it called further on the Lualaba. He
continued his explorations along
its banks for 700 miles, and has
become convinced, in consequence that
the Chamber is doubtless the source
of the Nile, and that this will make a
total length for the mystic river of A.
rica of 2, 600 miles. His explorations
also establish that the Nile is not sup
piled by Lake Tanganyika. He reach
ed within ITO miles OF the source, and
explored the surrounding ground,
when, finding himself without supplies,
he was obliged to return to Ujiji, and
was in q state of destitution there
when met by the commander of the
Herald expedition. On the 10Th of Oc-
tober, 1871, the two explorers left
Ujiji and arrived at Unyanyembe TO-
ward the end of November, where they
passed twenty-elght days together ex-
ploring the district. They then return
ed and spent Christmas together at
Ujiji. The Herald explorer arrived at
the point of sending this important
intelligence on the 18th of March,
1872, leaving Livingstone at Unyan-
yembe.
He will explore the north shore of
Tanganyika lake, and the remaining
$50 miles of the Lualaba river.
This herculean task he expects will
occupy the next two years.
Slave Beauties.
The British Government allows to
captors of slave vessels off the African
cost premium Of four pounds ster-
1iur q ton ~, n0ch vasSc1 confnroI or