Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-11-16
Stanley's Latest Work.

MIR. Stanley arrived in Paris much
improved in health after his journey of
nearly forty days from St. Paul de Loan
do, and he leaves this afternoon for
Brussels, where he win make a report
upon his mission and his labors in Africa
during the last three years and half
to the Secretary General of the Interna-
donal African Colonization Association.
This body was formed at the instance of
the enterprising King of the Belgians,
shortly after the close of the Paris Exhi-
bition in 1878; and the first act of the
King after assuming the Presidency of
the society was to send for the young
explorer and to ask him if he would put
his experience and energy into the labor
of establishing stations along the tracts
on the ssDark Continent" where settle
ments were most available and likely to
bring forth good fruit for civilization.
After due reflection Stanley concluded
to accept the kind offer, which was en-
inently flattering ia its character; and
he understood from the first, as every
one else connected with the association
understood, that the object of the work
was not so much immediate commercial
gain as the civilizing and education of
the savage or semi-savage populations.
The company did not raise the flag of
any particular nation, but adopted a
banner of its own, under which all Mr..
SANKEY'S marches have been made, and
all his efforts have been undertaken In
connection with the central and parent
society at Brussels, it was arranged that
national committees should do as much
IS they saw fit. and contributions in
money and equipment were made to the
main expedition by various geographical
and Learned societies. Mr. Stanley had
told the association that the Congo Riv-
er was the main avenue of entrance to
Central Africa, and that, so soon as the
difficulties of getting around the great
cataracts were surmounted and steamers
were set af1oat on the Upper Congo, the
results for both civilization and COM
MERGE would be colossal.
The young explorer therefore left for
Africa, for the third time, in January,
1873, and since that time has been
faithfully occupied in building roads
around the falls, in organizing stations,
: each one of which is solidly fortified,
Supplied with rough but comfortable
dwellings,, and kept stocked with pro-
visions and clothes from Europe. Guns
800 3IuuluuftiOii w HOT 10TH duN COu-
siderable part of the OUTFIT, for Mr..
StanIey's boast is that one can go any
where i'm the country which he has set
lied up armed with nothing more for
nidable than 3 cane, The natives look
upon him as q kind of demigod; for they
have. discovered that civilization, to
which they at first felt such dislike,
means getting more food to eat, and
eettiug It easier than in the old times.
Last evening the explorer gave me a
picturesque description of banquet
which he gave some time ago to the 500
blacks and twenty-eight whites directly
and indirectly interested in the colonial
ton scheme. The natives had never
seen such q baronial festival before !;
Stanley had purposely determined to
rive them q Gargantuan spread which
fhey should remember to the end of
their lives. There were quarters OF beef
roasted whole, vast wooden tubs filled
vith rice butter and cheese from Eu-
r,ue: milk from the cows, which are
TENT Mt each of the stations; game In
stacks and pyramids; and fruit in CO.
iossal heaps. The men were amazed,
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