Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1887 — COLONEL LONG. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

COLONEL LONG.

The Distinguished Traveler Whom the President Recently Appointed Consul General at Corea. Charles Chnille Long, of New York, known as a famous Central African traveler, was born in the town of Princess Anne, Md., and is 45 years old. After participation in the campaigns of the civil war Captain Long left toe United States army and some time after entered the service of the Khedive of Egypt, with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel of the staff. An accomplished linguist, he was chosen chief of staff to the late Gen. C. G. Gordon

(Chinese Gordon] and accompanied the latter in that capaciiy to Central Africa. Under circumstances which render the result accomplished little less than marvelous, he traced the river Nile for the first time from the Mediterranean to its source and was received by the African monarch, King M’Tse, in princely fashion. The impressic n made by the Khedive’s soldier and diplomatist was of such a nature that it assured to Henry M. Stanley, who visited him subsequently, a kindly welcome by M’Tse. The King sicned an in rurpent by which he foimally recognized himself as a vassal of Egypt.' On his lelurn journey Long discovered a third basin and source of the Nile. Subsequently, at the head of a column of regular troops, he entered the Niam country, west of the Nile, and after many encounters with the savage tribes subjected that country to the Khedive’s authoritv.