The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-06-19
FRENOaMaN ON TOAST.
Africans Kill, Roast and Eat NJ. Gram
pel's Expedition.

pei ExpeQlClOn.
PARIS, June 1.-THE natives of Matonga
have massacred, roasted and devoured the
French expedition from Loango under NJ.
Crampel. This expedition was one Of &
trio. the other two being German and En-
glish, bound for Lake Tchad, which lies on
the southern border of the Saraha,
considerably to the east of the
Lower Niger, and between it and
the great bend of the Kongo lies the
most extensive stretch of UNEMPLOYED coun-
try In Africa. Denham and Claberton,
descending upon it from the north, dis
covered the great lake in 1923. More than
quarter of century later the great En-
glish expedition, under Richardson, Barth
and Overweg penetrated into the region of
the Tchad, and in 1852 Overweg died on the
shores of the lake. Richardson also sue
cumbed, while their successors, Vogel end
Bearmann, met with violent deaths. Later
explorers were more fortunate. Rohlfs
reached the lake safely in 1S65-67, and
Nachtigal in 1S71-'72.
THE ILL-sTARRED EXPEDITION.
Lake Tchad is about 1000 miles due east
of the French possessions in Senegal, but
from the French possessions in Loango, Just
to the north of the Kongo it is distant
about 200 miles only in a northeast direc-
ton. The French expeditions have there
fore made Loango their starting point. The
large expedition under M. Paul Crampel.
which has come to grief, started out from
Loango about a year ago. NJ. Crampel
assembled the Mobangi, the largest tributary
of the Kongo, into which it empties Just
below the equator. with the intention of
reaching the most northern point in its
course. He was then to leave the river and
push in a northwest direction, over a dis
lance of 700 miles, through the unexplored
territory between the Mobangi and Lake
Tchad.
Until the news of the disaster to the
CraInpel expedition was received to-day,
nothing had been heard from the party for
months past. 1t was supposed. however, to
be far on its way to Lake Tchad, and if
Crampel had been favored by fortune he
would have been able to place many tribes
in the unknown country in the basis of
Shari and on the outskirts of Bagirm under
the protection of France.
MORE FOOD FOR THE sAvAGEs.
In December last, the committee on
French Africa was formed in Paris. for the
purpose of promoting exploration and
French trade in the interior of Africa
Within month the committee had per-
fected its plans and the leaders of a new
expedition were on their way to Africa. 1t
was believed that the work of Crampel
would be robbed of half its value unless
| second large expedition was sent to estab.
lish posts among the tribes with whom he
was endeavoring to make treaties. The
| new expedition is under the command of NJ
Jean Dybowski, lecturer at the Agri-
cultural College of Grignon.
Stopping at Senegal, where forty-two
Senegalese soldiers, armed with repeating
RIDES, were engaged as an escort, M Dybow-
| ski and his four white companions sailed
south to Loango, where they arrived about
May 20 There they expected to hire a
large number of carriers, and were then to
march overland to Stanley Pool, where, fol-
lowing in Crampeps footsteps. they are to
! embark on French vessels and steam I'D the
Kongo and Mobangi TO Crampei's furthess
camping place on that river. Then they
will start overland toward Lake Tchad, in
the footsteps Of the unfortunate Crampel.
Although the Dybowski expedition is much
better equipped in every respect than that
under Crampel, it is probably not sufficient
ly formidable to escape the fate that has
| befallen its forerunner