New-York tribune., 1874-05-29

,ections to any theory which he adopts He mentions
that shary reaches its hight In Marcn
wee is at it's highest In April This fact woula DO :"
conclusive against the identity OF tne wo
streams especially as the chief evidence which pr'
schweinfurth brings forward In support OF MS 'heoy
the assertion OF the natives that the Wehe nows '
north west until It finally falls into lake. No.hins
more untrnstworthy than native Africans geograpn-
ical factso can be imagined. Indeed Speke usually
that direct opposite Of assertion OF tue
.ort made 10 him by communicative Africans must De
the truth In the face Of admitted fact that the
shary has its food earlier the Wele. the assertion
of the NyamNyam savages is not worth quoting.
The probability that the Welle is identical with the
Benuur Is certainly great, II not greater, than the
probability that 1t any connection with the Shary
The banks OF trees and fruits that are
found the Atlantic coast suggests that 1t river
of the Atlantic watershed instead OF the Lake Toad
BASIN There is, however important fact mentioned
by chwenfurth which directly in favor Of the theory
that the wee fasnto the Atlantic south OF the Blight
of Benin and is connected neither with the shary nor
the Benuur On it's banks dwell the Nyam-Nyam
whose remarkable resemblance In color customs, ana
personal pecuarities to the Fans, is dwet upon ct
much length by SchweDfurh, Now the Fans are found
In the Gaboon region, to which they have migrated
within the present generation from the north-east-
their be trusted Their present haoitate1
tends from the equator south nearly to the Ogoba River
which emptes into the Atlantic hundred miles south
of the Gaboon French expedition which partially
explored OGobai in 1862 found that $50 miles from
its mouth IL formed by the union OF two streams,
Of which, the Okanda, was believed by the French
explorers to have origin in the neghborhood OF Lake
Toad. OF this latter spposon Is Incorrect but
nevertheless know that the Okanda flows from the
direction which 1t would naturally take we're
ii identical with the Wee. Let us suppose as Schwein-
furth does that the Fans the same as the Nyam-
Nyams. Were tribe Of the latter migrate toward
the west they would almost inevitably follow the course
OF the river which their people had dwelt from tmo
mmemoral This river IL 1t is the same as the Okands,
would bring them to the coast in the immediate neigh
borhood of the locality where Du Chailu and Reade
actually the Fans. II suppose that the Fans
and the NyamNyams IDENTICAL their presence near
the mouth OF the Ogobai is very strong argument In
favor Of the theory OF the identity Of that river with
the Wele. Like most other African discoveries, how
ever the discovery OF the wee must be completed by
some subsequent explorer At present it is like the
Niger in the days Of Mungo Parka river the mouth Of
which is mysterous,as were once the sources OF the
Nile.
Another geographical fact OF marked importance
which to Sch wenfurth is the proof that "Piag
gias Lake." large expanse of water invented by that
ingenious person. has existence whatever There are
no large lakes in the Gaza region, and geographers
who have been ured into giving Piaggias Lake prom
position their maps will henceforth obterate 1t
completely they have obliteraed their once cher
ished Mountains OF the Moon
sngulary fruitful of important results. Vague
OF the Nyam-Nyams lhadafr ltime to time reached
Europe. They said to be nation OF cannibals,
provided with tails several inches in length for the ac-
commodation OF which they accustomed to use
chairs pierced with small hole in which the tail could
neatly fitted Thel basis aof truth in this legend
fully ascertaned by Scweinfurth, iwho yspent some
months with the Nyam -Nyams
Before reaching these people he passed through the
counryof the Bongo savages whose dress consists OF
grde, from which depends strip OF calico which does
duty as artificial tail. immediately south of the
Nyam Nyams the Monbuttoo, who constantly carry
about with them stools in which holes pierced for
convenience of transportation The Nyam-Nyams and
also the Monbutoo cannbals In these three closely
Contiguous nations thus ud customs which explain
the stories Of the tailed canubas with their accommo-
dating stools.
Like the Bongo and the Monbuttoo the Nyam-Nyams
red rather than black thus aordng fresh confrma-
ton OF the theories ungeniousy argued by Winwood
Reade that the true African Is red man. ana H is or
when poisoned by the malaria OF the coast that
he becomes jet black. The two cannibal ma
tions-;he Nyam-Nyams and the Monbuttoo-are
vastly superior in Intelligence and bravery to
the negroes who are less liberal in their dietary
views Curiously enough this superiority of
canniba nations a general rule, and 1t is exempfed
by the Battas the NewZeaanders and the Fjians, all
OF whom brave aud intelligent to an extent that
sharply contrasts them with the noncannibas of kindred
The NyamNYams are evident favolltes with Dr.
Schwenfurth, and amiably supplied him with large
quantity of skulls for his collection OF ehnographica
carosities The the good Doctors heart could
always be found by aid Of skull, and If there was
time when he particularly inclined to look with
favor upon his sable hosts it when in the quiet of
his tent he beamed through his specaces upon heads
fresh from the NyamNyam tables cheerully boiling IN
his caudron preparatory 10 being labeled ana packed
away with his other treasures.
Of been
widely published that it needs only passing notice
here Dr. Schweinfurth has established the fact that
Immediately south Of the MonbutOo Kingdom there is
nation called the AkkaAkka which closely corresponds
TO the pigmy nation Of classic legend. The average
hight of a full-grown Akka-AkBa Is but
little over four feet, and although these dwarfs
are ugly and somewhat misshapen. they are strong,
active. aud brave. DR.. schweinfurth succeeded in
securing young pigmy, intending to bring him to En-
rope, unfortunately the boy died soon after leaving
KhartOum on the voyage down the Nnbian Nile. The
Venetian traveller Miami who followed in schweinfurths
footsteps and who recently died in the Gazal region,
sent two specimens of the Akka-Akka tribe to Aexan
dra as present the Italian Royal Geographical soe
ety. These were recently seen by Mr. Bayard Taylor,
and fully described in a letter to THE TRIBUNE.
Ii was the desire OF the explorer extend his journey
either to the west OF Africa Bernon. lie was,
however compelled to follow the wry hunters TO whom
he had attached himself, and thus much against his
WILL to set out the march bomeward early IN 1871 On
the 26th OF the following June he embarked on board
Nile boat at head OF the Bahr ell GaZal and reached
Kharoum the 2lst OF July. He had been absent
than three years, and during the whole of that
time had enjoyed a complete exemption from the fever.
His singular good fortune in this respect he attributes
to his Of Quinine prophy ylactic months be-
fore he entered district Not the least import
ant of his discoveries is this method OF battling 1.-THE
deadly climate OF equatorial Africa.
We have purposeIy refrained from dung the readers
esque descriptions Of natural scenery the exciting
stories OF adventure with which these two volumes are