Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-10-23

OF the men was passing, and she was
discovered
Stanlcy's Book.
The difference between the Munyo
Park period of African travel and STAN
ley's is most strikingly illustrated by a
single incident in the story of the latter
Stanley began his great journey on the
African coast opposite Zanzibar.
Through every kind Of trial and expo
sure and peril he pushed on with his
large company Of about two hundred
and thirty persons, and after travelling
seven hundred and twenty miles in one
hundred and three days, he reached the
southern shore of the Victoria or Nyan-
"a Lake. Upon this vast inland sea,
after short rest for preparation, he
embarks, the first white man to circum-
navigate it. For more than month he
follows the winding shore, surrounding
every danger, and reaches mid-African
empire The fascinated reader feels us
if he had penetrated q new and vast
world of undeveloped humanity, and
the sense of remoteness from familiar
civilization and the happy world we
know is most profound at the very mo-
ment when, in this mid-Afrcan imperi-
al court, this sole white man, 'Stamlee,"
suddenley encounters-M. Linant de
Bellefords coming south from Cairo!
And NJ. De Bellefonds and Mr..
Stanley, one going north from
Zanzibar, and the other south
from Grand Cairo, meet ut point
which, until within very few years.
had eluded all human endeavor of dis
covery, as New Yorker meets q Bos-
tonian on the platform of the station at
Springfield, and mods and passes on.
Nothing in the whole book is u more
impressive assurance that Africa Is now
"opened to trade and travel" that
and one of the most jealousy
cherished secrets of time is at last fully
told.
Another Of the common impressions
that the single African communities
or states are insignlficant-is also dis
turbed by SANKEY'S story. One OF the
striking incidents that he describes is a
war of the Emperor of Uganda, a!
whose court he met the Frenchman.
He is called Mtesa, and was described
by Captain Spoke as wild youth. but,
as Stanley sees him in his maturity, he
is remarkable man for an African
monarch-a man, indeed, whom Mr.
Stanley, in his capacity of Christian
missionary, evidently holds that he CON
verted to the true faith. Having made
{ acquaintance with the emperor, and
finished the circumnavigation of the
lake, which occupied two months OF
constant travel, Stanley returned to tho
, imperial court of Uganda on his way
to the Lake Albert N'yanza. But ht
, found the emperor at war with some
refractory subjects who refused to pa,
tribute, and as it is the custom OF TIT
, country that nobody can be permitted
to pass through upon his travels while
the emperor is at war, Stanley repaired
TO the camp of his illustrious lmperla
friend. Instead of finding few hun
dred men with spears, which Is thu
common idea of mid-African army
9 he found a host of one hundred ant
fftv thousand warriors, and about fifty
IS thousand women, with as many children
= and slaves, so that he estimated thu
It number of persons in Mtesa's camp a
r two hundred and fifty ;housand--a mas
l. which, considering the nature and ex
" tent of the Africans authority, Mr.
G Stanley thinks not disproportioned t
:, the five and quarter millions wit
b which Xerxes invaded Greece. w
IS should trust Mr.. SANKEY'S estimates. Q
n which he gives us the grounds, rath
IS than the traditions of Xerxes. and thu
It immense host at once dlssipates tn
r common idea Of the scanty forces G
& African kings.
e The story of the war which the ira
l. Weller tarried to see Is very amusing
:. The imperial camp of thirty THOUSAND
!, dome-like huts was pitched upon cap
n which was only seven hundred yard
S from an island on which the insurgents
IF only twenty thousand strong, were pos
t. ed. But this enemy was very BRAY
n and used to the water, so that they drov
1t back the imperial forces when thel
Y navy appeared, and were full OF inst
70 lent defiance, which sorely tried tn
a soul of the i'm perial Mtesa, who, wit
lr all his enormous force, could apparen
Il, ly dc nothing against the insursent
Or quick and singing as wasps. The MOI
Ell arch applien to ''Stamlee" for counse
or Stanley, in his capacity of general an
ne shrewd white man, advised him to bun
n stone dixie from the cape to IN
e. island and march his army over. Mites
" was delighted, and forty thousand me
w were instantly at work. But they b