New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-07-01

tons for adventurous minds. Stanley himself Is on
the Eastern Coast near the Of his first ex-
PLOTS, preparing for expedition the purpose OF
which has not been dIvulged. Belgian party Is IN
the field and its first report came the other day from
Brussels: and now we have by the latest transat-
lantic mails the account given by Portuguese eX-
plorer, to the Royal Geographical Society of Lis
bon of his journey from st. Paul de Loando 20
Transyaal and Natal. The purpose of these recent
efforts, it would seem, is to broaden the area OF
knowledge of South Africa from ocean to ocean,
and fill up the wide gaps on the map between the
narrow strips Of explored territory.
II was with tins end in view that Alexander
Albert de Serpa Plnto,a Young Portuguese traveller,
set out, in March. 1878. from Billie. an interior
trading post belonging to his cOuntrymen, in
BeDguela, on the West Coast. He had lain i'll with
meningitis for weeks at Bih6 and his companions,
Captain Capelo and Lieutenant Sneus, surprising
he would not be able 10 20 any further, left HIM ID
the care Of negro DOCTORS with just enough to
get back to Europe i'm case he should recover. the
black physicians applied eeches all over his body,
which nearly sucked him dry of blood, and then
covered HIM with great quantity of small horns
which they regarded amulets. In spite of this
treatment he got well and learning that his COM
Tadcs had gone to the northeast, he set about or
ganiziug expedition to the southeast. His
most important want was arms and this he supplied
by gathering up sevonty-four disabled Snyder
rifles which Cameron had left in the country, i'm
provsing FORCES and putting them in order, and
manufacturing 10000 cartridges HIS route led
first up the N0urse River, which he found was
nayigable above the last falls. Then he crossed
high able-lands TO the main stream Of the Zambesi,
called by the natives the greatest river IN the
world" In this march he was escorted by an army
of 400 men, furnished by powerful negro king,
whose daughter accompanied the expedition as
Cammander-n-Chief Of the forces The Amazon
princess desired % marry the explorer but romem-
berng that be had n wife in Portugal awaiting his
return, he firmly refused the iiatterug offer.
In this region De Serpa Pinto found a tribe as
white as Europeans, with features resembling
those Of the Ilottcntots. and with hair on their
heads. No previous explorers encountered these
extraordinary people, and the description given OF
them reads like the stories of Baron Munchausen.
In LATITUDE 10 s., longitude 10 e. large forests,
formed exclusively of immense brakes, were
trayer.od Many wild elephants were seen, and
jaguars were unplcasantly abundant Like stan
ley, the Portuguese adyeuturer fought battle with
the natives. On the 9th of September 1873, an
army of negroes made a night attack upon his
camp and were only beaten of after a hard fight
which lasted till daybreak. Exploring the Fam
best and its tributaries he discovered seyenty-twO
falls and rapids on the Liamba the northern
branch of the great river and made careful studies
of the Mosi-Oa-Tunya. the Victoria Falls Of Liv-
ingstone, which he found to have height of $50
metres The intention of De Serpa Pinto 10
traverse the country Of the Matabeles which lies
west of the Transvaa bnt learning Of
the massacre of an English expedition
commanded by Captain Patterson, he turned of
into the Kaahar Desert, the Sahara Of South
Africa. Here he suffered terrible priyatiOus. For
four DAYS he was without food and for seven with
ont water. lie arrived at the LimpOpO River with
only eight men, and after subsisting entirely on
game for several weeks, he finally reached French
missionary station atSesuto,in the Baruyos country.
From there he ourneyed TO Pretoria, the capital Of
Tran>yaal, on the way losing one of his men, who
was killed by lion. Then he trayersed the land of
the Zulus without accident, coming out at Durham
on the coast, where he embarked for Egypt. AZ
Zanzibar he saw the steamer on hoard of which, he
says, Henry Stanley was preparing with much
mystery, an enterprise about which there
were many versions He arrived in
Lisbon on the 9th Of June, bringing
with him the seven survivors of his negro escort,
ana two other comrades OF his travels-a goat and
a parroquet presented TO him by a lady at
IoaudO. These faithful friends went with him
across the continent the bird sometimes riding on
his shoulder ana sometimes hSlR rom Tree 10 'Ice'
and the goat trottng along by his side travelling
dairy that never failed TO supply him with milk,
save fora few days in the desert.
No doubt Senior De scrpa Pinto viii publish a
book by-aud-by as all African travellers do.
Along with the Illustrations Of the maiden General,
the whitehead, bad-headed negroes, the brake
forests and the great salt marshes of the desert,
which it will of course contain, he should not fail
to include portraits Of the plrroquet aud the goat.
They are cert uly entitled to share in the honors
OF their master.