New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-11-22
sTANLEY'S WORK IN AFRICA.
AN IMPORTANT GEOGRAPHICAL DISCOVERY
By TIE EXPhORER
THE SOUTHERN EXTENSION OF LAKE Vl0roNhN
rx,NzA-FMlN ACCOMPANIED BY HIS
DAUGHTER FIGHTING ON THE


- ~. ., Mr. Nacl1innon, head OF the
Emin Pacha Relief Committee n"9 ,o,,nciro
ooh1o d,s,otch from Henry NJ. Stanley alnou"0'n7
49, au~i,.a1 a. Npwapwa, and stating thau he eA-
- .. rooob zanzibar in four or five days
NJ. St.rlev,s dispatch also states Una. he has
- ...,at discovery that there Is an eX-
tension of Lake Nyanza. ,..,,s - .to
IT, rritisb Consul at Zanzibar tclesrapns 10 'i'7
ossoe as follows Stanley arrived at
,,,-n,,a IN the ffty-ffth day after his departure
S-au, rho Victoria Nyanza and the lSeth day alter
leaving the Albert Nyanza'
In addition 10 the names already telegraphed,
r,orlev has with him Hoffman,, Emin's daughter,
and Fathers Grault and Schinze of the Algerian
Mission.
Stanley left Mpwapwa on the 9th, travelling
toward the coast by way of kemba and Mwem
Stanley made an unexpected discovery OF real
value in finding extension OF the victoria
Nva1za toward the southwest The utm~st
southerly reach of the extension IS south latitude
Two degrees forty-eght minutes. This brings the
Victoria Nyanza within 155 miles Of Lake Tan
ranyika. The area OF the extension Is 26,9OO
square miles
According TO further advices received by the
Foreign Ofice, Stanley has with him $50 PERSONS
Of whom 900 are Emins followers. There are also
eighteen men during the march from the Victoria
Nyanza. He had four days fighting near Usu-
kama. The expedition is expected TO arrive at
Bagamoyo in fortnight.
Zanzibar. Nov. 21.-Stanley, writing to Captain
Wissmann, from Mpwapwa, under date of Novom-
her IL, says " | have often wished TO see you.
Fate has brought within few days oil each
other. l hope il will still be auspicious and
keep you till I have a pleasing opportunity OF
knowing colleague who has labored so un-
ostentatiously and well, in similar field, under
the same royal patronage"
Mr.. Stanley in q letter 10 the British Consul
al Zanzibar, gives, in addition to the news al
ready cabled. the following story. lie says:
Every previous expedition has seen the tighten
ing of its labors upon nearing the sea. But the
long string of hammock bearers with US now
tells different tale TIL we can place the poor
things in our company on shipbOarl, there VIII
he no rest for Us The worst of II Is that we
have nor the privilege of showing you at
Zanzibar III, full extent Of our labors. After
carr\ln. some of them thousand miles and
fighting TO the right and left of the SICK driving
the Warasura from their prey over range after
range of mountains, with every energy ON full
strain they slip through our hands and die IN
their hammocks. one lady, seventy-five years
old. mother OF Vasllie died in this manner
In North Usukuma, south of the Victoria
Nvanza we has as a stirring time for four days as
anywhere on our route. There was continuous
fighting during the greater part of the daylight
hours The foolish natives took an unaccountaDie
preiudiee against Emins people. They insisted
that they were cannibals and had come for no
Good purpose. Talking useless. as any at
tempt to dsprove their impression only drove them
into white hot rage, and IN their
mad hate, hnging themselves on US, they suffered
severely.
lam advised that the Semba and Nlwcne route
is the best for securing an abundance OF food,
and therefore I propose to adopt it. But as re-
cards danger from attacks by the natives, one road
seems TO be as bad as another
Regarding the Victoria Nyanza. Stanley says II
is 900 square miles larger than reported by
Spelc. whose statement regarding the size OF the
lake was supposed 10 be an eXaggeration. The
Urin also, which Speke so lightly
sletched, turns out to be very respectable lake
with populated islands
Berlin, Nov. 21.-Thc National ZeitunG' says
that Emin has chosen the Mpwapwa route because
he intends to hand over what remains Of hls
province to Germany.