The New York Herald Newspaper, August 12, 1876, Page 2

STANLEY. 2 His Last Letter from the Heart of Africa. INHOSPITABLE NATIVES Thwarted in His Plans by the Kishakka. A NATION OF MILK MISERS. The Supposed Lake West of Albert Niyanza. ‘PARALYZED BY FAMINE. Stanley Contradicts the Statement of Colonel Long. Unacwe, Western Uxvanwez, CeNTRAL APKICA, April 24, "1876. We doparted from the capital of Karagwe with very We had dis tovered that the Kagera River formed a great lake brave intentions and high aspirations, th ana from five to fourteen | miles in breadth, and that at Kishakka the Kagera was about eighty miles in len still a powerful, deop-flowing river, and curious reports from natives and Arabs bad created curious ideas within our minds as to the source of this noble river. Imbued with the thought that by journeying @ suificient | source, we made ample preparations for the crossing | . distance along its right bank we might discover this Mawide wilderness, packed ten days’ provisions of grain on the shoulders of each man of the expedition, ‘nd on the 27th of starch set out for the uninhabited land, | THE SOUTH END OF LAKE KAGERA IN SIGHT. On the second day of our departure trom the Karagwe Yapital we came to the east side of a lake, a long, ‘arrow, winding body of water, We marched along its eastern shore for three days, a distance of thirty- 4ix miles; on the fourth day and fifth day an obstruct- Ing ridgo shut it from our view while marching, but by | Dccasionally surmounting the ridge I managed to ob- | tain Views of its stream-hke water, stil extending j Bouth and southwest, On the sixth day we came to | Ubimba, the frontier of Karagwe, where, behind a | Fidge, which extends between Ubimba and the lake, we Baw the extreme south end of the lake we had so long followed. THE LAKE-LIKR AKANYARU, From a point of observation near Ubimba we saw alsoa decided change in the formation of the broad valley of the Kagera, The mountainous ridges bound- Ing the western shore of the Kagera, whieh, extending from Mporovo south, continue on a south by west course, became broken and coafused in Southern Kishakka, und were penetrated from the northwest by & wide valley, through which issued into the Kagera & lake-like river called Akanyaru. Southwest was seen the course of the Kagera, which, above the con- fluence of the Akanyaru with it, was only a swift owing river of no very great depth or breadth, Such briver I thought might well be created by the drainage of East Urundi and Western Ubba, My attention was drawu from the Kagera to the lake-like stream of Akanyaru, and several natives stated to me while look- ing toward it that it was an eilluentof che Kagera, and bhat it emptied into the Albert Niyanza Such an ex- sraordinary statement as this could not be received And transmitted trom me to you asa fact without being able to corroborate it on my own authority, Ex- Ploration of the mouth of the Akanysra proves that the Akanyaru is not an eilluent, but is an affluent of the Kagera. THE DANGEROUS KISHAKKA NATION, Beyond the mouth of the Akanyaru I dured not go, ts the natives of Kishakka on the left bank, and Ugatu I find the | | Dn the right bank, are too wild altogether, long-legged race inhabiting the countries west of Uganda, Karagwe and Uur have a deadly aversion to Mrangers, The sight fa strange dog scems stilicient | tosend them to mad rago and paroxysms of spear shaking and bow bending. Th are ail kin to the long. legged mortals of Bumbireh, who sounded the war ery At the mere sight of our inoffensive exploring boat float- Victoria Lake, ing on the They are so dreadtully Afraid of losing their cattle that if ove cow dies from | Bickness the whole couutry is searched todiseover the Stranger who has bewiteked the cow to death, for Whose loss, if one 18 found, his lie is forleit to the purblind, swall brained natives. STRANGE HOMIES OF THK PROPLE. Human beings frequently astonish one another tn all Couatries by their hovbies, and by showing excessive fondness fur gold, horses, dogs, cats, clothes, birds, &c, but the love which the Wasongora, Wanyankori, Wa-Ruanda, Wa-Kishakka, Wagatu, Wanyamba and Watusi exhibit for their cattle is an extreme, A stranger might die in any of those countries for lack of one drop of milk. Proved himseif, ho never ollered to give mo eveu one Selfish and miser-like affection. Generous and sweet-tempered as Rumanika teaspoonful of milk during the time I was with him, and had he given mea milk ean bis people would have torn him limb from limb, From this excessive love for their cattle springs their hostility to strangers, and this hostility arises from a dread of evil or fear of danger. By maintaining a strict quarantine and a sys- tem of exclusiveness they hope to ward off all evil and sudden disaster to their cattle, which are their sole means of subsisten: TK SOURCE OF THE KAGKEA RIVER, By comparing the information derived from natives of Ubimba, Uguiu, Kishokka, fim able to give you additional details of the source and tourse of the Kagera Urend: and Ruanda 1 ver, and I hold out to myself some small hope that in a few months from the present dave I may be able (o explore from another quarter a tract of country which, hypothetically, | believe con- tains the extreme sources of this river. Until that period let the following stand for the utmost of our knowledge of it, : MOUNTAINS TWELVE THOUSAND PRET WOM. From aridge near Mtagata Hot Springs, having an Bliitude 016,500 teet above éhe ocean | obtained a view of Ufambiro Mountains, which lave a height of avout 12,000 feet. This group consists of (wo sugar loal cones and a lumpy mass, aod is situate about forty Geographical miles west-northwest from Miagata, and orm a barricr at that spot between Mporovo and Ruanea TOPOGRAPHICAL PRATURRS OF CENTRAL AFRICA. The course of all the main ridges and valleys from Ruanda to the Victoria Niyauza appear to be south by west. Nay, you may say that from Alexandria to the Nyassa Lake, ibe central portion of Airica appears to be formed into ridges, deep troughs or basins, or val- leys, whose sengit is from north by east to south by | any, cannot learn defintely. West, or (rom northeast wo southwest, Regard the course of the Nile irom Lake Albert to Alexandria, the NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, AUGUST 12, 1876—WITH SUPPLEMENT. THE SOURCES OF THE New Map Showing Stanley’ yards, and th NIE. Explorations Between the Great Lakes, the Mountains Kabuga and Gambaragara, the Line of the Kagera River, and Fis Route to Ujiji. 32 31 position of Lakes Albert, Tangwytka and Nya well as the Victoria Lake, Foilow the course of the Mokattem range of mountains through Nubia, Abyssinia, Galla, Masai and Usagara ; trace the plateau of = Masal, = Umyanwezi, — Urori, Ubisa, south to the Bechuana country, aud you will perceive that the general lay of almost all rivers, lakes, mountains, basins and plateaus ts from northeasterly to southwesteriy, On a reduced scale it is even so with ail the mountain ridges and valleys be- tween the Lakes Victoria and Albert. It seems as if the throes which Africa suffered during that grand con- yulsion which tore her asunder, heaved up these stu- pendous ridges and sunk those capacious bisius now filled with lengthy and broad expanses of crystal-clear water were keenest and severest about these lake re- gions; for here the mountains are higher, the valleys deeper and narrower, We bave no longer the wide, billowy piateaa, Whose successive swells make travel and exploration tedious, but lengthy lines of moautains of enormous frame, separated from cach other by deep, narrow valleys, with a hundred aud many wonders pre- sented to the view at a glance. THE VALLEY OF THE NAWARONGO, From Mtagata Moantain, while looking ‘toward the Ufumbiro cones, there were visible three lofty ridges, separated by as many broad valleys. First was the Isbango and Muvarigridge, west of the Kagera Lake and valley, ana west of this were two ridges, with tho val- ley of Muvari between the two easternmost and valley of Ruanda between the two western most The two latter ridges appear to run parallel with each other (rom east and west of Ufumbiro Mountains, and shut in the valley of the Ni-Nawarango or Nawarongo River, which, rising in Ufumviro Moun- tains, flows south by west between Muvari and Ruanua, and enters Akanyaru Lake, thirty by twenty miles in extent. From Akapyara Lake issves Akanyaru River, between Ugufu and Kishakka, into the Kagera. The Kagera proper, coming trom the southwest, also enters Akanyaru Lake, but jeaves the lake south of Ugufu and takes a curve northeasterly between Ugutu and West- ern Usul THR SUPPOSKD LAKE WHST OF LAKE ALDERT. West of Akanyaru I could get no certain intelligence. I have hoard of another large lake lymg west, but what connection it bas with the Kagera, or whether it has One says that itis an arm of Luta Nzige or Lake Albert, another declares it to be & separate lake. Whatever it be I believe J will be able to discover at a later period, + PARALYZED BY FAMINE, With the best intentions to prosecute my explorations along the Kagora I was paralyzed by famine im Usul sand the hostility of the Warandi, and was obliged to abaudon exploration trom this side of the Tanganyika Summing upall the chances remaining for me to do gbdod work without expending vainly my goods and the beaith and energy leit im me, | saw it Was useless to sit down and lauvel invectives against the intractable na- lives, and that it was far beuer and more manly to harry on to other regions and try Lake Alvert by another route trom the opposive quarter, PLANS FOR EXPLORING LAKK ALIKRT, You will perceive by this letier that lam now in Western Unyamwezi, about fifteen days’ journey trom Ujyi What 1 propose dving now is to proceed quickly to Ujiji, then explore the Tanganyika im my bout, aud from Uzige strike north tw the Albert, i thas Froud be not oven to cross the Tangwuyika and travel north by a circuiious course to eflect the exploration of the Albert. It may not be actually necessary to ex- and We——— Debelleforo’st— Battle i ag Sm a 34 Pl Islands, 7 &(« Mashimbi Igengi Ruana KR. Mei ma _ \ Magu USUKYMA 1 | ! | i 0 | “AW ivas i Wag: | PWakunel 4 . | | | Kasirondo * Kamasia yor | i | 1 | TUTWA Head waters of * Luwampern.extreme_| § 32 plore that lake, for Gordon or some of his officers may | have accomplished that work, but have no means of knowing whether they have done so or not; it there- fore remains for me, if the feat is possible, to cireum- havigate it, If it is not I shall strike out for other regions and continue exploratioa elsewhere, until my poverty of goods warns me to return, HOW THR LETTERS WERE SENT, By the same bearer which conveys this letter to the coast I send four others, which have been kept ty mo unul I had an opportunity to send them. ‘Three at least I expected to put in person into the bands of one of Gordon’s officers; but it was not tated to beso. From Ujyji I shall send the dupticates of these ietiers to the coast, and belore 1 quite leave that port I expect to possess other geographical items to transmit to you, NEWS FROM THE OUTER WORLD. Gordon Pacha Was Kind enough to send me a Daily Telegraph of December 24, 1 and a Pall Mall Gazette ot the saime month, which 1 received in ‘ganda just before starting tor the Albert Niyanza. CAMERON'S DISCOVER In the Telegraph 1 saw a short letter from Cameron, dated May 3, 1873, wherein he says he bas discovered the outlet of the Tanganyika to be the Lukuga, Cam. eron has been foriunate and energetic, and deserves credit for the discovery. But he says ke has not quite circumnavigated the Tanganyika, because he did not think it worth while after discovering the Lukuga, It may be Cameron, by this omission, bas left ine some. thing to discover in the Tanganyika, but whether or not, the Lady Alice shall not quit the waters of that lake unt! L have finished the two-thirds lett unvisited by me ou ny first expedition, COLONEL LONG CONTRADICTED, In the Pall Mali Gazette 1 read a more startling statement whiéh deserves trom mea flat contradiction, as no doubt it received from Colonel Grant The arti- cle stated that Colonel Long, of the Egyptian service, declared that he had just returned from a visit to the King of Uganda, and he had discovered, to his surprise, that Lake Victoria was a body of water about tw: miles im width! WHAT SAYS M. LINANT DK BELLRFOND? Now, I do know it as a fact that Colonel Long, or Long Bey, was in Uganda July, 1 but ut he states that the Victoria Niyanga is only twelve miles in width he states whatevery snub-nosed urchin in Uganda would deciare to be most astounding nonsense, The width, of twelve miles is what | would give Murehison Bay, & portion of which bay is visible (rom Kibuga, oue of the mperor’s capital, If M. Linant do Belletond, of the syptian service, who d.scovered me im Uganda, is now in Europe, he ts requested to publish his opinion of Lake Victoria, oven trom what Le suw of it from Usavara, The Pall Mail Gazette adds that it was always the opinion of Captain Burton that Speke had cxaggerated the extent of Lake Victoria Last year 1 sent you # map of the southern, eastern, northern and north. west coasts of Lake Victoria Kuclosed in this pack, age you will find a sketch map of tue southwest coast, with Which you may compare Sp hypothetieal outline of the Victoria Lake aud judge for yourselves whether Speke hus been guilty of much exaggeration, HeNRY M. STANLEY. ADDITIONAL DETAILS OF STANLEY'S EXPLORA- TIONS. (From the Boston Journal, August 10.) Tam so much interested to-day in « lewer rece! from a far off trieud that I bave given but litle atu eke’s 34 tion to the Exhibition, You wili pardon me when you know who the friend is, His name is Stanley, and he is still doing yeoman service in the cause of Atrican exploration; thanks to the liberality of those two great papers, the New York Hxenranp and the London Tele- graph, and to bis own indomttable pluck. I feel en- thusiastic about this man, who, at an age when most men are beginning hte, has done so many fine and come. He will pot perish; the fittest are allowed | to survive, and to accomplish their work, The letter | | came via Brindisi and ‘is dated “May 19,” (ean he | | mean May 19 of this year ¥) at the village of Kagehyi, Lake Victoria Niyanza, Stanley in this pleasant mis- | sive, which bears in every line the impress of his ad- | Venturous chatacter, gives a pluitf, familiar statement of is perils and battles by the way and of his present surround) i presume some of the details have been published, but most of them must be new, It will be observed that the explorer makes no reference to the condition of his health, so tat it is tobe pre- sumed that he is well. 1 give such portions of the tet- ter, which is quite long, as think will imterest the general public, They show what American valor and genius for exploration are achieving in the “lost lauds”? while we are celebrating that which we have accom- plished im our petty 100 years. Mr. St y Writes :— . Knapeby! is a straggling village of cone huts, twenty or thirty in number, which are built somewhat in the of acircie, hedged round by afence of thorn twisted between upright stakes Sketch such a Village in your imagination, and let the centre of it be dotted here and there with the forms of Kidlings who prank it with the vivacity of Kidlings under a hot, glowing sun. Let a couple of warriors and a few round-belled childron be seen among them, and near atall but, which is the chiel’s, plant a taller tree, under whose shade sit a few elders in council with their chief, So much tor the village. Iam sure you will know it if_you come this way. Now outside the village, yet touching the fonce, begin to draw the form ofa square camp, about fifty yards equare, each side flanked with low, square huts, under the eaves of which place as many figures of men as you please—for we have many—and you bave the camp of the Anglo- American expedition commanded by your friend and humble servant. From the centre of the camp you may see the Lake Victoria, or that portion of it 1 have cailed Speke Galf, and twenty-five miles distant you may seo table topped Magita, the large island of Urerave, aud toward the northwest a clear horizon, with nothing between water und sky to mar its level, The surface of the lake, whicd approaches to within 100 yards of the camp, 18 much rutiled just at present with a northwest breeze, and though the sun is glowing hot under the shade it is agreeable enough, so that nobody perspires or 1s roubled with the beat You must an- derstand that there 18a vast difference between New York aud Central Atrican heat, Yours is a sweltering heat, begetting longuor and thirst; ours is a dry hi permitting activity and setion without thirst or spiration, If we exposed ourseives to the sun we would feel quite as thoagh we were being baked. Come with me to my lodgings now, 1 lodge in a but but little inferior in size to the chief's In itis stored the luggage of the expedition, whict fills one-half, It iadout six tons in weight, and consists of cloth, beads, wire, sholls, ammunition, powder barrels, port | heroic things and bas made euch rapid progress | in self instruction, He has even found time | while in the African wilda to study science, | and to Qt himself tor great deeds to | | south tributary of Nile 400 Miles from Zanribar 35 man Lograpiie apparatus, scien- ufic instruments, poutgons, sections of boat, &e., &e The other haif ofthe hut fs my sleeping, dining and hall room, It is'as dark as pitch within, tor hght ean- not penetrate the mud with which the wood work is liberally daubed. The floor 1s of dried mud, thickly covered with dust, which breeds fleas and other ver- min, to be a plague to me and to my poor dogs. I have four youth{ul Mercuries, of ebon color, attending me, who on the march carry my personal weapons of offence, I do pot need so many servants to wait ov me, but such is their pleasure. They flod their reward in the liberal leavings of the table, Did they not minister to me they know they would have to subsist on their rations, and black youths have such capacity of ais- tension i their stomachs that would shame the veriest giutton in Earope. If I have a goat Killed tor the European mess halt of it sutlices for two days for us, When it becomes shghtly tainted my Mereuries will beg it and devour it atasingle sitting, Just out- side the door of my hut are about two dozen of my men, squatted in a circle and stringing beads. A necklace of beads is each man daily sum wherewith to bay food. I have now a little over 160 men. Imagine 160 necklaces given or food each day for the last three months; in the aggregate the sum amounis to 14,400 necklaces; in a year it will amount to 53.400 necklaces. A nocklace of ordinary beads is cheap enough in the States, but the expense of carriage makes a necklace here equal to about twenty-five cents in value, For a necklace I"can buy a chicken ora peck of sweet potatoes or halt a peck of grain. 1 left the coast with about 40,000 yards of cloth which, in the States, would bo worth avkut tweive and a dalfconts per yard, or altogether about $5,090; the expense of porterage as far as this lake makes cach yard worth about fifty cont& Two yards of cloth will purchase a goat ora sheep, thirty yards will purchase an ox, tif- teen yards 18 enough to purchase a day’s rations for the entire caravan, ‘These aro a few of the particulars of our more do- mestic affairs The expedition 1 now divided into eight squads of twenty men cach, with an experienced man over each squad, They are all armed with Sny- der's and percussion-lock muskets, A dozen or 80 of the most faithful have a brace of revolvers 1m addition to their other arms. We have four batties since we left the coast, The first occurred in Iturn with a desperate set of Savages, rivalliug the Apaches in ferocity and deter- mination, ‘The battle lasted three days. 1 lost twenty- one men killed. Their Joss was thirty-five killed and some hundred or so wounded, Twice we made a clean sweep throagh their country, burning and destroying everything we came across, and would have liked to exterminate the wretches had not my miSsion required my duty th another airection, On water we were ag successful as on Jand; but, as God is my judgé, 1 would prefer paying tribute and making these savages inends rather than enemies, But some of these people are cursed with such delirous ferocity that we are compelied to defend ourselves. ‘They attack in such numbers and so sudden that our repeating riflus and Snyders have to be handled with such nervous rapidity as will force them back before We are forced to death; for if we allow them to come within forty yards their spears are ag fatal as bullets Just tuink, 1 bad twenty-one men killed in one day and but one wounded! Tho spear makes a frightiul Wound, while their contemptible Jooking arrows are deadly weapons Ihave for the sake of experimen: Sout an arrow almost ciean throu; bullock at twenty aus, iron trunks, plo arrow head is so barbed and gasbed that ita man is wounded a large piece of tortured flesh must be cut out ere it is extracted. We had a narrow escape lately. We were but twelve in our boat's crew, the savages several hundreds, As they came down to attack Lordered the boat to be shoved off, which wag done so rapidly that with the impetus they had given it they were themselves carried into deep water, and only myself in the boat, 1 had to keep the beach clear ofthe ais, and Lemptied my elephant rifle, double barrelled shot gun and revolvers at them, while the men swaim with the boat off shoro in a water infested with crocodiles, None of us, thank fortune, were injured, but each of us had some narrow escape to relate from whizz Singe I left Zanzibar Ihave travelled 720 mile by land and 1,00% miles (by computation) by water, This im six months ts good work. Over 100 positions settled by astronomical observa- tions—for you must ki hat from the very day 1 got my commission, usly prepared to Ot my- self for geographi order that [ might be able to comple ton, Baker and Living- stone’s !abors, w] undone, Now Speke’s work 18 done, wed I have finished, 1 do not know aprehend the drift of this expedition, b You must knot southwest end of the lake he dij Having gazed his f , in 1858, came to the ta, and from a hill near bast body of fresh water, ed to England and wie commissioned Wo fi et, In 1861 and 1362 he marched trom Zat Ugawa, when ho saw the lake again. At the! Falls he saw the lake dise charge itself into ictoria Nile, and went home again imagining had done bis work. If bit work was merely hd the outlet of Lake Victoria he completed his t ut if his task was to discover the sources of the © he had but begun his work He went away witholfdiscoverig the feeders of Lake Vicioria, which 1 reality are the Nile’s sources. Ex- trome southera sources, I mean. Then Baker came to Central Alrica and discovered Lake Albert, He voyaged sixty miles on the lake, and he ran home aise without Knowing anything of the lake’s sources. Burton wert to Taraganiku, eaw it, and returned home without Knowing its extent, outlet or affluents, Livingstone came next to the chain of lakes west of Taraganka, aud died nobly in harness. Well, we are sent to com- plete what these several travellers have begun, While they are content with having discovered lakes, I must be content with exploring these lakes and discovering their sources, end unravelling the complications of geographers at home, It is a mighty work, but a fourth of that work is already done. Untill can say I have done the half, I bid you farewell, HENRY M. STANLEY. It weuld seom as if this were the clearest statement which the young explorer has made since he was first beard from after his long silence. One of the conclud ing paragraphs in tue letter seems to indicate that mary if will protract his stay in Alrica beyond fe time — originally * intended, ‘His theory has always been that a white man may with impunity attempt African exploration, it he does not stay too Jong at a time inthe country. For instance, he was wont to say that at the end of two years aman must go home and get revitalized. Hd was inclined to believe that Livingstone had much in- Jured his powers for good work by remaining too long in Africa, Yet now he hnaseif evidently contemplates remaining much more than two years, and doing a vast amount of work which he Lad not originally tn- tended, Perhapshe has found the climatic dangers less than he fancied they would be, although I remem- ber that when he left on this second expedition he spoke of some slight misgivings as to the possibility of his safeyeturn, He has certamly had some miraculous escapehAana fought several battles Which are not to be despised Knowing how interesting the personal nar- rative of a famous explorer usually is, | have ventured to send you these details, just ae they were written in the familar yen of private correspondence. EDWARD KING, STANLEY AND HIS EXPLORATIONS. [From the Boston Journal, August 11.] The letter received by our Centennial correspondent from Henry M. Stanley, the world known African ex- plorer, is in some respects the most interesting of all those which the public have been so long awaiting from his pen, In the {reedom of personal friendship he has detailed many circumstances ot his exploring life which he might think beneath mention ina news- paper correspondence, but which are exactly the things of interest to most readers, Besides, in this letter Stanley makes a more condensed and lucid statement of the result of his geographical researches than he has given elsewhere as yet. It is true, by one of those shps which are peculiarly provoking from their con nection with important matters, Stanley forgets to re- cord in the date of bis letter the figures for the year— merely writing “May 19”—and it is needless to say that there are no post office stampings in Africa to supply what is missing. The facts narrated, however, const. tute the main thing, Stanley well says that ‘now Speke’s work is done.’? It will be remembered that Speke’s alleged discoveries in 1858 of a great Jake in Central Africa, which he con- jectured to be the real source of the Nile, have been the subjectof much controversy, doubt, and even of ridicule, for nearly eighteen years. Even a second visit, by which Speke saw the outlet of the lake—al- ready named by him Victoria Niyaoza—did but little te strengthen his assertions, because he had really done nothing to explore the lake, nor did he follow down the oatict in order to establish is identity with the Nile The first of these requisites Stanley has sup. plied; he has thoroughly, or with suilicient thorough. ness for all practical purposes, explored Victoria Nie yanza, ascertained its size and its feeders, Itis thus proved to be a body of water sufliciout to be the foun- tain of the Nile, unless tae regarded rather as an en- lurgement of its main tribWtary, which comes up from some (we thousand miles to the southeast, If Stanley should never more be heard from, should be pierced by those savage arrows (rom which bis deadiy “elephant rifle’ bas so effectually protected bim hitherto, this achievemert will forever rank him among the great explorers and discoverers of modern times, He pro- poses, however, much greater adventures and enter. prises, Besides the Lake Victoria Niyanza thereare the Albert Niyanza, the Taragantka (according to the or- thography of Stanley’s letier to King, bat usually written ‘‘Tanganyika’’) and a further series of lakes te the westward, discovered, and barely discovered, by Livingstone, All of these, and their relations to each other and to the Nile, if they have any, remain to be cleared up, aud Stanicy is resolved to undertake the her-- culean work, With regurd to the old and ever new ques. tion of the Nile, ittmay be stated that the weight of evidence 1s now wholly in lavor of Victoria Niyanza being regarded as its inain souree, although sometning rematus to be done th (racing dowa the stream uninter- rupiedly from the lake, The explorations ot Albert Niyanza have confirmed this view by showing it is not so large a body of water as bad been supposed, and that it has no feeders of consequence. But the whole ques- tiou can never be settled till the lake region of C@ntral Arica is thoronguly explored and mapped out. It would sect that Stanley caw do it, if any living man can, and it i 10 be Loped that he will be’ prospered to that end. THE FAS tf MAIL TRAINS, POSTMASTER JAMES’ VIEWS ON THEIR BESTORA- TION BY THE SENATE. Postmaster James was visited by a HxRaLD reporter ta ascertain his Views about the act ot the Senate in regard to fast mail trains, aod expressed himself substantially as follows:—"We are Feady to continue our part of the service the same as ifit never had been interrupted, ‘The men are trained for their duty, and Will go to work the same as if they had enjoyed no vacation. Ihe in+ terruption of the fast mails keenly felt by the peo- ple, Who for some time bad been benelited, and we re- cvived complaints trom mapy quarters. There are some chants, Lowever, I would suggesi— that the Cen- trai tram should leave at five o'clock in the morning justead of a quarter alver four, and that the Pennaylvania Railroad tram should Jeave at nigut. 1 think with proper ecouiomy the sum named in the Post Route bill will be sufficient to defray the expenses of the fast mail service, but it is none too much, Too much praise bannot bo accorded to William H Vanderbilt, the Vice President of the New York trat Railroad, for bis padiic spirit in furthering the views of those who Wished to \ransport the mails ine more rapid manner, Everybody knows it did not pay his road to ran the traius, bus lie agreed to do so notwithstanding. Wanle speaking on this subject L might suggest that the trains should now be run so as to connect with the tW4 o'clock train froin Albany, and thus all New Engiagd com have the New York Hekato by nine o'clock it the morning.” The Postmaster, continuing on general matters, said that he Was gravued to anuounce that the Long Island mail, ually made ap at two o'clock im the afternoon, would, iu a few days, be made ap at six P. M., so as give the terehanis more time to communicate W tueir customers on the “sea-girt shore.’ In relation to the question of the carriers’ pay the Postmaster iso expressed himaelt warmly, sayiug that the appro- priatiou for the payment of the services of this most ellicientand deserving claas should never bave been cut down spears and arrows. \ ~ emeeienameniaereees sinianiieeinitasieem § i f