The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1892-05-25
INTO AfRlCk'S HEART.
n Greater Expedition Than stanseS =
The Venture OF an American Rx-
piHrer.


Mackinnon, head of the company
that sent Stanley on his last expedi-
ton, gave dinner this evening to
the youngest of African explorers,
who promises to he not the least
famous, William Astor Chanler of
America, who is fitting out the larg-
est expedition ever organized and
paid for as an individual enterprise.
Others present were Stanley, him
self, Sir John Kirk, Livingstone 5 old
friend, Sir Donald Stewart of the In.
dia Office, formerly COMMANDMENTS
Chief in India, and several we'll
known African travellers aud cxplor-
ers. Mr.. ChanIer gave out details
OF his proposed explorations, to
which certain interest is attached
by reason of the circumstance that
he has not yet attained his twenty
fifth year.
However, Chanler is by no means
unknown in geographic and scientific
circles. On being graduated from
Harvard, at the aye Of 81, he i'm
mediately went to Africa and while
many of his friends were spending
their time in clubs, watering places
aud pleasure resorts, he, with a small
caravan of Zanziharis at his back,
marched to Masailand and was the
first civilized man to make the COM
ple,e circuit of Kilimanjara.
Young CHAMBERS expedition will
start to the interior early in June
from Port Wtuland, on the East
coast. A reporter found him to-day
in a luxurious apartment in Mayfair.
He said: During the two years
that have passed since my return to
Europe my only thought has been TO
equip an expedition as perfectly and
as completely as possible, so that if
we fail to accomplish anything the
blame and responsibility will rest alb
solutely on my shoulders, and l think
that the caravan that l shall lead in
to the interior next June will COM
pare favorably in equipment with any
ever gotten together in Africa. We
are prepared for almost anything,
except, perhaps, for aerial naviga-
ton, for which we have not gone in.
"We shall enter Wituland as a
regular African caravan. North of
Mount kenia we shall shed our skins
and become, by the aid of scores of
camels l shall take with me from
Alden, desert caravan for Lake Ru-
dolph and the unknown inland seas
which it is rumored lie between that
lake and the east coast.
"We shall carry portable boats
and great quantity of wire roping
with which TO construct temporary
pontooDs to cross the rivers that NAV
intercept our route. For the ascent
of Mount Kenia we shall carry a very
perfect climbing apparatus, buS as
we do not intend to waste much en-
ergy in the ascent perhaps Mr..
Whymper, the great mountain climb
er of the world, may yet find as vir-
gin soil this sncwclad peak rising out
of the country Of torrid heat.
"rhe only other white man with
the caravan will be Lieut.. Hohnel,
very distinguished officer of the
Austro-Hungarian navy, who accom-
panied Count Samuel Te eki on the
memorable expeditionto Africa, about
which he has wrltten~the most inter.
estng and instructive work on Afri-
nap travail that I bnuo ,,,nt
accompanying me Lieut.. Hohncl is
aotuated solely by his love of science
and exploration, and / am indeed
fortunate in having with me so es-
teemed geographcr, so excellent an
officer and Il companion so entirely
congenial.
"Our caravan on leaving Lamu will
number 200 men, mastering about
ITO rifles. | will have with me twenty
or thirty domesticated Somali from
Alden to give stamina and fighting
example to the other native porters.
Our route will first lie through With
land, about sixty days journey along
the river Tana, until Mount Kenia is
reached.
'Here we will form a strong zereba
and spend some weeks, if possible,
in thoroughly exploring the noun
tain, of which little is known except
that on his journey with Count Telcki
Lieutenant Hohnel estimated its
height by triangulation to be about
5000 feet.
sin the desert country north of
kenia we shall commence to utilize
camels as weight-carriers and econo-
mize the strength of our men. This
prudence will not be misplaced, as
in crossing this desert Count Teleki,
after terrible hardships and priva-
tons, lost from want OF water and
from disease more than fifty men.
"Should our camels succumb to
the hardships of the journey up from
the coast we have still another string
to our bow before being compelled
TO take the desert march to Lake
Rudolph in circumstances strictly
analogous to those by which Count
Ielekl was handicapped and owing
TO which the caravan met with such
loss of life.
1.-The TWO weeks journey north of
Mount Kenia lies in country inhabit-
ed by a Nilotic tribe, which it is
is rich in camels. Leaving