The Russellville Democrat., 1882-11-02
sTANLEY's LATEST WORK
What He Has Done Among the
 Savages of Africa.
ward King in the Boston Journal.


 of nearly forty days from St. Paul de Loando. and he leaves this after noon for Brussels, where he will make report upon his mission and his Iabors in Africa during his last three years and a.half to the secretary general of the International Afri- can colonization association. This
 body was formed at the instance of the enterprising king of the Belgl- ans shortly after the close of the Par. is exhibition in 1874, 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 expert ence and energy into the labor of es- tablishing stations along the tracts on the "Dark Continent" where set dement's were most available and likely to bring forth good fruit for civilization. After due reflection Stanley concluded to accept the kind offer, which was eminently fiattering in it's character, and he understood from the first, as everyone else con nected with the association under stood, that the object of the work was not so much immediate, com mercial gain as the civilizing and education of the savage or semi-sav- age populations. The company did not raise the flag of any particular nation, but adopted q banner of it's own, under which all Mir. Stanley's marches have been made, and all his efforts have been undertaken. In connection with the central and par ent society at Brussels, it was ar ranged 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 geo. graphical and learned societies. Mir. Stanley had told the association that the Congo river was the main avenue of entrance to Central Africa, and that so soon as the difficulties of get ting around the great cataracts were surrounded, and steamers were set afoat on the upper Congo, the re- suits for both civilization and com merce would be colossal. The young explorer therefore left for Africa for the third time in January, 1878, and since that time has been faithfully occupied in building roads around the falls, in organizing stations, each one of which IS solidly fortified, sup piled with rough but comfortable dwellings, kept stocked with provis- ions and clothes from Europe. Guns and ammunition do not form any con siderable part of the outfit, for Mir. Stanley's boast IS that one can go anywhere in the country which he has settled up armed with nothing more formidable than cane. The natives look upon him as kind of demigod, for they have discovered that civilization, to which they at first felt such 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 a banquet which he gave some time ago to the 800 blacks and twenty eight whites, directly and indirectly interested in the col onization scheme. The natives had never seen such baronial festival before: Stanley had purposely de- termined to give them a gargantuan. spread which they should remem- Der to the end of their lives. There were quarters of beef, roasted whole vast wooden 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 their lips, and in a dazed, 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 between their legs or leap ing over their backs. There was no quarreling; every one had enough, and all went away with highly in creased impressions in favor of the white men.
 eve have done wonders since last wrote you," said Mir. Stanley, "and our greatest accomplishment is the building and roofing of long, we'll arranged two story house. The second story is looked upon by the primitive populations in the nelghboring villages as some thing mysterious and magical-al- most as proof of divinity. I have been living in tent for about two years and have found 1t usually very comfortable, but we wish to get solid | put up as rapidly as possi ble. We'll" he added with q [ sigh, "the road is built, and is as nearly perfect as such thing in such new country can be. The stations are established, and no one of them is in the slightest danger of being assailed. I have done my part to the best of my ability and my conscience is clean and now I turn to the association and say to it, "What will you do next?"