700 LIFE OF DAVID LIVINGSTONE, LL.D. 



ous, well as we knew Mr. Stanley's unfailing resources. But suddenly, as 

 is the way with African posts, the welcome pages come in copiously again 

 from the heart of the wilderness, and we have not only a year's good news 

 now in one large packet, but assurance that our explorer was safe, sound and 

 ready for new deeds of daring no longer ago than the beginning of last 

 June. 



"The present despatches recount the adventures of Mr. Stanley on his 

 return journey from King Mtesa's, and also incidentally complete the circum- 

 navigation of the Victorian Lake. Those which are to come will tell of his 

 third voyage across the great Nyanza to Uganda; of his extraordinary march 

 at the head of a force lent by the king through Kabba Rega's country to the 

 Albert, together with all the remarkable discoveries made upon that journey ; 

 while the concluding letters bring the Expedition safely down through Ka- 

 ragwe to within a fortnight's march of Ujiji, which well-known spot we doubt 

 not Mr. Stanley reached in excellent order, early in June of this present year. 

 We shall speak at a future time of the course which he is likely to take after 

 resting and refitting upon Tanganyika, and of the fruits of these extra- 

 ordinary marches which he has made, since striking into the unknown con- 

 tinent from the Unyanyembe road. The present instalment of his narrative 

 is full enough of incident, everybody will admit, to occupy attention for a 

 day, before we come to the pale-faced tribes, the mighty mountain peaks of 

 Kishakka, the Albert Nyanza, and the mystery of the Land of lakes. Those 

 who love adventure will find it here — fresh, marvellous, and exciting — for 

 fiction itself never conceived situations of deeper danger, or told of narrower 

 escapes, than Mr. Stanley experienced upon this inland sea which he had 

 mapped ; and every one of these letters comes to us through perils and risks 

 innumerable, the gift of a brave and faithful traveller, who has faced death in 

 every form in order to discharge his duty to those who have commissioned 

 him and to his generation. 



"It will be seen that after quitting the northern shores of the Nyanza 

 to rejoin his camp — left in charge of Frank Pocock — Mr. Stanley was deserted 

 by the ' Admiral ' of Uganda, and sailed alone in the ' Lady Alice ' down the 

 south-western coasts, of which we to-day present his map, completing the 

 chart of this wonderful freshwater sea. The narrative is taken up at the 

 mouth of the Kagera River, about which hereafter our explorer has curious 

 things to announce. The rude reception which the Lady ' Alice ' met at Ma- 

 kungo was but a warning of the treacherous hostility which she was to experi- 

 ence further down at the hands of the natives of Bambireh Island, and which 

 might well have resulted in a massacre of Mr. Stanley and his eleven negroes. 

 At Kajuri, a populous village of this large island, happened the ugly adven- 

 ture which so nearly put an end to the New African Expedition. The escape 

 of the explorer reads like a book of the ' Odyssey,' both for the extremity of 



