The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-02-16

arms, but by dint of endless patience
and persuasion, the scrup es of the
natives were gently dispelled. their
fears AS to aggression allayed by
fair dealing, and soon-marvelIousIy
soon, when one thinks how slow
things march in Africa-the inhabit-
ants of regions which a few years
before were utterly unknown and
supposed to be inhabited by ferocious
cannibles. were beginning to welcome
the purpose and ends of this great in
cursion of white men in their lands.
Station after station was founded with
the glad consent of the local chiefs,
who let the best sites in their terri
tories to the "Exp edition" or to
"Bula Ma,ade" in person, to the great
"StonebreaEer," as they call the al
most deified Stanley, by reason of
him blasting some enormous rocks
that INSTRUCTED his road. Sometimes
the progress was checked sometimes
q "hi'S i'oh ouCSuil'beI ~ TIRE dFtFu~
Gus work and hard living which were
at first tie lot of the pioneers of the
expedition,
At one station, Manyanga, while
Stanley was absent dragging his boats
on to Stanley Pool, the natives, like
all negroes love can only be gained
by inspiring respectful fear, imagiI ed
that the lives of the few occupants of
Manyanga Station were at their mer-
cy, and became in consequence in
creasing insOlent with the conscious
ness of their comparative strength,
until at last peace had to be broken
and the little garrison were obliged
to sally forth and drive away their
besiegers. A few grass houses in the
distant villages were burned as re
prisals for the robbeIies committed
by the natives, and fine of land was
imposed and paid. But an effect had
this unexpected display of latent
force on the native mind that only
two months after the little war was
over the natives were on better and,
if possible, more intimate terms with
the whites than elsewhere the young
men willingly hiring themselves as
carriers to the number of fifty at
time. while the women of the sur
rounding villages came every day in
to the station to work in the gardens
or to bring their many products for
sale. This war at Manyanga and
small skirmiSh in the densely popu-
lated village of Lutete (where there
is now Furnishing station. guarded
by one white man and two Zanzi-
baris) formed the only Interruptions
which have taken place in the friend
ly intercourse existing between Mr..
SANKEY'S expedition anG the. inhabi-'
tants along the Congo. These, two,
far from leaving any disagreeable or
have rather, as it were, conduced to a
more durable friendship, founded, as
far as the black man is concerned, on
a firm basis of respect for his white
friends.
Thesnative district of Kintamo
around LeOpoIdville, is poor as food
producing country. This place-call-
ed after the King Of the Belgians-is
destined to be the Empire City of the
Stanley Pool region. 1t stands rath-
er at the entrance to this great expan-
sion of the Congo, and from its hill
and lovely meadow lands which lie
spread around the water basin. Kim
D0kO is situated at she Other end of
the pol, near where the Congo en-.
tiers it from the northeast. All the
stations. with their gardens and plan.
tatiOns, their workshops and "cor-
rails" for stock breeding, have been
founded in three years time. With.
in three years the influence of STAN
ley's expedition over the natives has
so CARED ground that now white
man may travel, as l have done, ac-.
companied by only three Zanaibaris,
a distance of $50 miles beyond STAN
ley Pool, treated everywhere with
kindness and cordiaIity by the pleas
ant-tempered natives.