Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-11-02
sTANLEY's LATEST WORK.
What He Has Done Among tho Savagc'
... OF Africa.

sTANLEY's LATEST WORK.
What He Has Done Among tho Savage,
...... OF Africa.
Edward King inthe Boston Journal.
Mr.. Stanley arrived in Paris much
improved in health after his journey
of nearly forty days from St. Paul dc
Loando, and he leaves this afternoon
for Brussels, where he will make a re.
port upon his mission and labors in
Africa during the last three years and
u half to the secretary general of the
international African colonization as
sociation. This body was formed at
the instance OF the enterprising king OF
the Belgians shortly after the close OF
the Paris exhibition 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 Ozark
Continent" where settlements were
most available and likely to bring forth
good fruit for civilization. After due
reflection Stanley concluded to accept
the kind offer, which was cmincully
llattering in its character, and he un-
derstood from the first, as every one
else connected with the association un-
dcrstood, that the object Of the work
was not so much immediate CONNER
cial gain as the civilizing and cduca-
ton OF the savage and scmi-savagc pop
ulations. The company did not raise
the flag of any particular nation, but
adopted banner of its own, under
which all of Mr. Stanlcy's marches
have been made, and all his efforts UNI
dcrtaken. In connection with the cen
tral and parent society ut Brussels, it
was arranged that national commit
tees should be at liberty TO do as much
as they saw fit, and contributions Of
money and equipment were made TO
the main expedition by various geo
graphical and learned societies. Mr..
Stanley had told the association that
the Congo river was the main avenue
of entrance to Central Africa, and that
so soon as the difficulty of getting
around the great cataractS were sur
rounded, and steamers were set ailoat
on the upper Congo, the result for both
civilization and commerce would be
colossal. The young explorer there
fore 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 COM
Portable dwellings, kept stocked with
provisions and clothes from Europe.
Guns and ammunition do not form any
considerable part of the outfit, for Mr.,
Stanlcy's bOast is that any one can
/ 90 anywhere in the country which he
has settled up armed with nothing
more f0rnidablc than Il cane. The
natives look upon him rs Il kind of
dcmigod, or they have discovered that
civilization, to which they at first felt Il
dislike, means getting more food TO eat
and getting it easier than in the old
times. Last evening the explorer gave
me picturesque description Of ban
quet which he gave some time ago to
the 800 blacks and twenty-eight whites,
directly and indirectly interested in the
colonization scheme. The natives had
never seen such baronial festival be-
fore; Stanley had purposely determined
to give them a Gargantuan spread
which they should remember to the
end of their lives. There were quar-
ters of beef, roasted whole; vast wood
en- tubs filled with rice; butter and
cheese from Europe; milk from the
COWS, which are kept at each Of the
stations; game in stacks, in pyramids,
and fruit in colossal heaps. The men
were amazed, and sat until the order
to begin eating was given, with their
fingers on ;hcir lips, and in a dazcd,
rapturous mood. When they had the
signal to "fall to- those nearest the
precious food plunged madly at ii, but
speedily found the men in the second
rank crawling between their legs on
leaping over their backs. But there
was no quarreing; every one had
enough, and all went away with highly
increased impressions in favor of the
white men
1--WE have done wonders since last
wrote you,n said Mr.. Stanley, 'and
our greatest accomplishment is the
building and roofing of long, hand
some, well-arrangcd two-story house,
The second story is looked upon by the