The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-11-29

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Stanley on His --latest Exploits.
The journey over the hitherto nm
known half OF Africa new being finished
the difficulties and terroFs. wars after
ware, troubles after troubles. toll uDOn
toll, the dismsy and despair being ended.
u can not be wondered that we breathe q
litie 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 list of diff
ncultles IS we could show. Our losses
nevertheless, have not been 30 great
comparatively. Our journeys length
from Nyanwe is nearly 1 800 miles; our
losses IN men are ODe European and
thlTty-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. It's
source is in that high plateau south of
Lake Tanganyika, in a country called
Bisa, or Ubisah 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 large body of shallow
water, about s, 400 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 asupder, 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 300 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 afhuent called the Kamalondo.
Flowing IN a direction north by west.
it sweeps, with breadth of about l COO
yards, by Nyangwe Manyema, in latitude
260 10 45N south, longitude go 81 east.
and has an altitude of about 1 ,45O feet
above the ocean. Livingstone, having
lost TWO weeks in his daJes, appears, ac-
cordIng to SaDfords map of 1874, to have
placed Nyangwe in latitude 10 i south,
longitude 240 16/ east, but this wide
difference may be due to the carelessness
OF the draughtsman. Those who feel in.
terested IN 1t should compare it with the
latest map issued by Sanford, or the man
published with the travellers last iour.
mails. The distance the CONGO has
Moved from Its extreme source to eastern
Bisa to Nyangwe Manyema is about
200 miles.
About O'Clock something dark and
long was recognized in the midst of the
fierce waves of Massassa falls. as tbev
were tumbing into the basin of Bol0-
bolo. It was canoe capsized. and
cl1pgIng to it were several men. I in
stantly dispatched two chiefs and ten
men to take position near the bend. Ia
which supposed the current that forced
Its way through the basin would take
the wreck. Meanwhile / watched the
men as they hOated through Bolo-bolo
basin, l saw them struggling to right
her; / saw them raise themselves on
the keel, and padding with their hands
for dear life, because below them a short
half mile rOared the Etnga cataract
Finally, as they approached the land |
saw them leap into the river and swim
ashore, and presently their canoe, which
they but q moment before Abandoned
swept by me with the speed of an arrow
oyer the Zing8 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 clever
men who had embarked in that canoe
eight Of whom were saved three wcT,
drowned, one of whom was my brave
honest, kindly -natured Frank! Franci,
POcock, my faithful companion AND
, friend But" / asked the coxswaIr
Ulcin, sterniy, how came Frank in thai
canoe What business had he. a lame
man, in the rescue canoe?
" All master" said he, we could moi
help 1t. He would not wait. He said
since the conoe is going to camp I viii
go. l. am hungry and eanu0t wait any
longer: cannot walk, and 1 don't want
anybody TO carry me, that the natives
may all laugh at me. No; will or
with you, and without listening K
Manws Sera, the captain, he took hi
seat and told US to cast off, Extract