Jasper Republican, Volume 2, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1875 — Some of Stanley’s Discoveries in Africa. [ARTICLE]

Some of Stanley’s Discoveries in Africa.

The New York Herald of Nov. 10 publishes a telegraphic synopsis of letters received in London from Stanley. He says Dr. Livingstone was wrong in reporting that the Victoria Nyanza consisted of five lakes. Speke correctly states that Victoria Nyanza is one lake, but Speke’s two islands are peninsulas. The River Shimeeyu is the principal feeder of the lake and extremes! source of the Nile yet discovered. Stanley had several conflicts with slavedealers on the lake. On one occasion he was attacked by 100 natives, armed with spears, in thirteen canoes, who were repulsed after a severe fight. Three natives were killed. He arrived at the Utesal hunting-camp at Nisayura April 12, where the King directed extraordinary festivities and displays. One feature was a naval review on the lake of eighty-four canoes, manned by 2,500 men. On the second day, in addition to the naval maneuvers, there were races in which eighty-four canoes were engaged, each propelled by thirty oarsmen, the King leading the fleet personally, in the presence of a great crowd of on-looken, including the 300 wives of the King, bn the third day there was bird-shooting and target-practice by 8,000 troops, and on the fourth day he returned to Mtesas, the capital. This King has 2,000,000 subjects. He is a Mussulman, has great intelligence, and his dominion affords the best augury tor the possible civilization of Africa. The Moulton House, of Hampton, formerly a hotel, was the first house in New Hampshire, if not in New England, to be painted white, the paint being imported from England expressly for the purpose. Bight in the shadow of ftie honest milkmana mean-spirited cynic sits and says : “Thirteen millibn milch cows in this country assist to color the water for which the average American citizen pays eight sente a quart.”