Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-10-19
Adventures of Col. Long i'm At
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Col. CHARLES C. LONG recently
lectured in Baltimore, at an entertain
ment. given for the benefit of the suf-
fererS by fever in Savannah. Col.
Long is Il native of Somerset County,
Nd, and WAS for seven years in the
army Of Egypt, and an explorer of
equatorial Africa. He was introduced
by Gen. Felix Agnus, of the French
Benevolent Society. He wore his or
der for distinguished services confer
red by tie khediYe, and spoke at Ia
BILE covered with q magnificent leOp-
ards skin, presented to him by NJ Use,
one Of the native Kings in Central At
RIGA. On the flat 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 forming the source of the Nile
to the mouth Of the river. The fol-
lowing is a reporters summary of the
lecture:
The Colonel prefaced his lecture by
a brief sketch of Egypt and it's pres
ent Khedive and the Improvements
which had been inaugurated and
touched upon the discoveries of Sir
Samuel Baker, Grant, Spoke, and Mr..
Stanley. In speaking of the latter, he
said:
''AIr. Stanley, the AngIo-American
explorer, of the London Telegraph and
New y ork Herald, went to Lake Vic
toria ten months after I had sailed
ton of the lake is creditable to his en-
ergy and perseverance, but his eXag-
gerations and pretensions, while they
have provoked contempt from the pub
lie, have been aptly termed, even by a
friendly press, vulgar and in bad taste.
In his ardor for reputation he speaks
of great army Of 100, 900 men, and of
"a population of millions in Uganda,
that have no existence save in his let
tiers to the Herald. I leave you to
judge Of the quality Of his conversion
of my savage friend, King Mise, to
Christianity by a present Of the ten
commandments, when my friend Lee
want, who has since been masSacred
by hostile tribe, reports that after
Stanley had left Uganda, NJ Use, in
order to show his accuracy of aim, lev
.eled his gun at one of his wives and
blew her brains out. 1t is not my pur-
pose to discuss his pretended discovery
of Il white race-destined, perhaps, to
take rank among the discoveries re-
corded in the tales of Baron Mum
,chauSen."
On the 21st 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
Khartoum consumed twenty days, and
from thence 1900 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 We're fet-
id marshes rank with poisonous odors,
upon whose treacherous surface wan
der great troops of elephants and wild
buffaloeS. On the arrival of the eXpe-
petition 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
impenetrable 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 pal
ace of King Mise, of Uganda, and
were received with hospitality, and
the worthy potentate, TO show the APP
probation of his guests, caused thirty
slaves to oe sacrificed in their honor.
After this horrible welcome, the King
extended the courtesy of an escort