The Democratic advocate., 1890-11-29

were secured and the party started Jun
10th for Uganda. At Bumbireh a nun
Der of Stanley's men were massacreed b.
the natives and battle was necessary il
order to force the passage northward. II
found the friendly Prince of Uganda en-
gagged in war with the Usoga and wa
obliged for the time to accompany Mites;
and his army of 100000 men, and h,
aided materially in bringing the conflict t.
speedy conclusion. Mtesa furnished
Stanley with an escort of $500 men, ant
on January 11th Lake Muta Nzigc wa
reached. In consequence, however O.
hostile demonstrations by the Uzimba the
Uganda troops deserted and the plan fol
the exploration Of Albert Nyanza had to bC
abandoned.
The expedition next turned toward
Karagwe, where several months were spent
in the exploration of the Kagera, OF
Alexandra Nile. From thence Stanley
proceeded, March 30, 1876, southwark
and was forced to return to Ujiji, on
Tanganika, for supplies. On the way he
had friendly meeting with the 'terrible'
Mirambo, who aided the white man in his
progress. so that he reached Ujiji on May
p, Stanley having completed the work of
Speake and Grant. "The Victoria Nyanza
and its surroundings had been forever
cleared from the mystery which had
hitherto surrounded them, and the great
watery expanse had been proved to form,
not five distinct lakes, as Livingstone, Bur-
ton and other eminent travellers had so
long supposed, but one vast inland sea,
with an area far exceeding that of any
other lake upon the African continent. F"
He proved it to be the largest body of fresh
water in the world.
Stanley's next work was the exploration
Of Tanganika, and to determine the final
flow of the stream which Livingstone had
discovered" The boat which had done
such good service on the Victoria, the
Lady Alice, was launched, and, attended
by another of native make, Stanley started
(June II, 1860 and proceeded south
ward along the east shore, and thence to
the north along the west coast He
reached UjTi, July 81, having during the
81 days of his cruise sailed over 80
miles, and having established the fact
Tanganika, although fresh water lake,
has no affiuent or outhowing river, great
=. s..,,rre8qHIl;, .,ceeqIl, "
LOWING THE LUALABA CONGO.
nS 'A ime the expedition had suffered
terribly-the ioro0 =, 70 reduced to 1872
-.sla'' were neoessaryy0n' Inc
sternest measure - Auoust 25th
the party intact, and OF -,-2izg,,-
Stanley crossed with his party to the west
shore of Tanganika He pushed forward
to gather up the thread of Livingstone's
explorations, reaching in October the long
sought Lualaba, the stately river discover
ed by DR.. Livingstone, and which he be-
lieved to be the Nile. Cameron had been
there Is months before, but, being unable
to obtain canoes, had abandoned the
stream, and reached the west coast by a
southwesterly route,
Here Stanley first encountered Tippo-Tib,
wealthy and powerful Arab who had been
with Cameron. Stanley succeeded, by
promise of liberal compensation, in secur-
ing the cooperation of Tippo-Tib, who
furnished canoes and who was to accom-
pany the party with 300 men for distance
of 60 camps. The combined force started
from Nyangwe on November 2, 1876, and
by Christmas Day had reached Vinya- Njaia.
The difficulties of the road thus far had
been so severe that Tippo-Tib and his force
asked to be and were released from their
agreement. They returned to Nyangwe
and Stanley, whom it seemed no obstacles
could daunt, pressed forward toward the
equator, determined to follow the river to
its mouth. "From January 9th to the
29th, weary period of twenty days, the
members of the expedition were fighting
their way step by step, from the first to the
seventh cataract of the Stanley Falls. The
canoes had repeatedly to be hauled out of
the stream and dragged oyer miles of
rugged forest road and then launched
again upon the wild and turbulent waters,
in the midst of violent onslaughts from the
cannibal tribes of the region, who hung
about the locality and kept up perpetual
strife with the heroic little band led by
the white stranger"
From the foot of Stanley Falls they
foatcd down the stream, fighting their
way, repelling 30 odd attacks. Many of
the men were drowned in the frightful
Cararaets, and for III days the little band
struggled through series of difficulties
which seemed almost insurmountable, At
one time 80 days we're spent in traversing
a distance of only three miles And later
on, when the expedition had nearly reached
its destination, its very existence was
threatened by absolute starvation. Finally,
on August 9, 1877, Stanley reached the
European trading settlement of Bona, only
20 miles from the coast, after having
travelled 1853 miles in darkest Africa, u
and just 800 days since the start from
Zanzibar. OF the entire expedition only
los remained, the number of deaths hav.
ing been 173-no less than 80 having beer
lost in the frightful passage Of the cataract'
known as Stanley Falls and in the awfu