The New York herald., 1877-11-30
The Explorer Lectures at Cape Town
on His Great Journey.
ALARGE AND BRILLIANT AUDIENCE
Summary Of the Wonderful Discoveries Made
Between Zanzibar and EmbOma.
THE TERRORS OF THE FOREST LANDS.
[pY CABLE TO THE HERALD

survivors of his great transafrican journey
has created the utmost excitement in the
colony, and he has been the recipient Of
many fattering attentions from the govern
| ment officials and their families, as we'll as
the merchants and landed proprietors.
The wonderful feat Of crossing Africa and
discovering the true course Of the great
river has impressed everybody with the
highest admiration for his energy and dar-
ing.
STANLEY DELIVERS 4 PUBLIC LECTURE
On November 2 Stanley delivered
lecture at Cape Town, in the Commercial
Exchange, which was attended by all the
notables Of the place, who constituted,
with the citizens Of Cape Town, one of
the largest audiences ever assembled in
the colony. The renowned lecturer was
received with the most enthusiastic cheer
ing, and was visibly affected by the hearty
welcome accorded him at'the Cape.
A BRILLIANT AssEMBLAGE
The Hon. Mr.. Southey. formerly Colonial
Secretary, presided. Among the distin-
guished persons present were Sir Thomas
MacLear, late Royal Astronomer, the Misses
Frere, Commodore Sullivan. and their fam
lilies and friends. Besides these were the
officers Of the royal navy stationed at Cape
Town, some Of whom had accompanied Stan
ley and his party from St. Paul de Loanda.
THE LECTURE.
Stanley commenced his lecture by tender
ing his warmest thanks to Lady Frere, wife
of Sir Bartle Frere, the Governor Of the
colony, for assisting his travel worn people.
He said that three times did her husband,
when in England, defend him against the
adverse criticisms that wore launched
against him in that country by those who
could not realize the nature of the under
taking in which he was engaged and the
risks and hntdships that attended it at
every step.
SUMMARY OF INTERESTING D1scovERIEs.
He then spoke of the white natives whom
he had found dwelling in the elevated re-
gious between lakes Victoria and Albert
around the summit of Mount Gambaragura,
and who evidently belonged to a distinct
race from those who inhabited the plains
and lake shores. He had also discovered
people who constructed large underground
dwellings, in each of which as many as
three hundred persons were found living.
In the effort to explore the problem Of the
outlet Of Tanganyika he met many chiefs on
the Lukuya River who declared that
the white men had caused the country
to be submerged with water, and who
resolutely refused to permit him to pro-
ceed on his journey to Nyangwe. At the
latter place the natives succeeded in per-
suading Dr. Livingstone to return from his
attempted journey down the Lualaba and
prevented Cameron from travelling north
ward along The route since traversed by
himself and party. They pictured the ma
tives of the unexplored region as the
biggest and smallest men in the world.
Gorillas, they said, fill the mighty woods
with the thunder Of their terrible cries day
and night. According to the statements of
the natives ''the Congo dashed itself ag inst
mountains until no larger than a brook.
The dense and interminable forests were
filled with profound and eternal gloom
through which the sun was never visible.
Horrible snakes OF enormous size hung
from the trees and were invisible in the dark
ness. Ants and other insects bit the travel
ler's flesh with a fiery venom like scalding
hot water. Leopards and other beasts of
prey swarmed in the forests and made the
darkness hideous by their dismal howlings
and indescribable screams. Droves of wild
elephants crashed through the forest.
Genii haunted the darkness. Dwarfs
thirty inches in height, that showered
flights of poisoned arrows like quilts at
oil intruders and that the natives ate at one
bite, were thick as ants; they would
kill everybody" Such were the stories
told at Nyangwe.
THE GREAT JOURNEY DOWN THE CONGO
After considerable delay, Stanley con-
tinued to state, he hired an Arab chief,
with 160 men, for six months, to assist him
in cutting his way through the cannibal
lands. He then gave graphic description
of his desperate battles with the cannibals;
the passing Of six great cataracts in twenty
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