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sequently to that date, an attack by Arabs upon the party 

 resulted in its temporary disorganization and a serious inter- 

 ruption to its labors. 



The American party has also been doing good work. Re- 

 inforcements were sent out, under the direction of the Ameri- 

 can Palestine Exploration Society, from New York, on the 

 1 9th of June, on board of the steamer Celtic. The party 

 consisted of Colonel J. C. Lane, of Brooklyn, commanding 

 the expedition, J. Harvey Trent, of Lawrence, Massachusetts, 

 and Professor Selah Merrill, of Andover. They were to be 

 joined in Europe by Mr. Rudolph Meyer, who has preceded 

 the party to make some preliminary arrangements. They 

 took out a large supply of engineering instruments of Amer- 

 ican make, and will remain two years in Palestine, the ex- 

 penses being guaranteed by the friends of the society. 



Africa. The interest in the exploration of this part of the 

 world centres mainly around the labors of Mr. H. M. Stanley 

 and of Lieutenant Cameron. It will be remembered that 

 after his successful search for Dr. Livingstone, Mr. Stanley 

 returned to the United States, and subsequently undertook 

 a second exploration of the interior of Africa under the joint 

 auspices of the London Daily Telegraph and the New York 

 Herald. Starting in at Zanzibar in 1873, Mr. Stanley reached 

 the Victoria Nyanza in 103 days, after a march of 720 miles, 

 having experienced great hardships on the route, and the loss 

 by disease and fighting with the natives of more than half 

 his party. In further detail of this trip it is to be mentioned 

 that at the village of Muhalala, in the district of Usandawi, 

 the guides whom he had engaged at Ugogo deserted and 

 left him in the wilderness. The march thence was an ex- 

 tremely trying one, and six of his men died ; and when he at 

 last reached Uveriveri the whole of his men were exhausted 

 by hunger and fatigue. Failing to obtain sufficient supplies 

 at this point, Stanley sent twenty of his party to Suna for 

 a supply of grain. They succeeded in their mission ; but 

 during their absence two more men died. 



On the 21st of January Stanley reached the village of 

 Vinyata, in the district of Iturn, and in the valley of the 

 Liwumba River, which he considers the most' southerly 

 source of the Nile known. It flows toward the west, and 

 where he reached it there were numerous villages surrounded 



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