The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-12-10
The Latest News from Arrica.


The latest news from Gordon an
nounces that he has successfully trans
ported steamer to Appudo. Appudo,
or Affudo, as it is also spelled, is situated
on the Nile at about two degrees thirty
minutes, north latitude. 1t was the
furthest point reached by Miami, whose
name Speke saw there carved upoI a
tree. What makes the news especially
important is that Appudo is above the
last of the cataracts that Obstruct the
navigation OF the Nile, between the Al
bert lake and Gondokoro. Gordon can
now explore the lake with his steamer,
and it is safe TO presume that he has
already done so; thus anticipating Stanley
who, when the steamer reached Appudo,
was still ut the king of Uganda's capital
The same paragraph in the London
Times, which contains these facts, also
mentions than Cameron was at Tan
-ganyka for eight months, trying to go
the western route between Uganda and
Zanzibar, which was interrupted by the
Karaque, tribe two degrees south. This
is quite unintelligible, though it gives
us the assurance that Cameron has aban-
doned his wild scheme of following down
the Lualaba Tor Congo) to its mouth,
and is still alive and in the neighbOrhOOd
of Tanganyka. Since Zanzibar is east,
or rather southeasterly, of Uganda, the
allusiOn to a westerly route between the
two is extremely puzzling. The Kara
que tribe might possibly mean the peo-
pie of Karaque, but I.umanika, the king
of Karaque, is very friendly to white
men, and his people would hardly inter
fere with Cameron. The safety of Cam
eron, however, is the one intelligihle part
of the news, and it will be a great relief
to the countless admirers of that gallant
officer, who, on the assumption that he
had started on voyage across the con-
tinent by way of the Lualaba, never eX-
pected to hear any further tidings from
him. 1t was the intention of Stanley to
explore the Albert lake by circumnavi-
eating it in his boat. When he learns,
as he undoubtedly will, that Gordon has
anticipated his design, ne will doubtless
march at once to the head of Tanganyka,
and follow the Lukuga (the outlet of the
lake, TO its junction with the Lualaba
1t is well known that he aims to com
plete the explorations begun by Liv-
ingstOn in the Lualaba valley, and the
brilliant success which he has already
attained will probably encourage him to
make the attempt, now evidently aban
doned by Cameron, to descend the Lu-
alaba to the sea. 1t is, however, earnestly
to be hoped that he viii not undertake
an enterprise so certain to end in ire
trievable disaster. The circumnaviga-
tion of the Albert lake will convince
Stanley that it has no connection with
the Lualaba, as he is now decidedly of
the opinion that it has, and he will
therefore know, without further eXplor-
alton, that the Lualaba is the Congo.
1t will be much wiser for him to leave
the Lualaba at its most nerthcrly point,
and march nOrthward across the Welle,
to the Bahr el Gael, and so by way of
the Nile back to the regions of civiliza-
tion. He will probably see the wisdom
of this course, and will adopt it. He
will then have made the grandest jour
ney ever yet made in Africa, and can
return to enjoy his well-carned honors as
the true discOverer of the source of the
Nile. Within the present month we
have learned where lie the furthest
sources of the Nile; we have had
the important announcement that
steamer has been virtually launched on
the Albert lake, and we have received
the news of CameTOn's safety. Never
before, in the whole history of African
has so much and so impOr-
tant news been received within so brief
a time.-Ne1g YOrE Times