The New York herald., 1876-07-27
NEW YORK HERALD THURSDAY, JULY u, 1876
stanley's Recent Discoveries.

In the special dispatches which we pub
lished yesterday from another parcel of let
ters received in London from Henry M.
Stanley, chief of the African Exploring Ex-
pedition of the New YORK HERALD and Lon
don Telegraph, an outline is given of the
continuation of his explorations and their
results on the west side of the great equa-
torial lake. Victoria Niyanza, and in the
great divide between the Victoria and the
Albert lakes, from June, 1876 to April "a,
1876. From these dispatches it appears
that our intrepid and industrious explorer
had thoroughly completed his appointed
work of the circumnavigation of the Victoria
Lake and the determination of its area,
coast line, bays, islands, tributary streams
and bordering mountains and plains had
twice crossed the divide from lake to lake,
and had traversed its southern section, pre-
viously unexplored, to the dividing ridge or
plateau between the basin of the two great
Nile lakes and the basin of Lake Tangan-
yika, and, descending that watershed on
the southern side, was within few days
march of Ujiji on the date of his last despatch.
We are advised that Stanley's reports Of
these explorations embrace geographical and
chronological discoveries of the highest i'm
portance, and we anticipate details of sur
passing interest. particularly IN the nara
tive of his researches and discoveries in the
southern division of that magnificent equa-
torial area of the Upper Nile basin, of which,
to the outside world, nothing hitherto has
been known. That experienced, ablo and
courageous African explorer, Sir Samuel
Baker with powerful army column in the
service of the Egyptian Khedive. narrowly
escaped destruction with his command by
the ferocious and warlike savages of that re-
gion. He escaped only by persistent and
skilful fighting for many days in succession,
and was compelled to retreat before COM
pleting the reconnaissance he had under
taken. Stanley has penetrated and passed
through those hostile regions from which
and it is within those savage domains that he
has been rewarded for his perseverance in
the wonderful discoveries OF which we are
awaiting his full reports.
The remarkable mountain, Gambaragara,
on the elevated slopes of which, with their
temperate climate he found tribe of pale
faces, marking different race of aborigines
from any of the black-skinned natives of the
plains, is probably peak Of the same range
as that to which Mtumbiro Mountain,
which we have on many maps of Equatorial
Africa, belongs If so, however, it is noun
tain which preceding explorers have seen
only from great distances, and upon the
sides of which Stanley and his party will
henceforth be recorded as the first foreign
intruders.
After revisiting the almost sacred ground to
him of Ujiji Mr.. Stanley's plan Of operations
was to return for thorough reconnaissance
Of Lake Albert and its shores and drainage );
but we dare say that he will not have re-
turned before determining from actual OBJ
servation the destination Of Livingstone's
great interior river, the Lualaba. From what
he has accomplished we know that he is not
an explorer who will leave any unsettled
problem within his field of research to infer
ence or conjecture.