Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-01-18
HENRY M. STANLEY.

The name of Henry Nj. Stanley,
the enterprising American traveller,
commissioned by the New York
Hea'uLd and London Daily Telegraph
TO explore the interior of Africa,
was first brought prominently be-
fore the public by his successful
search for the famous DIR. Living
stone, and the timely assistance he
was enabled to render that noble
and suffering missionary and explor-
er. Since his meeting with DR.. Liv-
ingstone this intrepid traveller, be-
tween the dates of November, 1874
and August of last year, has COM
pletely traversed the vast region iy-
ing between the east coast, opposite
Zanzibar, and Doanda, on the west
coast of Africa, including the great
inland waters OF lakes Victoria Ny
ANA and Albert Nyanza, with Lake
Alexandria, and the river Lualaba,
and the mighty Congo.
The exploration of the latter river
was the great object that fired Stan
Iey's ambition. Through indomita-
BILE perseverance, and at the cost of
intense labor and suffering, he has
has accomplished it. Before long a
full account of his wonderful jour
neying, containing valuable addi-
ions to geographical and ethnologi-
c:.l science. will no doubt be pre-
sented to the public in volumes suit
able To the extent and Impo rtance of
the subject. At the moment, bow
ever, we have before us the report
of a lecture delivered by Mr.. Stan
ley soon after his arrival at Cape
Town, which possesses great interest,
coming as it does from his own lips.
In it Mr. Stanley gives short his
tory of his discoveries, and also of
the difficulties and dangers he en-
countered in exploring that most
perilous of all regions, the heart of
Africa. The lecture occupied but
two hours, and was delivered in a
lively conversational style that loses
much from being forced into type.
The few extracts for which we have
space will, however, give our read
ers some idea of Mr.. Stanley's wan
rlerings, as well as the style and
manner of the speaker.
Mr.. Stanley began mis- address by
speaking of the white natives whom
he had found dwelling in the elevat
ed regions between lakes Victoria
and Albert, around the sumlnit of
Mount Gambaragura, and who evil
IDENTIFY belonged to a distinct race
from those who inhabit the plains
and lake shores. He had also dis
covered people who constructed
large underground dwellings, in
each of which as MANY as 800 per-
sons were found living. In the ef-
fort to solve the problem of the out
let of Lake Tanganyika he met many
chiefs, who declared that the white
men had caused the country to be
submerged with water, and who
resolutely refused to permit him to
proceed on his journey to Nyangwe.
At the latter place the natives had
succeeded in persuading DR.. Living
stone to desist from his attempted
journey down the Lualaba, and pre-
vented Cameron from travelling
northward along the route that Stan
lev had determined to follow. They
pictured the inhabitants of the III
explored region az the largest and
smallest men in the world. Gori.las,
they said, filed the mighty woods
day and night with the thunders iof
their terrible cries. According to
the statements of the natives, "the
Congo dashed itself against noun.
tains until no larger than brook
the dense and interminable forest,
were filled with aprofound and etrr
nal gloom, through which the SUI
was never visible; horriblN snakes o.