The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1882-11-23
STANLEY'S LATEST WORK.
What He Has Done Among the Saw.
ages Of Africa.
ard King in the Boston Journa,

Edward King in the Boston Journal.
Mr.. Stanley arrived in Paris much i'm
proved in health after his journey of
nearly jorty days from st. Paul de Loan
do, and he leaves this afternoon for
Brussels, where he will 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-
tional African Colonization Association.
This body was formed at the instance
of the enterprising king Of the
Belgians shortly after the close
of the Paris Exhibition in
in 1878, and the FIRST act ofthe king, after
assuming the presidency of the society,
was to send for the young explorer and
to ask him fine would put his experience
and energy into the labor of establishing
stations along the tracts on the Ozark
Continent" where settlement were
most available and likely to bring forth
good fruit for civilization. After due re-
Election Stanley concluded to accent the
kind offer, which was eminently fatter.
ing in its character, and he understood
from the first, as every one else con-
nected with the association understood,
that the object of the work was not so
much immediate commercial gain as
the civllizing and education of
the savage or semi-savage popu-
lations. The company did not raise the
flag of any particular nation. but adopted
banner Of it's own, under which ali Mr..
Stanley's marches have been undertaken.
In connection with the central and par
ent society at Brussels, it was arranged
that national committees should be at
liberty to do as much as they saw fit, and
contributions in money and equipment
were made to the main expedition by
various geographical and learned socie-
ties. Mr.. Stanley had told the associa-
ton that the Congo river was the main
avenue of entrance to Central Africa,
and that SO soon as the difficulty of gett-
ing around the great cataracts were sur
rounded, and steamers were set af1oat
on the upper Congo, the result for both
civilization and commerce would be
colossal.
The young explorer therefore left for
Africa for the third time in January, 1878,
and since that TIM he has been faith
fully occupied in building roads around
the falls, in organizing stations, each one
OF which issol.dly fortified supplied with
rough but comfortable dwellings, kept
stocked with provisions and clothes from
Europe. Guns aud ammunition do not
form any considerable part of the outfit,
for Mr.. SANKEY'S boast is that he can go
anywhere in the country which he has
settled up, armed with nothing more for
midable than cane. The natives look
upon him as a sort Of demi-god, for they
have discovered that civilization, to
which they at first felt q dislike, means
getting more food to eat and getting it
easier than in the old times. Last even
ing the explorer gave me picturesque
description of banquet which lie gave
twenty-eight whites directly and indi-
rectly interested in the colonization
scheme. the natives had never seen
such baronial festival before; Stanley
had purposely determined to give them
a Gargantuan spread which they would
remember to the end of their lives
There were quarters of beef roasted
| whole; vast wooden tubs filed with rice {;
butter and cheese from Europe;
| milk from the COWS. which are
kept at each of the stations;
game in stacks and 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
their Ups, ana III OaZeQ, rapturOuS
mood. When they had the signal to 'fall
to-" those nearest the precious food
plunged madly at it, but speedily found
the men in the second rank crawling be-
tween their legs, or leaping over their
backs. But there was no quarreling;
every one had enough, and all went
away with highly increased impressions
of the white men.
eve have done wonders since I last
wrote you," said Mr.. Stanley, land onr
greatest accomplishment is the building
and roofing ola long, handsome, we'll
arranged two-story house. The second
story is looked upon by the primitive
populations in the neighboring villages
as something mysterious and magical,
almost as a PROOF of divinity. I have
been living in q tent for about two
years, and have found it usually very
comfortable, but we want to get sol.
i'd buildings put up as rapidly as pos
sible. Well," be added with sigh,
"the road ie built, and is - nearly
perfect a. such thing in such . new