The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-10-08
PROGRESS in AFRICA.
Americans Lead the Way-What the Yam
kee is Doing Toward Civilizing Africa.

Americans Lead the Way-What the Yam
lSee is Doing Toward Civilizing Africa.
The London Dailg Nel0S publishes an
interesting account from Egypt of the
progress of the Khediye's officers III eX-
ploring and opening up the interior of
Africa 10 civilization, from which we ex-
tract the following
/ Col. Long, the young American officer,
who made himself famous by his daring
and successful expedition to M'tesa, and
who has since made other equally sue
cessful explorations, has returned to
Cairo, bringing back five natives of diff
ferent tribes, together with many curious
war weapons and implements, showing
the different degrees of civilization at
tanned. He gives a most graphic ac-
count of his adventures, and may be ex-
pected soon in Europe TO make prepara-
tions for other explorations which are to
be entrusted to him, to penetrate farther
into the heart of Africa under the Khe-
dives auspices. Seven steamers now ply
between Khartoun and Ragaff, above
which the rapids render the Nile unnavi-
gable. The distance between Khartoun
and Gordons headquarters is over 1000
miles
He has established lines OF posts so as
to keep his communications open, and
has made peace with the tribes with whom
Baker was at war, adroitly availing him
self of Abon Saood Bakers bete noir) in
the first place, and then dismissing him,
thus checking the slave trade most eff
fectually by turning its instruments to
other uses. Gordon has proved great
II -, e
try has cost the government nothing, as
he has made it self-sustaining by the
produce he has sent to Cairo. Col. Pur-
dy (an American officer in the Khedive's
service) has reached the capital of Oar
fur, and reports that there is plenty of
water in the Nile between that point
and the point of his departure, so that
the obstacles which baffled Baker seems
no longer to exist.
Col. Colston (also an American officer
is pushing on probably into the interior
by another route while Mitchell, the
geologist of the Gordon expedition, who
is not from Kennar, between the Nile
and the Red Sea, has discovered two
gold mines, formerly worked in ancient
times, the shaft still open. He reports
that with modern appliances one of these
shafts could be profitably worked. In
fact, the energetic Khedive, seconded by
equally energetic officers, is pushing ex-
plorations OF all kinds into this terra in
cognita with q success equal to his ef-
forts. Germany is working along the
western coast of Africa France is or
ganizing an expedition from Senegal
Stanley is pushing on from the eastern
coast, and the dream of the heroic Liv-
ingstone seems at last in process of
speedy fulfillment.
-Four European Powers have success
fully established themselves on the west
ern coast of Africa-Dutch, Portuguese,
French and English. For 235 years the
Dutch flag foated over the Fort of Elmi-
ma, on which Maurice of Nassau placed
it in 1877, after which it was abandoned.
France has long held Senegal, and En-
gland Sierra Leone and the adjacent
and Portugal since 1415
has been an African land-holder, still
holding Lower Guinea. But, with JUS
tice, this region has ever been considered
the unhealthiest on the globe while the
Nile basin, with cultivation and civiliza-
ton, is capable of becoming a garden,
according to the more recent account of
is explorers.