Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1879-07-19
SHEPHERDSTOWN JEFFERSON COUNTY, WEST VIRGINIA. SATURDAY, JUL
AFRICA.

DR.. A. Mackay, late Professor in the
Theological Seminary, Scotland, now
residing Isle of Wight, England. We
have heretofore been furnished, and
published, letters from this daring, trust
ing and enterprising young man, and
have commended his course as the most
practical in civilizing and Outstanding
this ignorant and barbarous race of peo
pie. Mr.. Mackey conceived the idea,
and put it into practice, that 10 impress
this human idler with moral selfrespon
sibility you must teach him the arts OF
labor, and as this even makes the brute
creation tractable, so it does the savage
human so he put the African to work
in his own country making roads, there
by developing to him his capacity for
usefulness. MIR. Mackey has been among
those people for several years, and we
feel sure he has done more TO impress
them with their moral and social re-
sponsibility than most of his evangelical
predecessors. Speech can have but
Slight effect in convincing any human
being of naturally so small reasoning
power as the native African Of the e.
ror of his way or his duty. Work will
convince and quiet him as it does our
Indians.
On the evening before reaching Ka-
gei, on the southern shore of the famous
Nyanza, / had arrived at point from
which a first glimpse could be had OF
the noble lake. AS eagerly as ever the
ten thousand Greeks shouted Thalasse !
Thalasse in the immortal Anabasis OF
Xenophon did | gaze on the silvery sea,
and thank God that now | was near the
Nvanza at last. For had / not been
two years and more on the way from
the coast; and now an end to miserable
marching had come, at least for time?
Had not my companions succumbed to
the climate one by one, and even rein
forcements failed, aud now | was here
alone to hold the fort until better days
should dawn?
Wilson is still alone in Uganda, at
least when / last heard from him q
couple of months ago, but l hope to
Join him soon, as l sail this week Cd.
W across the lake to Uganda. Our
store here has been in the hands OF ser
wants, freed slaves and runaway slaves
from Zanzibar, who have plundered
from our stuff all they considered valua
be, and what they have left they have
sadly spoiled. Confusion worse con-
founded was the state found every
thing in. In a huge hut lent us by
Kadunla, the chief of the place, ! found
all that was left of the. valuable proper
ty of the expedition except such arti-
cles as had already been taken to Ugan-
da. Piled in heaps promiscuously lay
boiler shells and books, cowrie shells
and candle moulds, papers and piston.
rods, steam-pipes and stationery, print
ers' types and tent-poles; carbolic acid,
cartridges and ch!oroform; saws and
garden seeds, travelling trunks and toys,
tins Of bacon and bags of clothes, pumps
and plows, portable torges and boiler
fittings; here a cylinder, there its sole
plate; here a crank shaft, there an &c
centric. Despair might well be found
written on my features as | sat down,
after my two years march, to rest and
look around on the terrible medley.
But ten days hard work from dawn to
dark enabled me TO survey the same,
but with much greater satisfaction than
when / first gazed on the scene. The
rain gauge is no more stuffed with lu5-
bish, nor does boiler shell contain
books. The engines for our steamer
stand complete to the last screw, the
boiler is ready 10 be riyetted, tools and
types have separate boxes, and rust and
duff are thrown out Of doors. 1t seems
TO me more than miracle how much
remains entire of the really admirable
outfit which the able directors OF the
G. NJ. S. supplied us with when we left
England 1t reflects the very highest
credit on Lieutenant Smith and those
who travelled with him that, amid the
most trying difficulties of every step of
so long a journey, they were successful
in bringing here so many articles Of
value When it is remembered that
every article had 10 be cut and broken
up into parts at the coast, so that moth
ing should exceed mans load, or 20
lbs, and now | find almost everything
complete, even to its smallest belong
ings. After a tedious transport Of over
100 miles, we may so far consider the
expedition q success, and the blessing
on our efforts to this point an earnest Of
the much more we hope to follow.
Tie Daisy, which was brought in
segments from the coast, but which ar
rived much shattered, was rebuilt by
Mr.. O'Neill, and has already been of
great service on the lake. But her days
are almost done. / find her in sad con
dition-not plank sound. What the
teeth of the hippopotami spared in the
survey of Jordan's Nullah, the rays Of
the sun have split, and the parts shell
tered from them have fallen prey to
another formidable fee-white ants-as
the vessel lay on the beach at Kagei
Day after day l have been patching the
plahks and caulking the decks, sprawl
ing on the ground below the vessel
with hammer and chisel in hand, and
crowds of naked savages eagerly gazing
at the white man mending his big ca
noe. The people OF Kagei are Wasu-
kuma, the largest branch of the great