The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-12-06
STANLEY on MS Latest Exploits.


Stanley on ms Latest Exploits.
Tho journey ovcr the hitherto un.
known half Of Africa now being finished.
the difficulties and t%errors, warn after
wars, troubles after troUhles, toll upon
toll, the dismay and despair being ended,
il can not be wondered that we breathe q
little lrcer and feel more relief now than
when we were about 10 begin thcjourney,
Our experiences have been very rad and
dreadful, and we have paid dearly fr
the tcTerity and obstinacy with which
we ncld 81. You might call all the
tcrdbie experiences that African travel.
ms relate in their books, and united they
would scarcely present such Il list of dii.
f~icnltics ~ we could show. Our losses,
nevertheless, have not been 20 great
comparatively, Our journeys length
from Nyanwc il nearly 1900 miles; our
losses in men arc one European and
Lhirty.four Wanpuana. Captain Tuckey
lost eighteen Europeans and eleven
colorcd men in about three months.
Mungo Park lost his own life and the
lives OF all his people; and out of
Pcdlc'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. It's
source is in that high plateau south of
Lake Tanganyika, in a country called
Fisa, or Ubisah by the Arabs. The
principal tributary feeding Bcmba 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,
it's discovercr, is a large body Of shallow
water, about $500 square miles in cx,
tent. 1t is the residuum ofan enormous
lake that in very ancient times must
have occupied an area Of 100000 squaie
miles, until by some great CONFUSION the
driven asunder, and the Congo began to
roar through the fracture. Issuing from
Ecmba lake, the Congo is known under
the name Of Luapula, which, after n
coursc Of 200 miles, empties into lake
Mwcrn, a body of water occupying an
area OF about $500 square miles. Fall.
ing from Mwern, it receives the name
of Lualaba from the natives OF Rua.
IN northern Rua il receives an impor-
tant anluent called the kamalond0.
Flowing in u direction north by west,
it sweeps, with II breadth of about 1000
yards, by Nyangwe Manyema, in latitude
2G' 10 i5N south, longitude 26' s east,
and has an altitude of about l,I5O feet
above the ocean. Livingstone, having
lost two weeks in his dates, appears, ac-
cording to Sanford's map of 1874, to have
placed Nyangwe in latitude 4 + south,
longitude 20 lG| east, but this wide
difference may be due to tho carelcssneps
of the draughtsman. Those who feel in.
tcrcstcd in it should compare it with the
latest map issued by Sanford, or the map
published with the Travellers last jour
nails. The distance the Congo has
flowed from it's extreme source to eastern
Bi% to Nyangwc Manyema is about
| 900 miles.
About 8 o'clock something dark and
long was recognized in the midst of the
waves Of Massassa falls, as they
were tumbling into the basin of Bolo-
boIO. II was n canoe capsized, and
to it were several men. | in.
dispatched two chiefs and ten
men to take position near the bend, to
which | supposed the current that forced
Is way through the basin would take
he wreck. Meanwhile | watched the
non as they noatcd through bolo
! saw them struggling to right
Ter; | saw them raise themselves on
he keel, and padding with their hands
or dear life, because below them a short
lalf mile roared the Xinga cataract.
'inally, as they approached the land /
NV them leap into the river and swim
and presently their canoe, which
hey but a moment before abandoned;
wcpt by me with the speed of an arrow
yer the Xinga cataract into the white
waves below, into the depths of whirl-
after whirlpool, and finally away out
I sight.
Bad news travels fast. Messengers,
'rcathlcss with haste and livid with ter
or, announced that there were eleven
nen who had embarked in that canoe,
light of whom were saved three were
|rowned, M OF whom was my brave,
kindly-natured Frank Francis
my faithful companion and
But" | asked the coxswain
Ilcin, sternly, how came Frank in that
anoe? What business had he, a lame
nan, in the rescue canoe ?"
"Ah! MASTER" said he, we could not
elp it. lie would not wait. He said,
since the conoe is going to camp | will
o. nm hungry and cannot wait any
Dnger. | cannot walk, and | don't want !
nybody to carry me, that the natives !
nay all laugh at me. No; | will 20
nth you,' and without listening to
Ianwa Sera, the captain, he took his l
eat and told us to cast OFF, Extracts ,
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