The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-08-05

'Ah!" said the old man. II have
waited patiently for years for letters"
Livingstone and Stanley became fast
friends, and there is no doubt that
the older man exerted great influence
over the younger. Together they ex-
plored the northern extremity of Tang
ganyika. Livingstone believed that the
Albert lake had some communication
with the Nile system, but one result OF
this exploring tour was to disprove
this theory. On March 10, 1872, Liv-
ingstone and Stanley parted, and the
latter began his return march to the
| coast, which he reached on May 8.
1872, after encountering terrific floods
and storms.
When the news of the success of the
expedition reached civilization is was
hardly credited at first, but Stanley's
arrived in London with Livingstone's
letters and diaries put an end to all
doubt
Stanley's next visit to Africa was as
a war correspondent, accompanying Sir
Garnet Wolseleys expedition to Coon
AISLE. On reaching the island of ST.
Vincent from Ashanti, In 1874, he first
heard that Livingstone was dead, and
that the body was on its way to Eng
land. Stanley himself was in time to
attend the funeral in Westminster
Abbey.
Standing by the open grave he
formed the resolution to take up the
work which Livingstone had been I'M
able to accomplish.
One day Mr.. Edward Levy Lawson.
now Lord Burnham, editor and propri-
etor Of the Daily Telegraph of Lon
don, asking him what work had been
left undone by him on the continent of
Africa, he replied
1.-THE outlet of Lake Tanganyika is
undiscovered, we know little or moth
ing of Lake Victoria, and therefore the
sources of the Nile are still unknown.
Moreover, the western half of the At
rican continent is still blank
Stanley added that if he survived
long enough he would accomplish ell
this work. Thereupon cable was sent
to New York asking the Herald if it
would join the London Daily Telegraph
in sending Stanley again to Africa. A
laconic yes" was speedily flashed
across the wires. Immediately the fit
ting out Of the expedition was begun
On Aug 16, 1874, Stanley left Eng
land for Zanzibar where the Anglo
American expedition was finally or
W.T. foko Of
sons, including SO women, 10 boys and
four Europeans, Stanley, the two
Brothers Pocock and Frederick Barker
The line Of march covered nearly half
a mile.
On Feb, 81, 1875, the south end OF
Lake Victoria Nyanza was reached at
ter great difficulties, repeated attacks
from the natives and some losses by
death and desertion. In his boat, the
Lady Alice Stanley accompanied by IL
men, circumnavigated the lake.
Livingstone, in his researches be- i.
tween Lakes Nyassa and Tanganyika
had proved the existence Of large
river flowing to the north under the
native name of Lualaba. He had i'm
agined it to be the Nile, an opinion
generally accepted by geographers.
Stanley, sailing down the river from
the furthest point which Livingstone
had reached to the Atlantic, identified
it with the Congo, and so proved the
existence of a magnificent equatorial
waterway in the very heart of Africa
the second largest river in the world.
This discovery filled up an enormous
blank in the map of Africa. Its polit-
ical Importance cannot be overestimat-
ed 1t led directly to the founding OF
What is now the Congo Free State, and
indirectly to the scramble for Africa
among the European powers which has
now left but an insignificant portion
of the continent unpartitioned.
In January, 1878, Stanley returned
to London, where he published the
story Of his adventures and discoveries
In Through the Dark Continent"
In 1879 he again went to Africa to
found, under the auspices of the King
of the Belgians, the Congo State-a
work which engaged all his energies
until 1888.
His last expedition to Africa was
for the ostensible purpose of succor-
ing Emin Pacha whose position in
the Equatorial Provinces, since the
abandonment of the Sudan by Egypt.
was supposed to be one of great peril.
The supposition was found to be an
error. but the book Through Dark
est Africa" in which Stanley told his
story of adventures, was received with
great popular favor