Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-12-23


CONS hev good eloze, but that is beooz |
the niRRers don't hev 20 hev likkef. Tho |
niRRers' wives AID Mrs. Basoom is al |
that kia hev good cloze. Ef the ni2Rers |
went 10 Bascom's Their wives Wo0dent |
hev good cloze either.
There is trubel euuf in the Corners to |
apol the gratest statesman. ! can't see |
the end nv it. PKrBoLEuN Y. NAsBT.
(Uncomfortable.( |
AMoxC TnE CE0CRAPnERs.
With another year much information
about the Congo and the commercial en-
terprises developing there will be acces-
sibie. The whole course of the river,
from its mouth to Stanley Pool, has been
carefully surveyed and mapped. Stan
ley's furthest station now is at the
mouth of the Ikelem6ia river, about
1000 mics UP the river. He has estab-
iished friendly relations with all the
natives. Commerce in Central Africa
line of its most rapid development.
Professor Nordenskjoid has believed,
since he made the northwest passage,
that in August every year vessels from
Europe could pass through the Kara Sea
and reach tine Yenesei river. If this
were so, it would be tact of CONNER
ciai Importance: but the experience of
Lieut.. Hovgaard in the Djimphna and
Of the International polar party in the
Vurna confirms the older belief that it is
not safe to count at any time upon the
navigability of the Kara waters. Lieut..
Hovgaard has given up his trip along
the Siberian coast, and has returned to
Vardo or his way home.
James Stuart, civil engineer in the
employ of the London Missionary So
| ciety, is Building road between Lakes
| Nyassa and TanCinaka. He has COM
| pleted seventy miles of the road, and, rs
he expects to finish it soon, the society
has sent to him a steamboat, built in
sections for transportation overland,
which he will launch on Lake Tangi
naka. The Scottish Missionary Society
| has two steamers on Lake Nyassa.
Goods can now DE taken all the way
! from London to the north end of Lake
Nyassi by steamer, except at the rapids
ia the River Shire, around which they
have to be carried by land.
NJ. De Brazza has reached De Brazza-
vile. This is a small collection of ma
tive huts at the west end of Stanley
Pool. 1t is on the north bank of the
Congo, and SANKEY'S LeopoldvilIe is al
most directly opposite on the south
bank. De Brazza's right to the place
and to tho adjoining territory is now
disputed by the natives. Stanley has
established so many stations and has
succeeded so we'll in his efforts to win
the good will of the natives that il is
doubted whether De Brazza will be able
10 compete with him on even terms in
the work of opening up the country.
The c0lonisss who will leave England
before Christmas to settle in New
Guinea, will be practically the pioneers
in land that is nearly as large rs Eng
land, France and Ireland together.
Next to Australia i: is the largest island
In the world. Its soil il very fertile, it
abounds in fine natural harbors, and
most of the country is healthful. Many
of the natives are cannibals, but they
have been friendly toward the whites, as
far as their fears havs permitted them
to bs. D'Albertis, the Italian explorer.
trustad himself alone among them for
nearly year, and from his reports and
the records of Baccari. another Italian
traveller, Is derived the greater part of
known land. New Guinea is north IF
Australia, from which it 10 separated
BY a strait only eighty miles wide, and
Queensland is still agitatinR the cues
ton Of annexing the island.
Most of the scientific parties that
were stationed year or more ago
around tho world, near the Arctic CIRCLE,
for the purpose of making simultaneous
observations. have returned home. The
Eaelish party from Fort Rae, on Great
| Slovo C.Ako npOho hlu opv,vol - H.
land dav OK two ago. Germany has
relieved her party who were stationed
in Cumberland Sound, Davis Straits.
The Swedish observers in Ice Fiord.
Spitzbergen, have gone home after a
successful winters work. The Austro-
Hungarian observers on Jan Maven.
$50 miles southwest of Spitzbergen, re-
ported upon their return that last win
ter was very mild season there. The
Norwegians have relieved their party at
Bssekoss, in Lapland, and our observers
At Point Barrow have returned home.
Tue Dutch party that went out in the
Varn8, bound for tho mouth of the YEN
esei, never reached their destination.
Nothing has yet been heard from Lieut.,
freely Of. from the Russian stations at
MOller Bay, Novaya Zemlia, and at the
mouth of the Lena River. Scientists
will be greatly interested in reading
and comparing the forthcoming reports
OF the international observers.
The route by which Spoke and Stan
ley reached the north shores of Victoria
Nyanza is about 800 mics long. 1t
start, from Zanzibar. and is at present
the most practicable route to the lake.
For years the Royal Geographical So
ciety of London has desired to open a
route some $50 miles north of Zanzibar,
extending to the Victoria Lake in q
straight line. and shortening the dis
tance about 800 miles. 1t is difficult.
however. to open this route, as the Ma
sails. n great tribe living west of Mount
kilimanjaro. seldom permit strangers
to pass through their country. No
white man has ever crossed their ter
ritory. Last spring the Royal Geo
graphical Society Entrusted to Joseph
Thompson the hazardous enterprise of
trying to reach tho Victoria Lake
through the Nasal country. In June
his party reached the Masais. II
was unfortunate for him that
Doctor Fischer, tue German e1-
plorer, had had a fight with the Masais
q few days before. Thompson's efforts
to establish friendly relations with the
tribe failed, and ne had to retreat,
When last heard from his party had
started. on July 5th. with q trading car
AVIAN 700 strong, and Thompson expect
cd to push through the Masais to the
lake. This young man is conspicu-
Gus figure among the African explorers.
Four years ago, when he was II years
old. he was left by the death Of Keith
johnson at the head of an expedition.
Nothing dauntsd, he pashed on. and
spent over a year exploring tho country
between Lakes Nyassa and Taneamka,
and the west coast of Tanganika. He
Is a scientific traveller, and his labors
were fruitful.
YElA0wsToNE,s HOT SPRINGS.