The New York herald., 1876-07-26
Later News from MIR. Stanley-EIpfo-
ratiOns in Africa.

year has passed since the last intelligence
was received from our gallant correspondent,
and some of the English journals were be-
ginning to express fears that upon him had
fallen a fate like that which befell Living
stone. The success of Lieutenant Cameron
and the renewed interest in African affairs
which the reports of his adventures excited
Will add new value to the news We print
from Mr.. Stanley, and which will be read
with qualification throughout the civilized
globe. No one has done better or more intel
ligent work in disclosing the interesting Sc
crets OF Africa than Mr.. Stanley, and it will
be a source of great satisfaction to our readers
that this long hidden and almost despaired
of hero of Equatorial exploration has been
heard from
Away in the very heart of that mysterious
land which has so long baffied the re-
sources OF science, the representative of
that mightiest power of civilization. the
newspaper, lays bare the secrets of Old Time
and tramples under foot the obstacles which
climate, disease and distance have erected
across his onward path. Men who regard
| Stanley's work in Central Africa as
! deriving importance only from the
reflected enthusiasm of coterie
! OF scientific zealots fail to realize
the magnitude or value of his labors. AS
long as hundred square miles of the earth's
surface, not to say an entire continent, re-
mains a terra incognitd can man be said to be
in possession of his inheritance. Stanley,
ko n IN m hnc ic n m hic
fellow men, a vast area on which the mill
ions of the future will reap the re-
ward of their ingenuity and energy,
their commercial and agricultural enter
prise. Mountains, valleys, plains, lakes
and seas which TEEN with untold wealth
are opened up to the occupation and use Of
man, SO that it would seem as if new earth
were about to take the place of that which
has become exhausted under the constant
demands Of it's inhabitants.
After circumnavigating the great reservoir
of Lake Victoria Niyanza and fully estab-
fishing it as the basin into which the foun-
tains Of the Nile poured before they
flowed in an unobstructed. and combined
stream toward the land of Egypt, Stanley
has boldly endeavored to establish the rela-
tionship which the vast lakes Of the African
equatorial zone bear to the ancient river and
to each other. On board the stanch little
Lady Alice he has explored every indenta-
ton OF the coast, searched every nook and
Granny, as it were, along the shores of this
great inland sea and the numerous islands
that dot it's broad surface. According to the
latest advices from our gallant explorer, and
which give the details of one years labor in
the vicinity of lakes Victoria and Albert
NiyanZa, Stanley has accomplished his task
with wonderful fidelity and success. His
first letter, which is dated Mahyiga
Island, in Lake Victoria Niyanza, gives the
details of his return voyage from the friendly
King Mtesa's capital at the head of the Vic
toria Nile to the camping ground at Nah
yiga, which he proposed as the starting
point tor his next great expedition. In this
journey he and his party became exposed to,
not the least to be dreaded dangers of Cen
tral African explorations, massacre at the
hands Of the Bumbirehs, the savage inhabi-
tants of the lake shore and the large island
that lies on the western side of the lake.
BY stubborn valor and consummate skill rs
leader Stanley escaped disaster and
succeeded in reaching his camp in
safety. From thence the spirit Of ex-
ploration and desire to perfect his work
led him to make the difficult and dangerous
voyage across the lake to the island of Uke-
rewe, which he had visited and explored at
the commencement of his decentralization
of the Victoria Niyanza. There he delayed
little time, and, being resolved to give
lesson to the barbarous Bumbirehs, who had
attacked him short time before, he re-
turned to their island stronghold and there
administered such q punishment to the
savages as will teach them the duty of hos
pitality to travellers.
From Bumbireh, as our dispatches inform
US, Stanley travelled direct to Uganda,
which is n territory Of King Mtesa's lying
between the Victoria and the Albert Nj
yunzas and the Victoria Nile. Here the inde-
fatigable traveller resolved TO cross the coun-
try which divides the two great lakes and
thoroughly explore its physical character, as
we'll as see for himself the great sheet of
water lying beyond. With powerful force
of followers and the spearmen or native sol
diers of Uganda he made this interest
ing march and encamped his army
on the shores of the Albert Nj
yanza At this stage of his journey
Stanley pays II graceful compliment to "a
royal princess of England by naming the
deep inlet or gulf on which he had rested
after the Princess Beatrice During his re-
turn to King Mtesas capital, over the rocky
and forest-clad divide he took care to ex-
plore the country thoroughly, scaling the
rugged sides of Gambaragara and noting the
presence of the strange pale-faced tribe that
inhabited It's lofty ridges and uplands.