The Osceola times. [volume] (Osceola, Ark.) 1870-current, 1877-12-01
Stanley ON His Latest Exploits.

Stanley ON His Latest Exploits.
The journey over the hitherto un.
known half Of Africa now being finished,
the difficulties and terrors, wars after
wars, troubles after troubles, toll upon
toll, the dismsy and despair being ended,
it can not be wondered that we breathe a
little freer and feel more relief now than
when we were about TO begin the journey.
Our experiences have been very sad and
dreadful, and we have paid dearly for
the temerity and obstinacy with which
we held on. You might call all the
terrible experiences that African travel.
| ers relate In their books, and united they
would scarcely present such a list Of dit
| ficulties IS we could show. Our losses,
nevertheless, have not been 30 great
comparatively. Our journeys length
from Nyanwe is nearly 1890 miles; our
losses in men are one European and
thirty -four Wanguana. Captain Tuckey
lost eighteen Europeans and eleven
colored men in about three months.
Mungo Park lost his own life and the
lives of all his people; and out OF
Pedle's Niger expedition the commander
and all the principle officers lost their
lives, and the expedition was broken up.
The entire area the Congo drains EN-.
braces about 100000 square miles. Its
source is in that high plateau south Of
Lake Tanganyika, in a country called
Bisa, or Ubisah by the Arabs. The
principal tributary feeding Bcmba lake
is the Chambezi, broad, deep river,
whose extreme sources must be placed
about longitude 81 deg. east. Bemba
lake, called Bangweolo by Livingstone,
its discoverer, is large body of shallow
water, about $500 square miles in ex.
tent. 1t is the residuum of an enormous
lake that in very ancient times must
have occupied an area of 100000 square
miles, until by some great CONFUSION the
western maritime mountain chain was
driven asunder, and the Congo began to
roar through the fracture. Issuing from
Bemba lake, the Congo is known under
the name of Luapula, which, after a
course of 200 miles, empties into lake
Mwern, body of water occupying an
area OF about 800 square miles. Fall.
ing from Mwern, it receives the name
of Lualaba from the natives OF Rua.
In northern Rua it receives an impor.
tant aflluent called the Kamalondo.
Flowing in direction north by west,
it sweeps, with breadth of about ,000
yards, by Nyangwe Manyema, in latitude
26o 15> 45N south, longitude 26' 81 east
and has an altitude of about 1850 feet
above the ocean. Livingstone, having
lost two weeks in his dates, appears, &C.
cording to Ssnford's map of 1874, to have
placed Nyangwe in latitude IL l. south,
longitude 2i0 l6' east, but this wide
difference may be due to the carelessness
of the draughtsman. Those who feel in.
terested in it should compare IL with the
latest map issued by Sanford, or the map
tbubhshed with the travellers last jour.
mails. The distance the Congo has
flowed from its extreme source to eastern
Bisa to Nyangwe Manyema is about
900 miles.
About 3 o'clock something dark and
long was recognized in the midst of the
fierce waves of Massassa falls, as they
we've tumbling into the basin of Bolo-
bol0. 1t was canoe capsized, aud
clipging to IL were several men. | in.
stantly dispatched two chiefs and ten
men TO take position near the bend, to
which supposed the current that forced
its way through the basin would take
the wreck. Meanwhile | watched the
men as they foated through Bolo-bolo
basin. / saw them struggling TO right
h.r. I thar, ra..a
the keel, and padding with their hands
tor dear life, because below them short
half mile roared the Zinga cataract.
Finally, as they approached the land |
saw them leap into the river and swim
ashore, and presently their canoe, which
they but moment before abandoned;
swept by me with the speed of an arrow
over the Zinga cataract into the white
waves below, into the depths of whirl-
pool after whirlpool, and finally away out
of sight.
Bad news travels fast. Messengers,
breathless with haste and livid with ter
ror, announced that there were eleven
men who had embarked in that canoe,
eight of whom were saved three were
drowned, one OF whom was m- brave,
honest, kindly.natured Frank Francis
Pocock, my faithful companion and
friend But" | asked the coxswain
Ulcin, sternly, how came Frank in that
canoe? What business had he, lame
man, in the rescue canoe?"
"Ah MASTER" said he, Eve could not
help it. He would not wait. He said,
since the conoe is going to camp will
60. am hungry and canuot wait any
longer. cannot walk, and l don't want
anybody to carry me, that the natives
may all laugh at me. No; will 60
with you, and without listening to
Manwa Sera, the captain, he took his
seat and told us to cast off."-Ertracts
from Letters IN the New York Herald.