The Red Cloud chief., 1878-01-31
STANLEY AT CAPE TOWN..
Report Of the American Expler'
er's speech Before the S0oah
African PhlvOlOlOgical society.

Report Of the American Explor.
er's speech Before the H0osh
African PhlvOlOlogical Society.
In order to establish the proof Of re.
lationship existing between the white
| and black races, Mr.. Stanley instituted
a number Of comparisons between Cen
| trail Africa at present and the HomeriC
| age. After several comparisons in
| which he furnished sirikingly similar
! instances. liz compared the natural
| foibles Of Ccnirrl .Africnn. with tho>~
| Of Europeans to-day. showing that II
| they had their fetish worship and their
superstitiOns, We have our ~spiritualists
and our superstitions, toO He explain
ed why, in his belief. the Congo had
| live times a greater volume than the
Nile, showing how the wind currents
| drove up the masses of vapor TO the
mountain ranges. He believed that
| the ranges of the Congo basin inter-
cepted five times the quantity Of moist
ure intercepted by the ranges Of the
| Nile. He would hove no difficulty in
arranging charts to show the winds
which blow through the equatorial
ranges, and which would teach US in .
great measure why the head waters OF
great rivers were generally found in
that range. He then went on in a con-
versational way, and without reference
to notes, to show his track and its re-
suits through Central Africa. The first
first problem which was solved was
that in respect to Lake Victoria. Liv-
~ingstOne said that there were here
twenty-five lakes, all the natives said
there were, and SO did all the Arab
merchants. Spoke decided from what
he saw and what he heard that the lake
must be about $4,000 miles in extent.
He had nothing to do with the hipothe-
sis of Livingstone. All he had to do
was to screw his boat together and to
arrive at a certainty. After %fifty-seven
days circumnavigating he found that
the lake was $50 miles in length and
$50 miles in breadth, or 1880 miles in
extent. So Spoke was nearer the truth
than Livingstone, who was either him
self deceived or deceived by natives.
Sir Samuel Baker had said that the
Albert Nyanza extended from latitude
50 north, down to 90, south. He re-
membered very well going to Willis
room and seeing q large map, and there
were ladies and gentlemen engaged in
a deep scrutiny of it, some with opera
glasses. QLaughter.l Sir Samuel
Baker made out this lake to be 800
miles in length. He found it to be only
160. He met with extraordinary things
between Lake Albert and Lake NyanZa,
one of which was underground houses.
Arriving on the shores Of Lake Albert
and looking over the edge of the plat
eau, many thousand feet below. was
Lake Victoria. After settling the Lakes
Alexandria, Nyanza and Victoria. and
Albert problems, he went down to Ujiji.
They had by this time covered q dis
lance of 500 geographical miles. Cross
ing down he heard that Lieut.. Cameron
had discovered a river coming out of
Lake T~anganyika, at the rate Of a knot
and a half an hour. The Arabs said
that years ago the river came out of
the lake. The chiefs on the banks of
the lake said that the river did not
always run out from there.
After a careful survey, he came to the
conclusion that there had been no out
let to the Lake Tanganyika, there was
a midday deposit which. with two,
three or five heavy continuous rainy
seasons might be washed away between
Tanganyika and the Lualaba. When
they came to the Nyangwe he asked the
Arabs why the old man Livingstone
and that young nan Cameron had not
explored the country beyond. The
Arabs said that a few years ago the old
man Livingstone wished to 60 into that
country. but he had only eight men
with him. and they would not allow
him to do So. Cameron wished to go.
but his people would not 90 with him.
amp how could he 90 without them. He
Stanley had. however. u large expe-
dition, and he told them that he intend
ed to go. They then tried to dissuade
him by telling him terrible stories of
the people who were said TO be the big
gest men in the world, being armed
with guns and most cruel. The river
was described as going north, north,
north, and without any end to it, and he
was assured that it was impossible to
navigate it, for there were numerous
cataracts, and how could he pass them?
On the 9Th of Nov. 1876, the start was
mode from Nyangwe, and pleasant it
was to glide down the river in canoes.
On the fourth day they found the ma
tives mastering in great forces along
the shores, and he was asked who had
given him permission to come by that
river. He replied that no one had, and
AHar0d nrncnnfc IN n1,thnc bead, nvl
all sorts of brass wires. But the peo-
pie would not have them. and said that
he could not 60 along. Then came a
time of it, a day of peace, then
a day of fighting with cannibal tribes.
Then there was the difficulty of the
c~ataracts. Twenty-six days they had
to work by six cataracts. They had to
cnt their way through the bush, and
drag their canoes V them. In the
days they accomplished thir-
teen geographical miles. They had no
than thirty-three fights, and in adj !
to the men lost in these fihts. he
lost nineteen men by drowning, 1900 |
pounds of ivory, and any quantity of
goods and wire were lost before he ar |
at the spot where Capt. Tuckey |
left off his exploration in 1916. They |
had by this time accomplished $500
miles; his expedition was greatly re-
duced. and the three white men who
with him were dead. All this
district was very pretty, and how was it
that although a steamer could 90 as far
as longitude 20 deg. from st. Paul de
Loando-and st. Paul de Loando had
been in the hands of the Portuguese for
the last 200 years-this river had never