Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-12-06

The British Consul at Zanzibar, on the
east coast of Africa, has received the follow
ing communication from Explorer Henry
M. Stanley, who is ON his return from the
expedition into the interior Of the continent:
t'GERMAN STATION MPWAPwA Nov. IL, 1889.
Dear Strive arrived here yesterday on
the fifty-ffth day from Victoria NyanZa and
the 1S8th day from the Albert Nyanza, We
number altogether about $50 souls. At
the last muster, three days ago, Emin
Pacha's people numbered 294, OF whom
of Egyptian officers The whites with me
are lieutenant Stairs Captain Nelson,
Mounteney, Jephson, Surgeon Parke, Will
lam Bormy, Mr. Hoffman, Emin Pacha and
his daughter, Captain Casati, Signor Marco
and Tunisian, Vitu Hassan, and an apOthe-
cary We have also Peres Girault and
Schinze of the Algerian mission. Among
the principal officers of the Pacha are the
Walkers, of the Equatorial province and
Major Awash Effendi, of the Second bat
talon.
'sSince leaving Victoria Nyanza we have
lost eighteen of the Pacha's people and one
native of Zanzibar, who was killed while we
were parleying with hostile people. Every
other expedition [ have led has seen the
Tightening of our labors as we drew near
the sea- but [ cannot say the same of this
one Our long string of hammock bearers
tells a different tale, and unit! we place
these poor things on shipboard there Will De
nOrest for US. The worst Of it is we have not
the privilege of showing at Zanzibar the full
extent of our labors. After carrying some
of them 1000 miles, fighting to the right and
left of the sick, driving Warasura from their
prev, over range and range of mountains,
with every energy on the full STRAIN, they
sin through our hands and die in their ham
Knocks One lady, seventy-ive years OF age,
the old mother of the Valklel died In TINS
manner in North Msukuma, south OF VIC
toria NyanZa.
eve had as stirring a time for four days
as we had anywhere. For those four days
we had continuous fighting during the great
er part of daylight hours. The foolish ma
tives took an unaccountable prejudice to
the Pacha's people. They insisted that they
were cannibals and had come TO tnelr cOun-
try for no good. Talking to them was OF no
use ANY attempt at disproof drove them
into white hot rage, and in their mad hlnglng
of themselves on us they suffered.
81 am advised that the route to the sea via
Simba and Mwene is the best for one thing
that specially appears desirable to mean
abundance of food propose to adopt that
line. AS regards the danger OF an attack,
this road seems to me to be as bad as another.
eve have made the unexpected discovery,
Of real value in Africa, of considerable e1-
tension of the Victoria NyanZa to the south
west. The utmost southerly reach OF this
extension is south latitude degrees and ~
minutes, which brings the Victorian Sea
within 155 miles only from Lake Ianganylka.
81 was so certain in my mind that this fact
was known through the many voyages OF
the Church Missionary Society to Uganda,
that do not feel particularly moved by it.
Mackay, however, showed me the latest
maps published by the society, and L saw
that not one had even suspicion of it. On
the road here made a rough sketch of it,
and find that the area of the great lake IS
now increased by this discovery to $4,000
square miles, which is just about 1900 square
miles larger than the reputed exaggerations
of Captain Spoke.
IF you will glance at map of the lake
toward the southwest you will find that the
coast line runs about west-northwest and
east-southeast: but this coast line so drawn
consists mainly of series of large and noun
famous Islands, many of them well peopled,
which overlap one another. South Of these
islands is a large body of water, just discov
cred Lake Uriji also which Captain Spoke
so slightly sketched. 1t turns out to be
very respectable lake, with populated islands
on it.
II hope that we shall meet before long.
81 beg to remain your obedient servant.
''HENRY NJ STANLEY.
$40 the British Consul-General at Zanzi-
bar"