Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1877-12-01
Stanley on Ills Latest ENnloIts.

Stanley ON Ills Latest Exploits.
The journey over the hitherto I'M
known half OF Africa now being finished,
the difficulties and tcrrors, wars after
wars, troubles after troubles, toll upon
toll, the dismay and despair being ended,
a not he 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.
fculties rs we could show. Our losses
nevertheless, have not been so great
comparatively. Our journeys length
from Nyanwe is nearly 1900 miles; our
loses 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 $50, 900 square miles, Its
source is in that high plateau south of
Lake ~Tanganyika, in a country called
Bisa, or Ubissh by the Arabs. The
principal tributary feeding Bemba lake
is the Chambezi, a broad, deep river,
whose extreme sources must be placed
about longitude 81 deg. east. Bemba
lake, called BangweOlo by Livingstone,
its discoverer, is a 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, n body of water occupying IN
area OF about 800 square miles. Fall.
ing from Mwern, ii receives the name
OF Lualaba from the natives OF Rua.
In northern Rua it receives an impor.
tant afluent called the Kamalondo.
Flowing in a direction north by west.
it sweeps, with a breadth of about coo
yards, by Nyangwe Manyema, in latitude
26' l5' l5N south, longitude 26' 3 east
and has an altitude of about l,4jO feet
above the ocean. Livingstone, having
lost two weeks in his dates, appears, ac
cording to Sanford's map Of 1874, to havt
placed Nyangwe in latitude 10 i south
longitude PIP l6/ east, but this wild,
difference may be due to the carelessnes
of the draughtsman, Those who feel in
terested in it should compare il with tn,
latest map issued by Sanford, or the MAJ
published with the travellers last Jour
mails. The distance the Congo ba
flowed from its extreme source to easter
Bisa to Nyangwe Manyema is abou
1000 miles. X
About 8 O'Clock something dark an,
long was recognized in the midst Of tn
fierce waves Of Massassa falls, as the
were tumbling into the basin Of BolC
bolo. 1t was n canoe capsized, an
cIipging to it were several men. | in
stantly dispatched two chiefs and tie.
men to take position near the bend, +
which | supposed the current that force,
its way through the basin would tax
the wreck. Meanwhile | watched tn
men as they foated through Bolo.bol
basin. | saw them struggling to RICH
her; ! saw them raise themselves o
the keel, and padding with their hand
tor dear life, because below them 4 shor
half mile roared the Zinga cataract
Finally, as they approached the land
saw them leap into the river and swir
ashore, and presently their canoe, whic
they but a moment before abandoned
swept by me with the speed of an AFRO,
over the Iinga cataract into the whit
waves below, into the depths of whirl
pool after whirlpool, and finally away on
!, of sight.
Bad news travels fast. Messenger
breathless with haste and livid with tie
ror, announced that there were eleye
men who had embarked in that cano,
eight of whom were saved three we,
drowned, n OF whom was my BRAY,
5 honest, kindly-naturcd Frank Franc
POCoCk, my faithful Companion an
g friend But" | asked the coxswai
Ulcin, sternly, how came Frank in tn,
canoe? What business had he, a lar
man, in the rescue canoe 2"
"Ah! MASTER" said he, Eve could n,
r help it. He would not wait. He sal
since the conoe ia going to camp | wi
90. am hungry and cannot wait al
longer. | cannot walk, and | don't wal
any body to carry me, that the nativ
S may all laugh at me. No; | will
t with YOU and without listening
Manwa Sera, the captain, he took h
seat and told us to cast off, lira,
1 from Letters in the Mem JoyE Rc,,M