The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1889-11-28


The British Consul ut Zanzibar on tho
,o,t coast OF Africa, has received the follow
a.. communication from Explorer Henry
N Stanley. who is on his return from the
s,nedition into the interior of the continent;
oCrpv,N STATION, MPwAPwA, Nov. II, 1889.
'.naar Strive arrived here yesterday on
Che iifty.ffth day from Victoria Nyanla and
,be lSsth day from the Albert Nyanza. we
number altogether aoouV 'ov % sou's' TT. ~
,he last muster three days ago, Emin
pacbn's people numbered 29i OF whom
sa are children, mostly orphans
n Tcyptian officers. The whites with mo
are lieutenant Stairs, Captain Nelson,
Mounteney, Jephson, Surgeon Parke, WIZ,
| lam Bormy, Mr.. Hoffman, Emin Pacna ana
| his daughter Captain Casati, Signor Marco
| and n Tunisan Vitu HaSsan, and an npothe-
cary We have also Peres Girault and
Scbirza Of the Algerian mission. Among
the nrincipal officers of the Pacha are the
Vakeers, Of the Equatorial province, ana
Major Awash Efondi, of the Second pat
talon. -, . t,,.o
los, eighteen OF the Pacha's people and one
native Of Zanzibar. who was killed while we
u wers parleying with hostile people. Every
other expedition / have led has seen the
! Hghtening of our labors as we drew near
\ the sea, but | cannot say the same on Inis
Tolls n different tale, and until we place
these moor things on shipboard there VIII be
norsSt forus. The worst of il is we have not
the privilege Of showing Mt Zanzibar the iul
extent Of our labors. After carrying some
Of them 1000 miles fighting To the r1gnb anu
left Of the sick. driving Warasura from their
nrey over range and range of mountains,
with every energy on the full strain, they
din through our hands and die in their nam
macIs one lady, 'seventy-dve years OF age,
the old mother of the Valkiel, died IN inns
mannerin North Msukuma, south Oh VIC
tof1a Nyanza. l.,
as we had anywhere For those four days
we had continuous fighting during the great
or mart Of daylight hours. The foolish ma
tiyes took an unaccountable preludlce 10
the Pachas people. They insisted that they
were cannibals and had come 10 ,heli 's ~,
try for no good Talking TO them was OF no
use Any attempt at disproot drove tneiil
into white hot rage, and in their mad nihSihe
of themselves ON us they suffered.
~ am advised that the route to the sea Wy
Simba and Mwene is the best Tor one thin
that specially appears desirable 10 ineuai
abundance of food. propose TO auoPt Una
line As regards the danger of an atticii
this road seems To me to be as bad as anothei
1--WE have made the unexpected discovery
~ real value in Africa, of consiueIapie oii
tension Of the Victoria Nyanza To tne sout'l
west. The utmost SOuIhcily IthNh "
extension is south latitude = degrees ana I
minutes. which brings the Victorian ~
within l55 miles only from Lake Tangany IKE
~ was 50 certain in my mind that tnls l"c
was known through the many voyages o
{the Church Missionary Society to Uganda
that do not feel particularly moved by II
Nackay. however, showed me tine late'
{maps published by the society, and 1 say
THAT not one had even II suspicion of IT. "
lthe road here made a rough sketch OF j
md find that the area of the great iake
how increased by this discovery 10 2o,S'
square miles which is just about 1900 squai
miles larger than tho rcputed exaggerauof
pr Captain Speke.
If you will glance at map OF the iah
loward the southwest you viii IND that u
oast line runs about west-northwest an
ast-southeast: but this coast line SO ara"
consists mainly of u series of rgeand moul
ainous islands, many of them well people
khch overlap one another. South OF the
Stands is a large body of water, just DISCO
red Lake Uriji, also which Captain Spe'
y slightly slietched. 1t turns ont TO be
Fery respectable lake, with populated islam
IN il.
II hope that we shall meet before long
II beg 10 remain your obedient servant
"HENRY NJ. STANLEY.
ITO the British Consul-General at Zani