The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-10-12


many days. was impatient to continue my
survey Of the lake and to reach Usukuma,
having been so long absent from the expedi-
ton, during which time many things con-
trary to my success and peace Of mind might
have occurred.
sPEKRs IATITUDEs CORRECTED.
I took my observations twice day with a
sea horizon-one at noon for latitude, and
one in the afternoon for longitude-and 7
am sorry to say that, if 1 am right, Spoke is
about fourteen miles wrong in his latitude
along the whole coast of Uganda. The mouth
of the Katonga River, for instance, according
to his map, is a little south of the Equator.
have made it by meridian altitude,
observed April 90, to be in latitude
0 deg. 16 min. 0 secs. north. Thus it is
nearly with all his ATTITUDES. His longitudes
and mine vary but little; but this is easily
accounted for. The longitude of any posi-
ton can be taken with chronometer, SEX
tant, and artificial horizon with the same
accuracy on land as on sea. If there is any
difference it is very likely to exist in the
error of the chronometers. What instru-
ments Spoke possessed to obtain his lati-
tudes know not, but if he found the alti-
tude of the sun ascending above 65 deg he
could never obtain it with an ordinary sex
tent except by double altitude, and that
method is not SO exact as taking a simple
meridian on a quiet lake, with an ample
horizon of water But there are various
methods of determining ones latitude and
Spoke was familiar with many. My posi-.
tons all round the lake have been determined
with q sea horizon. When near noon my
plan was, if the lake was rough, to seek the
nearest island or quiet cape at the extremity
of bay, and there take my observations as
deliberately as though my life depended on
their accuracy.
But this task was, indeed, work of pleas
ure for me, and / have found rich reward
for most of my pains and stormy life on this
lake in looking at the fair extent of white on
my map, with all it's bends, curves inlets,
creeks, bays, capes debouchures of rivers
&C., known by the name of Victoria Niyanza-
Any errors which may have crept into my
calculations will be determined by compe-
tent authorities on my return from Africa, OF
Meantime / send my map as / have made it.
The Katonga is not large river and has
but one mouth. The Amionzi River emptiea
itself into the Niyanzi about eight miles w.
S. w. of the Katonga
Uganga stretches to the Kagerah, situated
in S. lat, deg. 40 min. On the south side oil
the river begins Usongora, extending to S.
lat. deg South of deg. is Kamiru extend
ing to S. lat l deg Is min.
Thence is Uwya, o country similar in en-
terprise to Ukerewe's people. Beyond Uwya
is Uzinja or Uzinza, called by the Wanyam-
wezi Mweri.
RETURN TO KAGEHYI
Uzinja continues as far south as Jordan's
Nnllah, and east of it is Usukuma again, and
one days sail from Jordan's Nullah we pass
Muanza, which Spoke reached in 1858, and
brings us home to Kagehyi, and to our
camp, where we are greeted joyfully by such
as live to mourn the poor fellows who, in
my absence, have been hurried by disease
to untimely graves.
must be brief in what have to say now
did think to make this q long letter, bu
Simgoros slave, who carries this, is in
hurry to 90, as his caravan has already
started
THE NEXT LETTER.
Ny next letter must continue this from
the Kagera River, called in Karagwe the
Kitangule, and it shall describe some foul
adventures that we went through, which
caused us to appear in wretched condition
to our expedition. Though our condition
was so wretched, it was not half so bad as i.
would have been had we returned two DAYS
on for Il uhath r
have had an expedition at all. / had been
absent too long, and our fight with the
Wavuma had been magnihed and enlarged
by native rumor to such pitch that Vol.
seley's victory at Ardahsu was as nothing ia
ours, for it had been said that we had de.
stroyed a whole fleet of canoes, not
one of which had escaped, and that some
other tribe or tribes had collected force,
overtaken US, and destroyed us in like man.
ner-an incredible story, which had so won
upon faction of the soldiers, that they had
determined to return to Unyanyembe, and
thence to Zanzibar. But God has been With
rs here, and on the lake, and, though wa
have suffered some misfortune, He has pro-
tected US from greater ones.
We had been absent from camp fifty-eight
days, during which we had surveyed in our
brave little boat over 1000 miles of lake
shores; but part of the southwest coast
has yet to be explored. We shall not
leave the Niyanza, however, until we have
thoroughly done our work.
FREDERICK BARKERs DEATH.
l returned to find also that one of the
white men, Frederick Barker of the Lang
ham Hotel, London, had died on the 23d %
April twelve days before | reappeared at
Kagehyi His disease was, as near as can
make it out from Frank Pocock's description,
q congestive chill-that is the term applied
to it in the States. Pocock calls it cold
fits, term every whit believe, as appro-
pirate. / have known several die of these
'cold fits" or aguish attacks-the prelimi-
nary symptoms of severe attacks of the inter-
mittent fever. These aguish attacks, how
ever, sometimes end the patient before
the fever arrives which generally fol-