The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1883-09-14
STANLEY IN AFRICA.
The sltuation on the Congo,

Correspondence London Telegraph. 10.
The influence of S%tanley't expedition
over the natives has so gained ground
that now a white man may travel, as l
have done accompanied by only three
Zanzibaris, a distance of two hundred
fifty miles beyond Stanley Pool, treated
everywhere with kindness and cordiali-
ty by the pleasant-tempered natives. So
much for what Mr.. Stanley has done un-
der the generous aid of Leopold III. AS
TO De Brazza and the French, they can
hardly yet be regarded as factors in the
Congo question, for, aowever much they
may be talked about in Europe, the ma
tiyes of the Upper Congo do not read
the European journals, and consequent
~ i've In no state of expectation of the
civilization with which France is about to
Brazza. Of this latter and his tri-colored
tags there still remains a slowly
fading remembrance. They
call him Canadian" or "Camoleno" "a
corruption of "Commandant'O, and dim
ly remember that he once promised to
return; but inasmnch ss his tri- colored
nags. have proved quite inadequate for
the purpose to which the natives put
them; which was to swaths the loins of
their portly chief, and as their high and
sublime use is scarcely understood or
appreciated, and. in short, as Cam
oleno" seemed to have 20 more practical
presents to bestow, they are perfectly
indifferent as to his return. They will
not oppose him unless he enforces his
imagined rights with violence; mol will
Mr.. SANKEY'S expedition do anything
unloyal toward afellow white, or indeed
ayan a h1to., fr,yr hn1p;,,- ~, - ls~-
as he puts forward nc vain p%retensions.
But, meanwhile, as he is struggling up
the Ogowe, he will have t, battle
with all the obstacles and hin.
ORANGES that first attacked the in
comitable Stanley. First, there is hun
ger-fOr he has no gardens and planta-
tions OF manioc and bananas of three
years date, such as now belong to the
expedition, and the countries along the
Congo, however rich their soil may be,
are only made to grow sufficient food TO
sustain their Observation-Disclosures. Then,
where Stanley had spent five millions OF
francs, De BrazZa has but a small sum
to spend, and when that is gone, he will
find Africa an absorbing soil. At pres
ent, "Brazzaville, "or, as its fifty or sixty
inhabitants still call it, "Mfwa," con-
tains, perhaps, eight native huts, buried
in bananas and thick vegetation, and
lies in a very low-lying and, 1 should
think, unhealthy site or the northwest
corner of Stanley Pool. Makoko, who
has been deposed by his tickle SUBJ
jects, and another chief Mpumo.
Ntaba, reigns in his stead; SO it is DOUBT
full whether the contract will hold good.
Certainly if De Brazza does succeed in
reaching the Congo with his party fairly
intact, and establishing himself there
with his boats, he Will prove himself to
be a really great mar not a rival" OF
Stanley, let US hope, but rather his emu
lator in a noble toll. | do not believe,
however. that there will ever be a seri-
ous difficulty between the French and
the African international Association.
1t is rather the great Dutch Company
the A. H. ". (the Nieuwe A~fr,kansche
Handles Vennootschap), that from a
mistaken idea that tn expedition is in
imical to its real interests, tries to act
towards Mr.. Stanely as the ''~thresher"
to the whale. | do not mean to say that
personally, between most Of its mem
of the Dutch house, a courteous bearing
and even an interchange of hospitality
does not exist, but in an
abstract sense the Dutch company
avows itself to be the open enemy Of
the African international association.
When Mr.. Stanley first arrived at the
mouth Of the Congo on his second ex-
petition the Dutch may almost be said
to have enjoyed a monopoly of the COM
merce, for the other commercial houses
were practically their subsidiaries. I'm
agining, enormously, that the expedi-
ton would prove a serious rival on their
trade with the interior, or would indeed
cut off the ivory on Its wav to the coast,
the Dutch have assumed a decidedly
hostile bearing towards its operations;
md it is to Dutch sources, l fear, that
we " 30 many Of these false and rid
iculous tales Of Mr.. SANKEY'S doings
which circulate in the European press.
| cannot myself see that they have any
ground for their enmity, or that their
has suffered by the loss of a
penny since Mr.. Stanley explored the
Congo: Nay, rather, if they are loyal
towards him and follow him in the road
he is opening, if they make one COM
cause with him and adopt q broader
policy towards the natives, the Dutch
company may enjoy such future pros
perlty az it has never known.