The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-10-21
STANLEY.
Interesting Advices from the Latest Afri-
can Explorer.
IFrom the London Telegraph

can Explorer.
From the London Telegraph
After a 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 again reached us
from this resolute and successful ex-
plorer. Good news, indeed, it is to
know that one of the most adventurous
and perilous journeys undertaken upon
the surface of the dark continent has
reached its first stage of triumph in the
safe transit through a totally unknown
line of country, and the careful survey
upon the waters Of which Mr.. Stanley
has, after all, been the first 10 launch an
English-built vessel. It is too true that
we must qualify these epithets good
and safe /" so far as to acknowledge
that, with all his courage, skill, caution,
and Observation-Disclosures now no
longer denied in any quarter to this gal
lant gentleman-ou our Commissioner has
paid dear for the splendid results which
he has achieved.
Two of the Europeans accompanying
him succumbed to the deadly breath of
the Jungle; and tribute of honor and
respect is due, In the first place, to those
two young Englishmen, Pocock and
Barker, who have added their names to
the list of the many lnpretending mar
tyrs who have persisted for the sake OF
Africa. Moreover, in the swift and reso-
lutte march which Mr.. Stanley has made
since quitting Mpapwa, on the Unyan-
yembe road, last December, his force OF
soldiers and porters will be found to have
diminished terribly.
We shall so far anticipate the absorb
ing particulars of that march as to state
that, by desertion, dysentery, fever and
fierce fighting, as many as ISL OF his fol-
lowers were found missing from the mus
ter-roll read by the shores of Lake Vic
toria at the beginning of March. There
stood around the brave leader only 166
men when he camped at Kagehyi, IN
Uchambi; but these were we'll seasoned
by the swift progress which Stanley had
made, and his letters, public and private,
breathe the spirit of answering resolu-
ton and of a just satisfaction at what had
been achieved. He reports himself
amply provided with men, guns, and
supplies of all kinds, even at the close of
this remarkable march, for that it is most
remarkable will be allowed by all who
know the condition of African travel
From Bagamoyo to the Victoria Lake
is a distance Of nearly 75O miles, follow
ing Stanley's route, and this was ac-
complished in 103 days. The last expe-
dition which proceeded to Unyanyembe
took seven months to cover that 525
miles of we'll known road, while the
larger portion of Stanley lay through
perfectly unknown district, the extraor-
binary hardships of which will be under
stood when we are at liberty to lay the
full details of this hardy enterprise before
the public.
Through matted iungles and waterless
plains, through mountain ranges and
swamps, over rivers and wilderness, 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 the year,
led his men increasingly, carrying with
him all the way his, little vessel. the
Lady Alice, which was at last triumph
antly put together and launched on
the broad bosom of the Victoria NJ
yanza.
Spite OF all losses and difficulties, he
stood there On the LIST of March last-as
he aw-ites-well equipped for two years
more good work, with men whom he
could perfectly trust, and one Of the
most dangerous portions of this toll ac-
complished. We feel confident tina
when the story of this march to the
N'vanza is read he will take a place in
public estimation worthy of the friend
and helper of Livingstone as one OF
the most skillful, daring, and successful
of all modern travellers.
His first letter describes the journey
from the Unyanyembe road to the
N'yanza his second comprises C.e-
scription of this splendid inland sea,
written after voyage Of upward OF ], 900
miles made round it's shores and upon
its surface. Geographers everywhere
will naturally burn with anxiety to know
what is the truth about that lake or lakes,
the character of which was ever one OF
the main problems of African research.
Spoke. the discoverer, with Grant, of
the Victoria, always held the water to be
one and undivided. He saw an immense
extent of it from Muanza, and caught
once and again distant prospects OF it's
western glitter as. he joufneyed 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 at least five small bodies OF water !;
and this idea. that it was made up OF
separate lakeiets, and could not be com
pared with the other inland seas OF Cen
trail Africa for size or depth, has OF Late
gained much ground, especially as small
er sheets have been recently found near
it to the north.
We must not anticipate the revelations
of Mr.. SANKEY'S second letter but we
can venture to assure geographers that
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