The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-10-05
Arrival Of Stanley, the Great En-
pIorcr, orr the West Coast.

After months of anxious suspense dur
ing which the gaave.t fears were enter
taineJ for the safety OF the gallant eX-
pl7rer the welcome news has come that
Henry NJ Stanley, the special commits
sioner of the New York Herald and the
London Daily Telegraph, has arrived on
the west coast in Africa, after
A TERRIBLE JoURNEY ACROSS THE con
TISEST,
Along the line of the Lualaba and the
Congo rivers. Stanley lat,,r- axe dated
from Emb ma, Congo river. west coast o
Africa, August 10, and informs us that
he arrived at that point on August $,
from Zanzibar, with only one hundred
and fifteen souls, and in an awful condi-
tion from the long and terrible journey
through the heart of the African conti-
neut. After completing the exploration
Of lake Tangauida and settling definitely
by actual survey the question Of the out
flow Of the lake by what was believed to
be the river Lakuga, but which he has
proved 70 be only @ creek draining into
the lake. except where the waters Of the
great inland sea attain an extraordinary
lead. Stanley and bis followers pushed
across the couuay TO Nyangwe, on the
Lualaba This was the most northerly
point reached by Cameron when he at
tempted to solve the mystery OF the
Congo, and its identity with the main
drainage line Of the Lualaba basin.
Stanley left Nyraugwe on the 10Th Of
November, 1876, and Travelled overland
through Uregga with his party. The
task Of
PENETRATING THE UNENPLORED WLDs
that stretched before him to the west
ward was calculated to impress him with
a SENSE of danger that nothing bat the
stern call of duty and the pr9mp,in.s Of
ambitious resolution could overcome.
lie was about TO plunge into a region
whore he would be as completely cut
f from hope Of succor, If fortune did
not favor him in his Journey, as if be
was wandering on the surface Of another
planet. Alter an arduous march OF
many days, through 4 country filed
with difficulties, and being compelled to
transport on the shoulders of his men
every pound of provisions and other
stores necessary for the transcontinental
Journey, and beside carrying in a similar
manner the sections of the Lady Alice
ploring boat, and the arms and ammu-
nition of the party. Stanley found him
self
BROUGHT TO A STAND
by immense tracts OF dense forests,
through which all attempts at progress
were futile. Finding that be could not
advance along the lines he had first
intended to follow, Stanley crossed the
Lualaba and continued his journey along
the left bank of the river, passing through
the district known as northeast Ukusa.
On this route he endeayored to find an
outlet westward, but the Jungle was so
dense and the fatigue of the march so
harrassing that it seemed impossible for
him to succeed in passing the tremen
dous barrier of the forest. To add to the
horrors of his position in these central
African wilds, Stanley found himself
opposed at every step by the hostile
canuibal natives, who would not 5e paci-
fed, but whom he, after terrible struggles,
finally repulsed. He and his party took
to canoes, and pushed down the river,
replying with rifles to showers of arrows.
In the midst of these successive struggles
Stanley's journey on the river was inter
rupted by
A SERIES OF GREAT CATARACTS,
not far apart from each other, and just
north and south OF the equator. To pass
these obstacles he had to cut his way
through over thirteen miles of dense
forest, and drag his eighteen canoes and
the exploring boat, Lady Alice, over
land. This alarming labor entailed the
most exhausting efforts, and they had
frequently to abandon the ak and drag
ropes for their rifles, to defend themselves
against the continued assaults of the hos
tile natives. After passing the cataracts,
Stanley aud his party had a long breath
ing pause from the toll of dragging their
boats through the forest. They were
also comparatively secure from attack
and took measures TO recruit their ex-
hausted strength, before encountering