New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-02-27
AN AFRICAN UTOPIA.
RESULT OF EXPLORATIONS BY DR. PoGGE AND
LIEUTENANT WIsSMANN.
Berlin oDrrespondenee Of ne london TELEGRAPH.


Beylin Correspondence Of The london Telegraph.
German explorers have thrown so much light
ON the immense of country situated BET iSS
and 2Oo East Greenwich and II ahd - = H. 10 Tue
south ~ the great bend of the Congo may interest
your readers to hear short account OF whot ns Veen
done by them you take the western half OF stapeys
Man of Equatorial Africa hand will perceive four
large tributaries of the Congo dotted down noulhs
lake probably Lake Lincoln Of Livingstone. TO the
west of which vicious and most m1rderous d@aifs
named Watwa suppose TO exist ~ u Pogge anu
Wssman had done nothing but confirm the existence OF
thess pigmies, whom they call Bai1a and reduce the
Mukamba to very modest prOPortohs besides pie
Ing it fur to the s. E. under % 40 20 B. L. they
would merit praise But we owe lar more de 10 Them
strangers gratuitousy supplied with FOOD and they
reveal that Bassonge subjects of King Katshtsh
strong and handsome densely populated coun-
Try eening with natural produce, excel III artistic man
copper and iron weaving stu out of the Mabee plant
and showing skill basket making Wissinann declares
Tie Utopia has received the honorary epithet OF
Lubnku e. Friendship" but It's real name is Gasse-
principal chief MakeDse resides not iar rom the con
the iEhatants of one village sometimes Of several
villages I've looked upon as family, LOT each inbaD-
itan is treated by relation, and member
of line community stands by another for better and for
worse" The kings hospitality went so far that he ac-
companIed his guests distance about as great as from
Berlin 10 Dantzic-not ha ing received any present
cep, brass chain supplemented by the promise OF
musical box in Dr. Pogge should reach the Luaiaba
and return thence in safety The discovery OF the ami
able tribe Of TusseIange and OF the accomplished Bass
ONCE t'ok place In the Following manner: Inc Afr,
kasche Gescllschaft had charged DR. Paul POgge and
MlssuaIin "a
(s0 ~ 10" L. tue capital OF the Kingdom OF Lunda
over which OF the sraugest among swaithy poten
tacs, mighty Mwata Ianyo, reigns Both Pogge, III
1876 and Dr.. Max Buchner, in 1879 TO 1880 had found
II impossible though they otherwise met with very kind
" treatment TO penetrate 10 the east, north or south Of
Mwrta Yanvo's dOminiOns. The latter thoroughly
convinced that the European travellers could have no
frich feathers cheaper than from him. and he
ihwarted all their endeayors to penetrate further On
arriving therefore, July 20, 1881, from Loanda on
the Vest Coast, at Kmoandu between lO' aud Ito g. L.
and lgo aud r. they hardly sorry hear that
fhene tO were ar
count of some Kiokos having quaIreled with NJ Eata
Yanyo They at once Determined 70 push on to Make1ge
fofyfour yards OF calico per head they Ionnd three
ricndship Following the western bank OF the Chikapa
up confluence with the Bassai ana then o the latter
river up Kikassa the Peade country they trayersed
fhis deep stream, about 1000 feet broad and there
met Tusselange chief OF the name OF Klngenge who
insisted upon taking Lieutenant Mlssmann home with
him as mis- guest Thus after sixty-twO days journey
from Kinhuudu, Pogge arrived alone on October 80,
ISL at MOkenges place of residence, situated under
80 lO S. L. rather than 900 l.. of Greenwich. lie
describes the Tusselange as capital farmers Every
where around he saw broad fields OF line mandoca,
maize met, oarth-Duts or beans. Tobacco and hemp
both grown for smoking Their country Is fertile
and well-irftgated unduating pam Det"een TIE rivers
Kassa and Lulna, covered IN large measure by large
forests the midst of which raiIies, which the in
hebants cultivate and where they bud their Villages
The climate, though warm, Is saluorous Trade chiefly
consists in female slaves and india rubber and huniat
ing it may sound TO tue ears OF our ady readers tue
average price for fun grown female is inussc four
first days OF December POgge and WssmaDn met agan,
and about tue middle Of the month they reached the
Inbi fine tributary OF the Lubilash and In the midst Of
splendid tropical vegetation they villages arise,
where In clean and rooIny dwellings, with gardens
neatly hedged ill., forming streets light arrow
the BassOnge live under the shadow OF palm and
bananas"
THUS speaks Lieutenant Wissmann in letter from
Cairo (which ne has Just left for visit Cyprus
returning TO Germany OF country where according 10
thu ne west map published, cannbas have hitherto
believed reside. On January 20 1882, under 50
81 L. the two German explorers traversed river $50
feet broad the Lubash which turned to be
name us the saukur, denomination being used on
the western and another on the eastern bank. Along
well-weered grass meadows and through villages
miles long here there coming across cannibsls the
travellers reached the Lomani under 80 42l2 and pro-
ceedng again inundated districts and swamps,
and through plains the grass OF which was 80 knOtted
together TO be almost passabe they came upon the
Luubu April q Nine days later they descended this
river into Kasiku, and entered the LualaDa on the
18th. In Nyangwe the Arabs gave them goods on
credit and on May Pogge started back ior Mukenge,
while WissInanD with difficulty succeeded IN max
ing his way to the East Coast He says: From the
Lum ~ far as Lake Tanganyka met with remains OF
the Batua, who seem 10 the real sborgnes In tiny
and illconstructed straw hats despsed by the Baluba
tribes these small ushapen, attenuated, dirty and
nor do they keep pigs goats, but only few fowls iv
ting for the rest up<n wild fruits and the game they kill
They have peculiar language, and their weapons and
instruments or very inferior kind. Iron
points are however sometimes found in their
And they train kind OF greyhound for buutipg wss-
mann formed o very good opinion OF the wariike King
Nrambo whom he visited In August after pleasant