The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-03-29

their endeavors to penetrate further. On
arriving, therefore, on July 20, 1881,
from Loanda, on the west coast, at Kim.
bandu. (between 100 and lie south
longitude and 10 and zoe east), they
were hardly sorry to hear that both roads
thence to Mussumba were impossible on
account of some Kiokos having quarreled
with Mwata Yanvo. They at once de.
termined to push on to Makenge, and
thence to the Lualaba or upper Congo.
and for forty-four yards of calico pei
head they found there porters willing to
accompany them as far as the land Of
Friendship. Following the western bank
of Che Chikapa up to its confluence with
the Kassai, and then of the latter river
up to Kikassa, in the Peade country, they
traversed this deep stream about one
thousand feet broad, and there met c
Tusselange chief of the name of King
enge, who insisted upon taking Lieuten.
ant Wissmann home with him as his
guest. Thus, after sixty-two days jour.
ney from Kimbundu, Pogge arrived
alone, on October 80, 1881, at Mukenge't
place of residence, situated under. &c
10m. S. L., rather more than y east
of Greenwich. He describes the Tusse-
LANCE as capital farmers. Everywhere
round he saw broad fields of fine man,
dioca, maize, millet, earth-nuts OF beans.
Tobacco and hemp are both grown fol-
smoking. Their country is a fertile and
well irrigated undulating plain, between
the rivers Kassa and Luiua, covered in Q
large measure by huge forests. in the
midst of which are prairies, which the
inhabitants cultivate, and where they
build their villages. The climate, though
warm, is salubrious. Trade chiefly con.
| sists in female slaves and i~ndia-rubber,
and, humiliating as it may sound to the
ears of your lady readers, the average
price for a full-grown female is a musket,
four pounds7o of gunpowder, or eighteen
yards of calico. In the first days of De-
ceniber, Pogge and Wissmann met again,
and about the middle of the month they
reached the Lake Mukamba. On Jan
uary 5, 1882, they reached the'Lubi, a
fine tributary of the Lubilash, and in the
midst Of a splendid tropical vegetation
they saw villages arise, s'where in clean
and roomy dwellings, with gardens
neatly hedged in, forming streets,
straight as an arrow, the Bassonge live
under the shadow of palm trees and
bananas"
Thus speaks Lieutenant Wissmann in
a letter from Cairo (Which he has just
left for a visit to Cyprus before return
ing to Germany of a country where,
according to the newest map published,
cannibals have hitherto been believed to
reside. On June 90, 1882, under SO
13m. south latitude, the two German
explorers traversed a river $50 feet
broad, the Lubilash, which soon turned
out to be the same as the Saukura, one
denomination beingused on the western
and another on the eastern bank. Along
well-watered grass meadows and through
villages ten miles long, here and there
coming across cannibals, the travellers
reached the Lomani under Sc 424m.
and proceeding again across inundated
districts and swamps and through plains,
the grass of which was SO kne ted to
gether as to be almost impossible, they
came upon the Lulubu on April 2. Nine
days later they descended the river into
the Kasuku and entered the Lubilash on
the 18th. In Nyangwe the Arabs gave
their goods on credit, and on May 8
Pogge started back for Mukenge, while
Wissmann, with some difficulty succeed
ed in making his way to the east coast.
He says: From the Lubi as far as Lake
Tanganvika 1 met with remains of the
Batua, who seem to be the real aborig.
ines. In tiny and RECONSTRUCTED straw
huts. despised by the Baluba tribes, these
small, ill-shapen, attenuated, dirty and
Withholding people live. They do moi
grow anything nor do they keep pigs OF
goats, but only a few fowl, living for the
rest upon wild fruit and the game they
kill. They have a peculiar language,
and their weapons and instruments are
of a very inferior kind. Iron arrow.
points are, however, sometimes found In
their possession, and they train a kline
of greyhound for hunting" Wissmanr
formed a very good opinion of the war
like King Mirambc, whom he visited in
August, after a pleasant stay with the
Rev. Griffith at Ruanda, near Tanganyl
ka, and who treated him to two bottles
of champagne. After a visit to the
French missionaries at Tabora and tt
DIR. Bohm and to DR.. Reichardt at Con
da he enjoyed some good shooting, and
on November IL, 1882, he embarked fol
Suez at Zanzibar.
Of DR.. Pogge's safe return to King
Mukenge we have heard nothing as yet,
but the Berlin Geographical Society is in
hopes that he has founded a station
there, and that we may any day hear o.
his arrival at Loanda on his way home
ward.
Wissmann arrived in Cairo on New
Years day, on the very same day as Mr.
Joseph Thomson, who had proceeded tt
Zanzibar at the request of the London
Geographical Society.-Berlin Cor. Lon
don Datku TeLeQrGph