Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-09-19

Henry Stanley, the correspondent tina
Bennett sent to find DR.. Livingstone year
ago, not only discovered that great explor
err, but has found brilliant succession t.
him in the field of geographical eXplora
ton. The great lakes of South Contra
Africa were the scenes of Livingstone's
especial triumphs and before Stanley
time the Victoria Nyanza, great lake ~
ing on the equator, some six hundred
miles from the east coast of Africa, togeth
er with the Albert Nyanza lying to the
west were known with their at1luents rs
tho source of the Nile.
In 1874 the Ne,O York Herald and an
English paper furnished Stanley with the
means of further exploration, having Fan
zibar, which is off the eastern coast, four
hundred miles south of the equator as its
starting point. Up to last year Stanley
had made more certain the fact that the
true source of the Nile must be one of the
affluents of the Victoria Lake, for his ex-
animation of the before unknown southern
end of the Albert Lake showed no rivers
of any size.
Lake Tangauyika lies to the southwest
of Lake Victoria and has no outlet. 1t is
SIX hundred miles west of Zanzibar and
It's .tngth from north to south is about four
hundred miles. On the east shore of Tan
ganyika is Ujji, the town made so famous
as a sort of headquarters for both Living
stone and Stanley. West of this lake
Livingstone had discovered IL large river
flowing to the north, named the Lualaba
At first it was thought that the Luaaba
might run into Lake Victoria but Lieut.,
Cameron found that at one point 1t waa
lower than the lake. Where it did flow to
was not known.
Stanley who left Zanzibar in November
1874 in August 1876 wrote to the Herald
that he was at once to start for Nyangwe
on the Lualaba, the farthest point to which |
either Livingstone or Cameron had gone
1t now appears that he left Nyangwe to
explore the Lualaba on the 18th of last
November with Il force of three hundred |
and fifty men. He found the natives very
warlke and was in continual fight with
them. His porters from Nyangwe to the
of one hundred and forty were
frightened away and returned hor le. Stan
ley fought his way along, and two degrees
north Of the eq1alor the river turned to
the west, and then to the south west be-
ing here from two to ten miles wide with
many islands.
He was unable to make friends with the
savages except in one instance, where he
found Il friendly village and obtained sup
plies. Leaving this village he was again
attacked by warlike tribe who had mus.
kets obtained from the west coast. This
was the thirty-frst of his thirty-two fights
On the journey. June Sd his English as
'istant was carried over IL fall in the river
and dro Vned. On the 9th of August the
party, then numbering lis reached En-
ooma at the mouth of the Congo, on the
vest coast. He will soon embark with
his men for London.
This journey proves that the Lualaba of
Livingston is the same river that reaches
he west coast four hundred miles south OF
he equator, under the name of the Congo
Smboma is directly west OF Ujij and Fan
libar and about two thousand miles across
he continent in IL direct line from the Int.
er place. The discoveries of the identity
If the Congo and the Lualaba, the tracing
If the course of this great river for thous-
-nds Of miles added TO his former labors
outs Stanley in the front rank of African
explorers.