Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1875-10-22

I
can be picked up around the outside. ;.
STANLEY ~ AFRICA The greater part .
stanleys narrative. Published in the New
York Herald is taken up with accounts o
his skirmishes with the hostile natives anG
the sufferings of his men from the disease.
Of the country. How he made Cruel on one
occasion is thus told
d" Returning to camp from my iraitless
! hunt, was 80 struck with the pinched faces
of my. poor people that could have wept
heartily could have done 50 without ex-
citing fear of our fate in their minds. but
resolved to do something toward relieving
the pressing needs of fierce hunger. To
effect this n sheet iron trunk was omp;iei
of its contents, and being filled with water
was placed on the fire. then hruke open
our medical stores and took five pounds Of
Scotch oatmeal and three tins of rsva cnta
arabics, with which made erael 10 feed
over go men. Oh, it was rare sight to
see these poor famine stricken people hasten
10 that Torquay dress trunk and assist me
TO cook that huge pot OF Cruel, TO sec them
fan the ire TO tercer heat, and, with their
gourds fail Of water, stand by 10 cool the
fOaming liquid when it threatened to over
flow, and il was a still more rare sight to
watch the pleasure steal over their faces a.
they drank the generous food. The sick
and weaker ones received a larger portion
near my tent, and another tin of oatmeal
was opened for their supper and break
fast"
OF MS trying experience says. he with
true pathos
"a have not time-ior my work IL but
beginning-to relate 1.-THE Of our adyen-
lures, or how we suffered. You can better
imagine our perils. our novel and strange
fortunes, II you reflect on the loss Of l26
men out of such an expedition. Saeh a
loss. even in strong regiment. would be
deemed almost calamity. What name
will you give such loss when you cannot
recruit your numbers, where every man
that dies is loss that cannot be repaired.
when your work, which il to last years, is
but beginning, where each morning you
say to Yourself, rhis day may be your
last?'"
At the date Of h.s letter. he had been bat
u short time On the shores of the great Lake
Victoria Nyanza, of which he says
Now, after our long journey, line expe-
dition IS halted q hundred yards from the
lake, and as look upon its dancing waters
long to launch the Lady Alice and ven
ture ont TO explore its mysteries Though
on its shore. am a. ignorant OF its Mfg
uration and extent as any man IN England
or America. hav, questioned the natives
of Uchambi closes upon the subject at
issue. but no one can tell me positively
whether the lake Is enc or more. hear
multitude of STRANGE names, but whether
they are of countrhs OF lakes il is imposs-
BILE to divine. their knowledge OF it being
very superficial. NV impression, however.
is that Spoke, in III. bold sketch and mag
ined outline, is nearer the truth than Liy-
ingston. who reported of it upon hearsay
at great distance from its shores bu. as
soon as | can finish my letters to you and
my friends the sec, ions of the Lady Alice
will be screwed together, and the first Eng
lish boat that ever sailed on the African
lakes shall venture upon her mission of
exploring every nook and cram
ny of the shores Of the Victoria Ii is with
great pride.and pleasure | think OF our
success in conveying such large boat safe
" through the hundreds of mics of jungle |
which we have traversed. and just now |
feel as though the entire wealth OF the uni !
verse could not brihs iue to turn back from !
my work. hear ofstrango tales about the |
countries on the shores of this lake. which !
make me still more eager 10 start. One |
man reports country peepled with dwarfs,
another with giants. and another is said TO |
possess breed of sich large dogs that even
NY mas.iffs are said to have been small |
to them All these may be idle |
and lay no stress on anthing re- |
ported to me, as hope to be enabled to see /
with my own eyes all the wonders of these
lnknown countries"