Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1878-03-08

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Joe Ebbefbing sansWers fof BsfEy's
knowledgs &c the Esquimanx languags.
DarEy wss wifh captsin poises. wko. N
1871 obtained sinsilsr srelics from fhs
same tribe in Repalses Bay. Asit was
net Eppposed tkep that The expedition
could haze zone sn that nertheastesly
diFecfion. net mach asteniion wss paid
20 the nrst discovery. This isfsFsns-
ton IL Of . very inieFextiag character.
There il of course The diGieulty When
last beard IRON the psrties Hnder Cap
fam Cruxier we're Foing sonth in tie
direction Of the Great fish River. I'D
the question srises Why they should sf-
terwards chaage their coarse and Gp in
| = nnr<hea<fe11Y direcfion. SkiIi. there
i the probabiIsiy thsf they o. spme Of
them. may have done %. They knew
that there was n large depot Of provis-
iops' at Victory Hafbors On the south-
eastern. shore Of Beoshis Felex, where
Sir John Ross .abandoned his vessel the
Victoria. in 1882. and which place. il
may be remarked, 10 in the vicinity Of
the island al Cape Engle6eld. where.
according, 10 Barry q infprmations The
party Of white men died and were buried.
When Sir Leopold cCl,ntock found
the boai with, Tvs skeletons in il. be
was astoni,hed to fnd that the sledge
was directed 10 the northeast. Bat
whasever coniectures, may be induleed
in. Judge DAILY thinks there j. sufficient
information communicated 70 Captain
Potter TO justify q search for the spot
where. the NetcheM say this party Of
white men died, and where they say
their graves still remain and the eairn
they erected. which could be easily
done at comparatively small expense.
Apart from the interest that is felt in
knowing the final fate oil the officers
and crews Of this large expedition,
there IL the expectation that where the
last Of them perished some record will
be found, and which viii be Of sciensi-
&c value If il shoald contain, the ,obssr-
yations Eade. over this part Of the Arc
| tic in. the expedition. The record &c
his journey is the very last thing that
an explorer will part with. Everything
will be sacrificed for its preservation.
and the assurance may be felt that some
memorial containing documents and pa
pers. The precious record Of their labor
and their fate. was erected 10 the vicin-
lily Of the place where the last of them
died, in the hope that at some tune in
the future il would be found BY civil
The great ss event ls,f Of the ,r,, y.ar va. Mr..
Stanleys exploration of the Congo.
Alter describing bis journey at some
length Judge DAILY said: "Fault has
been found with Mr.. Stanley, eseeci-
ally in England. for the warlike con-
tests and destruction Of savage life that
attended his exploration, which IL has
been said will make il difficult for any
future explorer to follow in the same
direction, and which the obiectors at
tribute to a too ready disposition on his
part 70 employ fre-arms, instead oftry-
ing conciliatory measures. In this re-
spect an unfavorable comparison has
been made between his journey across
Central Africa and that Of Lieutenant
rCameron, in whose track any one may
hereafter peacefully follow. But the
conditions ia The two cases were not
the same, and this condemnation Of Mr..
Stanley is, in my judgment, very un-
reasonable. What Stanley encountered
in the ,Fegipps trayersed vas what the
people OF Nyangwa told both Livings-
lone and Cameron they must expect to
find II they attempted TO follow the Lu-
alaba injts course TO The north. and that
il should be So in thesvieirity of the
equator was 10 be expected, indepen-
dent )oi iheir information. For a CEN
sury at least, snd probably long before
Il, Arab slaye traders have harried and
desolated the interior of Central Africa
north and south Of the equator in the
prosecution Of their cruel and infamous
traffic, bot have never been able in their
slave raids To- penetrate the region in
the yieinity oi tbe equator, either from
the north or the south, even with the
advantage oil FIRE arms, having always
been Fesisted D. the Farlike people Who
dweh there. Strange, moreover, a IL
may appeaFs The scanpibal tribes Of AT
1ca, rs we know from the journeys
both of Du Chaillu and SehWeinfuEth.
are highly intelligent, brave and hon-
est, and when Stanley, white man
With body Of followers. entered their
country, the conclusion on their part
was q most natural one that he and his
party were slave traders whose attempt
to get into the eountry waste beFesis-
ted BY esexy means within their pow
er. He was therefore attacked in the
beginning. and continued 70 he attacked