The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-12-27
STANLEY.
ms Recent work inr Africa,

African International Society, was
slowly working his way up the Congo.
building commercial stations ON the
right or north bank, Signor De Brazza,
an italian by. birth, but q Frenehman
by adoption, pushed across the country
north of ths riveE from the coast. and.
arriving first at Stanley Pool, procured
from the native Chief, Makoko. the.
cession to France of the territory on
the north side Of the pool The south
side still remained free, and on it STAN
ley built his fourth station. called Leo
poldvile, and in his further progress
kept on the same side Of the river. 1t
is doul ltful whether De Brazza,s treaty
will be recognizeG by France, though
there Is popular clamor in its behalf, If
it is accepted, it cannot control the nav
igation Of the pool, which is an expan-
sion of the river into the lake. The ma
tives themselves regard it of little con-
sequence, for they have driven of Pere
Augouard, a French priest, claiming
that their arrangement was with De
Brazza alone. The great river will re-
main free to 1.-The navigation Of the
world. ,zerT avsr ~r.,f Aease.,l
The organization under which Stan
lev has been working, and which has for
its head the King Of Belgium. is philan-
thropic in its designs. Its purpose is to
carry civilization into the far interior of
Africa and develop Legitimate com
merce- 1t aims to be self-supporting,
and to this end permanent stations have
been built at Vivi, just below the -Yel-
lala Falls, as the cataract nearest the
mouth of the river is called; at Isangila,
the second cataract, where the boat
Lady Alice was left on Stanley s trans
neaN nf
seventy-four miles fartherup, where the
river again becomes impassable; at
Leopold8 lie, on the south side of the
+ pool; and at .Malebu. whence the river
i is nayigable for nine hundred miles
above. There are now seven Belgian
steamers on the river-four on the lower
part of the stream, and three above
Stanley Pool Already trade has been
greatly developed When Viva was es-
tablished, in 1879, there were no COM
mercial houses for fifteen miles around.
Now there is station-Dutch, English.
French, Belgian, or Portuguese-eyery
mile.
Stanley has returned to Europe by the
advice Of his physicians. who declare
that removal from Africa is necessary
to save his life He has accomplished
what he was sent to perform, and has
done q wonderful work. as is fully
shown in very detailed account in the
New York Herald, the paper which sent
him on his first expedition
He was sent back to Africa in 1879
by King Leopold, of Belgium He took
with him some whites and large num-
Der of the Zanzibar men who had
crossed the continent with him. On ar
irving on the coast he found the white
H., Al
with them opposed to a possible inva-
sion Of the monopoly they enjoyed.
Having determined to plant his first sta
tion at Vivi. the only site obi airable for
a station was hill three hundred and
fifty feet high, about seven hundred feet
in length, and two hundred wide-just
room enough to make broad street
with a line of houses on either side, and
headquarters at the end. The task was
a terrible one; the tools were wretched;
s the men were new to the work; the
sun shone on the road-party from the
west. and the reflection from the face of
the hill exhausted the half baked men.
The Europeans were quickly exhausted,
and the natives suffered greatly. The
crown of the hill was soft rock. which
was excavated to depth of about two
feet Two thousand tons of rich earth
were carried to the summit, and gar
den, now full of fiourishing fruit trees,
was constructed. From Vivi to Isan-
gila the mountains were steep and ra-
vines and torrents very frequent We
quote Stanley own account:
Finally at one place large mount
ain seemed to bar all further progress.
1t presented an almost vertical fracture
on one side. though the ascent from this
II Te
mountain toppled over, as it were; it
was about ten miles in length, and at
the extreme corner of it was river to
which it sloped rapidly down to the
furious cataract, presenting face of
9barel rock. Across this corner we had
to cut our way, making road of fifteen
feet wide, since the descent of the other
slope would have been q matter of sheer
impossibihty. In several places we had
to make rude bridges sufficiently strong
to bear six tons rolling over them.
Farther on the mountains were at times
so steep that it took $50 men to haul
one of the wagons from the valley to
the top. We had no animals Moth
ing but men would have done. for if we
had had animals we should have had
to carry large additional stores of food,
and this extra burden would have
ICnQCEc4 OuI DIO2ItSS Slln UuOI0
Gus and difficult ~
Nhile making this road we pas ed
through a wilderness fifty miles long,
with scarcely q village worthy of the
name. has ing to supply the men all the
Europe. The weight and labor OF ou
transport may be imagined when say
that we had no less than 2, 225 loads OF
mack aces each weiUhinc from Sixtv.
five to seventy pounds. We had sever
large store-tents; and besides this we
had seven enormous wagons. built on
purpose in Belgium for US, whereon tC
transport the two steamers and two
large steel boats, with boilers and ma
ehinery, which we had brought with Us
to be put together on the Upper-Congo
To do all the hauling we had only sixty
eight Zanzibaris and few west-coas
natives, so that our working mum er,
ranged from ninety to 14o. This mum
Der was never long the same, for the
natives would only work when they
pleased. and only for a day o.
two at a time, and nothing coulC
induce them 80 assist us regularly
3 We had to go over the ground n,
less than thirty-three times, and ou
rate of progress. calculating the mum
Der of days we travelled, was only
quarter of mile per day. But Their
were places where it took US twenty-si,
days TO pass Just four hundred Yards
all the available strength being put to
single wagon al time / never coul'
make the people in Europe understand