The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-11-01
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Lecture ny Col. G. c. Long in Baltimore
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l." Colonel Charles G. Long lectured in
Baltimore few nights ago, at an en-.
tertainment given for the benefit of
the sufferers by fever in Savannah.
Col. Long is a native of Somerset
county, Md, and was for seven years
in the army of Egypt, and an explorer
Of Equatorial Africa. He was intro.
duced by Gen. Felix Angus, of the
French Benevolent Society. He wore
his order for distinguished services,
conferred by the Khedive, and spoke
at table covered with magnificent
leopard's skin, presented to him by
Mise. one of the native kings in cen
trail Africa. On the fiat which formed
the background OF the stage was hung
a map, on which was traced the route
of the travellers from the lakes on the
equator, which form the source of the
Nile to the mouth Of the river.
The Colonel prefaced his lecture by
a brief sketch of Egypt and its present
Khedlve, and the improvements which
had been inaugurated. and touched up
on the discoveries Of Sir Samuel Baker,
Grant, Spoke, and Mr.. Stanley. In
speaking of the latter he said:
Mr.. Stanley, the Anglo American ex-
plorer of the London Telegraph and
New York Herald. went TO Lake Victo.
ria ten months after I had sailed upon
it's waters. His decentralization of
the lake is creditable to his energy and
perseverance, but his exaggerated pre-
tentions while they have provoked
contempt from the public, have been
APPLY termed, even by friendly press,
vulgar, and in bad taste. In his ardor
for reputation he speaks of an army
of 100, 900 men, and of a population of
millions in Uganda, that have no ex-
istence save in his letters to the Her.
aid. leave you to judge of the quail.
ty OF his conversion of my savage
friend King Mise, to Christianity by
a present of the Ten Commandments.
when my friend Levant, who has since
been mastered by hostile tribe, re-
ports that after Stanley had left Ugan-
da, Mise, in order to show his accu-
racy of aim, leveled his gun at one of
! lilo WI NOO UA1N UlCV l1C1 VI dllO OuO. IL
is not my purpose to discuss his pre-
tended discovery of a white race
destined, perhaps, to take rank among
the discoveries recorded in the tales of
Baron Munchausen.
On the 2lst of March, 1874, the Col
onel took his departure from Cairo for
Soudan, the objective point being Con-
dokoro, the prospective seat OF the
Government which the Khedive de-
sired to establish. The journey to Kar-
thoum consumed twenty days, and
from thence 1880 miles to Gondokoro.
The days of steamboat-journeying were
on the waters of the White Nile,
through vegetation that threatened to
bar the way, and ON each side were
fetid marshes, rank with poisonous
odors, upon whose treacherous surface
wander great troops Of elephants and
wild Buffalo. On the arrival Of the
expedition at Gondokoro, $500 miles
from Cairo, the party separated, the
Chief and the greater part of the men
returning to Cairo, leaving Col. Long
with two soldiers and the servants to
penetrate the wilderness to Victoria
NyanZa. The first 600 miles of the
route must be traversed on horses,
through a bog and jungle so nearly i'm
penetrable that the travellers were
forced at times to cut their way through
step by step. On the Goth of June the
explorers arrived at the palace Of King
M'Tse, of Uganda, and were received
with hospitality, and the worthy pc.
tentate, to show his appreciation of
his guests, caused thirty slaves to be
sacrificed in their honor. After this
horrible welcome, the King extended
the courtesy of all escort round Lake
Victoria, and made numerous presents
to the ''White Prince as the Colonel
was called, and the party took their de.
parture. Shortly after leaving their
hosts they encountered band of hos
tile savages sent by Kaba Rega to in