The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-10-30
STANLEY IN AFRICA.
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London Daily Telegraph
| After long and unbroken silence
characteristic of the vast and unbroken
solitudes through which Mr.. Stanley
and his followers have been making
their way-dispatches have apain reach
| ed us from this res0lute and successful
explorer, and we were yesterday enabled
to indicate the heads OF the extremely
interesting tidings which have arrived.
| Good news, indeed, ii is to know that
one of the most adventurous and per
ilous journeys undertaken upon the sur
! face of the dark continent has reached
| its first stage Of triumph in the safe
transit through II totally unknown line
| of country and the careful survey of the
shores of that magnificent lake upon
the waters of which Mr. Stanley had
after all, been the first to launch an
English-built vessel. 1t is too true
| that We must qualify these epithcts
good" and safe" % far as to ac-
knowledge that, with all his courage.
skill, caution and forethought quail
lies now no longer denied in any quarter
of this gallant gcntleman-our commits
sioner has paid dear for the splendid
results which he has achieved.
We mentioned yesterday that two of
the Europeans accompanying him bad
succumbed to the deadly breath of the
jungle; and tribute of honor and re-
spect is due, iii the first place, to those
young Englishmen, Peacock and Barker,
who have added their names to the list
OF many unprctending martyrs who have
| persisted for the sake of Africa More
over, in the swift and rcsolutc march
which Mr.. Stanley has made, since quit
ting Mpapwa, on the Unyanyembc road,
last December, his force of soldiers and
porters will be found to have diminished
terribly.
We shall so far anticipate the particu-
lars of that march as TO state that by de
sertion, dysentery, fever, and fierce fight
ing, As many as Isl of the followers were
found missing from the muster-roll read
bv the shores of Lake Victoria at the be
| ginning of march. There stood around
the brave leader only 166 men when he
camped at Kagehyi, in Uchambi; but
gress which Stanley had made, and his
letters, public and private, breathe the
spirit OF answering resolution and of a
just satisfaction at what had been
achieved He reports himself amply
provided witt. men, guns, and supplies
of all kinds, even at the close of this re-
markable march, for that it is most re-
markable will be allowed by all who
know the condition of African travel.
From Bagamoyo to the Victoria lake
is a distance of nearly $50 miles, follow
ing Stanley's route, and this was accom-
plished in 103 days. The last expetli-
ton which proceeded to Unyanyembe
took seven months to cover that 525
miles of well-known road, while the
larger portion of Stanley's lay through Il
perfectly unknown district.
Through matted junGles and water
less plains, through mountains ranges
and swamps, over rivers and wilder
nesses, and with or without the leave
of fierce tribes new to the sight of the
white man and his wonderful goods,
our commissioner, during those first
months of this year, led his men I'M
ceasingly, carrying with him all the
way his little vessel, the Lady Alice,
which was at last triumphantly put to-
@ether and launched on the broad bosom
of the Victoria N'yanza.
EQUIPPED FOR TWO YEARS MORE WORK.
Spite of all losses and difficulties he
stood there on the LIST of March last-as
he writes-well equipped for two years
more of good work. with men whom he
could perfectly trust, and one of the
most dangerou. portions of his tod &C
complished.
THE GREENLAND SEA.
His first letter describes the journey
from the Unyanyembe road to the
\ yanza; bis second comprises de-
scription of this splendid inland sea,
written after Il voyage of upward OF
one thousand miles made around its
shores and upon its surface. Spoke, the
discovcrer, with Grant, of the Victoria,
al, lalI no 70 no and
undivided He saw an immense extent
of it from Muanzo, and caught once
and again different prospects of its
western glitter as he journeyed toward
Uganda, while at the Ripon Falls he
once more beheld what he took to be
the SAME great lake from the northward.
Livingstone on the other hand, from
hearsay, judged the Victoria to consist
of ut least five small bodies of water;
and this idea, that is was made OF
separate lakelets, and could not be COM
pared with the other inland seas of
Central Africa for size or depth, has of
late gained much ground, especially as
smaller sheets have been recently found
near it to the north.
Stanley makes the Victoria N'yanza
much higher above the sea level than
Spoke, Just as Cameron corrected Bur
ton and Spoke about the latitude of
Tanganyka. 1t is, at least, evident
from these differences that no theory
can be securely founded upon isolated
observations until verified, and this has
much significance for other regions of
the map besides those of the N'yanza.
Along with the very important letter
describing the passage of the Lady Alice
round and across the Victorian waters,
we have also received a sketch map of
her voyage, which included in its peri
plus" o visit to King Mtesa's capital in
Uganda, close to the Victoria Nile.
And here it appears that our very sue
cessful commissioner met and spent some
time with Col. Tenant de Bellefonds, of
Gordon's staff, but the communication
describing this happy encounter and por
traying the northern shore of the lake
has not arrived along with the Others.
1t is probable that the manuscript was
committed to Col. Gordon's officer, and
is now on its way to us by the Upper
Nile and Soudan, and it will no doubt,
arrive TO complete one of the most pro-
foundly interesting chapters of African
discovery. Meanwhile the revelation
mlde by the narrative in the two letters
is sufficiently plain to remove all doubts
us to the character of the Victoria lake
and the public and the geographers will
see how generously King Mtesa supplied
our explorer with men and boats, and
how he returned to Usukuma and his |
camp at Uchambi just in time to avert
one of those disastrous panics which an
absent commander has always to dread
in African travel.
There are, we may safely promise, all |
the ingredients, of adventure in this |
double Neutrality-suspicious. marching, |
fierce conflicts, perils by land and water,
novel scenery. marvellous reports of re-
gions peopled by dwarfs and giants, sup
pers made on lions meat, stories of a
breed of dogs rs big us donkeys-in fact
food for every taste.
He was busily preparing for a fresh de
parture into regions whereon every step |
must bring him nearer To momcntou~
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