Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-01-02
STANLEY'S STORY.
The Explorers Lectures at Capetown on
HIS Great journey.

t The Explorers Lectures at Capetown
HIS Great Journey.
From the New York Herald.
Henry NJ. Stanley delivered lectu
at Cape Town, in the Commercial E.
change, on the I'd day of Novembe
which was attended by all the notabl,
OF the place, who constituted, with til
citizens of Cape Town, one of the large.
audiences ever assembled in the colon,
Stanley commenced his lecture by tel
derlng his warmest thanks to Lady Frer,
wife of Sir Bartle Frere, the governor G
the colony, for assisting his travel-wor
people. He said that three times did he
husband, when in England, defend hir
against the adverse criticisms that wer
launched against MIN in that countr,
by those who could not realize the natur
of the undertaking in which he was en-
gagged. and the risks and hardships tha
attended it at every step.
he then spoke of the white native.
whom he had found dwelling in the
elevated regions between Lakes Victoria
and Albert, around the summit of Noun,
Gambaragura, and who evidently be.
longed to distinct race from those who
inhabited the plains and lake shores. He
had also discovered people who con-
structed large underground dwellings,
in each of which as many as 300 persons
were found living. In the effort to ex-
plore the problem of the outlet of Tan
ganyika, he met many chiefs on the Lu-
kuya river who declared that the white
men had caused the country to be sub
merged with water and who resolutely
refused to permit him to proceed on his
journey to Nyangwe. At the latter
place the natives succeeded in persuading
Dr. Livingstone to return from his at
tempted journey down the Lualaba, and
prevented Cameron from travelling
northward along the route since traversed
by himself and party. They pictured the
natives 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
statements of the natives, "the Congo
dashed itself against the mountains until
no larger than brook. The dense and
forests were filed with
profound and eternal gloom, through
which the sun was never visible. HOr-
'ible snakes of enormous size hung from
he trees and were invisible in the dark
less. Ants and other insects bit the
raveler's flesh with fiery venom like
water. Leopards and other
'easts OF prey swarmed in the forests,
md made the darkness hideous by their
lismal bowlings, and indescribable
creams. Droves of wild elephants
rashed through the forest. Genii haunt
d the darkness. Dwarfs thirty inches
n height showered flights of poisoned
rrows like quills at all intruders."
'uch were the stories told at Nyangwe.
After considerable delay, Stanley
ontinued to state, he hired an Arab
hief, with 100 men, for six months, to
ssist him in cutting his way through
he cannibaf lands. He then gave a
raphic description of his desperate bat
les with the cannibals; the passing of
tx great cataracts in twenty-six days;
is journey during months, in which he
assed fifty-seven cataracts and hauled
is canoes over mountains 1000 feet in
eight; and how he lost during his whole
ourney of $500 miles three white men (
nd $50 natives, finally arriving ut the I
lace where Capt. Luckey abandoned
he exploration of the Congo River from
ne west coast in 1916. Luckey had lost
Europeans and eighteen ma
yes in three months.
Stanley then described to the audience ]
le touching scenes that attended the |
rival on the Vest Coast with his fam '
he'd and travel-worn followers. He and 8
is men were most Hospitality received t
mboma and other coast settlements. G
Id his whole following received gor- 7
.ous clothes as reward for their q
lelity and endurance. b
The simple natives of Central Africa t
ere amazed at the appearance of the
and wonderingly looked for b
le paddles similar to those with which v
eir own river craft are propelled.
hey collected in groups and chanted I
ngs of praise to the sailors of the great
re-canoes, whom they regarded as being
ldowed with supernatural powers and
orthy of the highest veneration. RI
During the course of his lecture Stan i,
US vivid descriptions of his adventures
ere received with thunderous and con- o
nuous applause. He said the worst g
aces to explore were the cannibal re.
ons of the Congo, also the region near
anzibar, between Moinbassa and Lake h
iyanza. One thousand warriors at
asst were required for success. Ordi- Il
ary expeditions were impossible. The
omebi country was also dangerous and Fl
fficult to penetrate, as was that be- Ii
veen the northern end of Lake Tan 81
anyika and the southern end of Albert f
iyanza. The district between St. Paul t
: Loanda and Ambries, only 60 miles Il
ide and under the Portuguese flag, was
ct unexplored, although occupied for S
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