The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-08-09

the first instalment, in full, of the series o.
letters from Mr.. Stanley, in Central Africa,
of which, in a special despatch from Lon
| don, we published brief summary some
ten days ago. That was q mere outline,
covering a period of nearly year, OF the
perilous adventures by land and water, the
marvellous escapes and interesting and
wonderful discoveries of this Anglo-Amer-
lean expedition, under its persevering chief,
of which we give to-day portion OF the
completed panorama-and vivid and life
like picture 1t is-of new lands revealed to
the civilized world, Of hospitable and gen.
erous native kings, of treacherous and war
like tribes, Of tropical islands rich in their
natural productions beyond description, Of
suow-clad mountains and burning plains,
of strange pale faces and many natural Curl
osities, of festivals and battles, and
OF moving accidents by food and field.
more fascinating than the brightest crea-
tons of the poet or the boldest flights of the
Imagination.
In this narrative of Mr.. Stanley's explora-
tions, though modestly presented, his skill,
courage, prudence, sagacity and fertility in
resources in every emergency of doubt and
danger cannot fail to attract the readers at
tention. 1t will next be perceived that on
! the verge of his most important field Of re-
search he would have been checked and
driven back but for the invaluable assistance
of his faithful friend and generous ally, the
intelligent native King, Mtesa, of the rich
and populous country of Uganda To the
timely and liberal support, in men and
means, from this enlightened African barba-
rian we are indebted for the discoveries of
Mr.. Stanley in that most interesting land
under the Equator lying between the great
lakes Victoria and Albert Niyanza. We
sympathize with the devoted explorer in his
disappointments in consequence of the fero-
cious savage tribes which barred his passage
through their domains and thus prevented
the full reconnaissance of that wonderful re-
gion and Of the Lake Albert which he had
contemplated. Nevertheless, as Pacha Cor
don and Professor Gessi, between them, have
explored Lake Albert from end to end, we hope
to be able to present complete map "a few
points only excepted) of both those great
lakes, and Of the watersheds between them
and around them, and of the enormous
drainage which, from that vast and rainy
equatorial basin, gives through those great
lakes his ample and unfailing volume to the
grand old Nile.
From Mr.. SANKEY'S researches on that
great divide, as we may call it, lying be-
tween the lakes Albert and Victoria, it is
itself country of many beautiful lakes and
of lofty mountains, fertile valleys and plains,
inhabited by warlike tribes Of savages,
through whose dominions there is no pas
sage to the intruding stranger except at the
head of powerful army. In the drainage Of
this divide tributary to the Victoria Lake,
and in the Kagera River, which is chain of
lakes Mr.. Stanley thinks he has discovered
the true parent ofthe Victoria Nile, from the
comparatively heavy volume of the stream.
We adhere, however, to his first opIn IN,
that in the Shineeyu. which, rising below
the fourth degree of south latitude after o
course of over four hundred miles north
ward, is discharged into the Victoria Lake,
we have the real head stream of the Nile
The most interesting to the ethnologist of
all the discoveries of Mr. Stanley is the pale
faced race of evidently aboriginal Africans,
inhabiting the temperate climate of the
elevated slopes of the great mountain Gam
baragara Our trustworthy explorer says
that he has seen some half dozen of these
people; that they are handsome race, and
some of the women are singularly beautiful;
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brown in color; that they have regular fea-
lures and thin lips; but that 'their noses
though well shaped. are thick at the point"
After the tribe of dwarfs of the west coast of
Equatorial Africa, unearthed by Du Chaillu,
and the strange races discovered by Schwein-
el-Ghazal, one of the great feeders of the
Nile, we can entertain no doubt Of the
existence of this race of pale-faced Africans
gradually bleached from their moist
and temperate climate of Mount Gam
baragara, through many generations,
to their present light compilations. In a
word, there are as many different types of
the African family in Africa as there are of
the so-called Caucasian race in Europe
Usongoro, country bordering on Lake
Albert. Mr. Stanley describes from report
las very land of wonders" with its salt
lakes, its hills of rock SALT its plains en-
crusted with salt and alkal, its large dogs of
extraordinary ferocity, ''and q race of such
long-legged natives that ordinary mortals re-
gard them with surprise and awe" And
why should we doubt the existence of even
these long-legged Africans, when, near the
south cape of the continent, there is short
legged race of natives, the most repulsive
carcatures Of humanity gifted with the
faculty of speech?
Turning to the geographical results Of