Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1891-01-12

usual enterprise would he accepted as
carrying With it all sorts ef means neces
sary to success. ~ gold there would
surely be no lack-gold. the key to every
fastness Yet with all the resources poured
out without stint, the Livingstone Relief
expedition fell back again and again upon
the power of human nature" lodged in
the leader.
II is only through following day by day
the experiences of Stanley that the mind
can grasp the trials and difficulties of this
mission, which Stanley himself declares
was oaly child's play beside his later
achievements. On the day of dispatching
his last caravan from Zanzibar his routine
labors ended, and with less than no fol-
lowers, and but twenty four OF them tight
ing men. he entered the wilderness of
Africa bound for an adventure of the most
| daring type. He was Il young man, and
| his strong constitution weathered the fe-
vers which attacked him rs soon as he en-
| tered the region of swamp and desert.
| After the fever the next great obstacle in
| the way of progress on an GRAND of this
nature is the Arab element. These power
| full, ENTHUSIASTICALLY and rapecious people
| are not to be avoided on any practicable
route OF travel, and while hostility with
| them means defeat, alliance is almost As
| fatal. Stanley fell in with II caravan that
soon became involved in a bitter war with
native bandits that disputed the route to
| Ujiji, where Livingstone was supposed
| to be-
| The chief of the robbers, Mirambo, after
accepting heavy tribute from the Arabs,
| coolly told them To turn back, for no Arab
| should pass across to tjiji except over his
dead body. Stanley led his men into battle
| in aid of his fellow travellers. and he strong
hold of the bandits, XimbiAo, was carried
| and Mirambos forces scattered. But the
| ungovernablc Arabs rushed wildly in pur-
| suit of the sayages and soon met with a
stunning defeat The Arab leaders then
| decided to abandon the Route, but Stanley,
| although someof his best men deserted, set
out toward Ujij on another road. The
| Arabs used every means To thwart this new
enterprise, but the stout hearted leader
gathered company of fifty four men, in
GLIDING natives, and started to find Liv-
ingstone or die in the attempt.
| In short time twenty men deserted in a
body, and then the remainder .mutined.
| Facing their ready weapons, Stanley coy
cred the strongest man among them with
his rifle and quelled the mutiny on the
spot The WAIVER of a muscle would have
cost his life but his GOODNESS restored or
der, and he went ahead and found Living
stone This was in 1871. Stanley's next
expedition began in 1874, and was organ
| ize,i to complete the labors of Livingstone,
who had died meanwhile, and solve the
mystery of Lake Victoria. He made his
way from Zanzibar to the lake with the
usual trials of descrtion and sickness, and
| was rewarded by valuable discoveries as to
| . l. L,, r . ha Nifn " i.tn Grin
he advanced to Ujiji, followed in Living
| stones tracks around Lake Tdnganyika,
and then started ON his remarkable trip
down t he unknown river, the Congo His
predecessors in this field had been unsuc-
ccssful. Stanley arranged with an Arab
trader, Tippoo lib, to furnish armed allies,
carriers and guides, and with lag men Of
his own expedition started from Nyangwe
in November, 1876
In few weeks the Arab escort gave up
in despair in face of the difficulties, sick
ness and hostile natives, and Stanley again
set ont alone. The Arabs contcnded that
the great river flowed north and in no
other direction, hut Stanley insisted that
it was the head Of the Congo. Within the
next two months the expedition made the
| wonderful passage of the cataracts, and en-
gagged in battles almost daily with tho
natives. Thir'y-one pitched battles took
place between Nov q, 1876, and Feb il,
1877. On this last date Occurred the hard
est battle Of the series, that with the
Bangala. On approaching the land of the
Bangala Stanley expected friendliness, but
these people had never seen a white man
and would receive no offers Of peace. The
expedition moving in canoes, and BE-
fore "A landing could he made for defense
the party was assailed by a force of sixty
three boats with over 800 warriors. Stan