New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-12-08


The bullet went six inches over my head. take
care that the next robbcr you shoot at Is further
away from me- Good night"
/ lie intended murder said DR.. Livingstone, when
Stanley told him the story Shaw grew moro ana
more useless a. they went along. and finally was
left behind when nearly threefourths of the journey
was accomplished. Dcserions and conspiracies with
IN the camp enlivened what part OF Stanley's time
was not occupied In battle. and all the While ne ana
AT least half his were being consumed Dy leVers'
Al ono time they seemed to be lost In pesthehce'
another to be swallowed by great armies oi opposing
negroes AT time. however, was there any q'Fs'loh
in stanIey's mind of going AS troubles multi
plIed and dangers with each trouble, his purpose grs"
| armer and more uncompromising. Deserters were
captured and chained, and his rifles angry
barrel threw terror into camp OF muHhecH nc
people he met with morally and physically were oi
all possible tribal varieties Among the many e'''0ai
conversations had with them IS one when Illustrates
/ how Intimately, after ALL the human iainlly i oou"'
! together 49,.
Where do tie dead 20" asked e'ahieS I" '47'7'
chleftan. a..
| ~Tbev are not, was the materialstic reply " Let
even the Sultan de-what is he No better IMAM d
dead dog There is no more to be said oil MIN 'nan
of any other man,
Bryant had much the same idea;
| And lost each human trace. surrcnderng up
! Thine individual being. shalt thou so
To mix forever with the clelenitIa.+ ,l,o,, wish
/
! Couch more magnificent. Thou shalt lie down
NTH pariarcfs OF the infant word-wllh kings KINGS
! The powerful OF the Garth the wise, !he soou'
! Fair forms and hOary seeIS OF ages pds''
All in one mighty sepuchle.
+ would seem as If the enlightened poet and the
avaoe warrior had reached about the same point
in their philosophers
How do the Mgogo marry - asked stahley'
60 they buy their women
! "What is a woman WORTH
"To n very poor man. maybe couple OF soA's'
How much must the sultan pay y
| The sultan would not buy a common woman ne
gets a chiefs daughter and pays many goats anu
| cows-sometlmes a hundred. If he wants her much-
he must give up many cattle. II takes many Gay 10
finish the talk about It. All the family and frlend'
/ Of the woman have 10 Talk ABOUT i U0io'0 9"' 49,
her fathers house,
STANLEY soon began to hear Of Livingstone and came
upon him. a he from the first anticipated al UIJI vi
the Tanganyika. lie had been six months on the way
Their meetiDg was quite formal at first, but they
became devoted friends, and Stanley To-Day re'"0
Livingstone a. he nveres no other man. Inc eHcc' vi
This singular acquaintance upon Sanleys subsequent
career was lasting and profound Livingstone reiSe'
| roint hank 10 return with Stanley. He was theh
/ .cl-dy,ng But he felt that he had work 10 90
in preaching 10 the negroes and IN huhthg lor INC
Nile, sources and he Rad determined 70 De dNerle"
/ from tbs by no other hand than that OF l@ah NM
elf stanley stopped with Livingstone for about four
]
Of his last five years work 1t was OF vaS
in making over the map of Lower Africa
Naturally the experiences acquired upon ths en-
neIition were not allowed 10 be lost When he had got
home and had been sufficiently Toasted anu hauered
by some and attacked and berated by DINERS anu
after he hal received diamond snuif-boX from inc
Queen and various melals and things from otner
monarcbs and pnope greater or less IN the degree OF
| rbeir importance and after he had fought herce
hattie with many OF The Herad's7 lncedulous though
esteemed contemporaries all this he went Dach
10 Zanzibar ard led a great exploring party up TO and
around the Victoria Nyanza. He explored ms great
inland ocean with care and fidelity though not without
heavy losses in men, for between Zanzibar and me ahe
he had 10 fight increasingly. Fully third of his force
had d,ed or deserted before he reached the NyanZa
| He had borne thlther i'm sections huge canoe, the
Lady Alice, and having established his camp OH
the southern shore. he and picked crew TOOK ths
water in the Lady Alice and began the cirumnav
CATION. He found the place where the Blue Nile
starts forth upon its long journey TO the Mediterranean
and he had a famousy good time with thc amable ana
courlv King Mesa of Uganda. whose son had recently
been behaving 30 dlsgracefully. stanleys wonderlui
escapes from what seemed the moment to be certain
and inevitable death during the progress OF TINS eN
redton were constantly recurring, that it Is no
wonder he was elevated by his followereo god-like
emnence nor that he himself cage TO look upon his
life as predesiiucd be saved and ever In Heaven
care At one tine, treacherously surrounded and
dragged from the water by natives who had enticed
him 10 their shorc by promises of food he walled
silently and with seeming abandon while preparations
were made for the massacre Of his party. Then It
a sudden signal nc and his men made Wild rush for
their boat tossed the water and scrambled over
its sides Taking a convenient position. stanley
deliberately shot down twenty-fom men one after
another and returning with his whole party and some
negro allles he devaste the entire country populated
bv this treacherous tribe. He IS satisfied that this
nief- wi
bostiles among whom the fame Of his dread proves
spread rapidly lie justifes what resembles lntoer-
able cruelty on the ground that he had 10 choose be-
tween that and the slow determination OF his party
through similar act, Of savage perhdy With but three
exceptions Of which this is one Stanley never fought
when there was the slightest hope OF escaping without
the los, Of life in his own party. His tour around
Lake Victoria was of the highest value 10 geographers
After an unsuccessful effort 10 get over to Lake Al
bert the explorer drove rapidly TO the southwest In
tending 10 continue along Lake Tanganyka the invest
cations begun by him and Livingstone six years be
| fore He moved rapidly. for now he knew how b
travel Already in six months he had come 100 miles
| by land and 900 miles BY water
There is some mysery about the Tanganyika which
has yet been solved. and one cannot help but feel
that stanley ought then and there have solved It.
II IS tremendous body OF water, 800 miles long, and
upon an average, 30 miles wide. Countless
streams flow into IT.. None has been found flow
And yet its waters perfectly fresh and the lake
is rising rapidly every year. The UjJ market place,
where he met Livingstone. was now 100 feet out In
/ the lake, under twenty feet Of water Stanley pur
sued his way down the shore OF the lake. till he
| came upon the Lukuga River which. he says, flows
into and not of the lake. It's from the
west and he went up the stream until he came TO a
| small pond which seemed be the summit Of
divide for the Of the pond flowed out and
emptied into the Luaaba. But the outflow he
describes a mere trtckle. This is exceedingly un-
satisfactory and his theory that the Tanganyka rises
until overiows through the Iulmga into the Iualaba
and thus emptes It's surplus every decade or so into
/ the Atlantic Ocean, is equally Having pursued
the Lukuga until he found lis shallow connection with