The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1878-08-29
SOME NTtp BOOKS.



Of mid African exploration which remained UNI
solved two years ago. will gainsay the import
ancc Of the expedition whose conduct and re-
suits are set forth in two sumptuous volumes.
under the tito 7hrOugh the Dark continent. by
llENIN VI. STANLEY iIlarpcrs. Whatever may
be said Of the INSCRIPTIONS. not to say ruth
less, means to which on moro than ono Occa-
sion, tho traveller had recoursc-and words Of
indignant protest have by no means been want
ing-the supcrlatiye interest attaching to his
latest discoveries will be at once conceded. In
tho course OF this journey from tho Indian
Ocean 10 the Atlantic Mr. Stanley did two
Things. either one Of which would suffice to
place him in the front rank Of explorers. and
which, in the most cursory survey Of his per-
formanco, will demand particular attention
One is tho circumnavgat!on Of Lake Victoria
by which geographers are made acquainted
with tho true proportions and contour belong
ing TO the grandest Of equatorial basins. The
second and more signal exploit was the tracing
OF the great Congo water way from the point
whore Cameron left it not many hundred miles
from the iount OF its main feeder. through rc-
gions heretofore untraversed by European feet
and amid hardships and porils whose magni-
tude cannot be questioned to the junction of the
African Amazon with the Western Sea- In or
der TO appreciate the precise scope and purpOrt
Of such feat II s indispensable to mark the
progress which had been made in the cxplora-
ton OF mid-Africa up TO tho outset OF this OK
petition in the autumn Of 1874. II is essential.
in other words. 10 state the conditions Of the
problems which Stanley may claim to have
solved
There IL no doubt that tho credit OF discover
ing Lake Victoria belongs to Spekc. He was
not only the first European who, so far rs we
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