916 LIFE OF DA VID LIVINGSTONE, LL.D. 



continue, from Mr. Stanley's own communications, the story of his remark- 

 able discoveries. Our last despatches, dated in May of 1876, had brought 

 him into the vicinity of Ujiji on Tanganyika, after the thorough navigation 

 of the Victoria Nyanza, the stay at King Mtesa's Court, and the interesting 

 explorations of the country lying between the Victoria and Albert Lakes. 

 In June of 1876 the joint Commissioner of ' The Daily Telegraph ' and ' New 

 York Herald ' reached the well-known Arab town of Ujiji, the resting-place 

 of so many travellers ; and, while there recruiting the strength of his expedi- 

 tion, which had traversed such immense distances, he himself prepared to 

 circumnavigate the great inland sea discovered by Speke and Burton. He 

 still had with him, apparently, that wonderful little vessel the Lady Alice, 

 which, built upon the Thames and transported by steamer to Zanzibar, has 

 since been carried over almost as many miles of dry land as she has traversed 

 by water. He also appears to have received so much of the intelligence 

 which we had forwarded as to a quaint him with Cameron's researches and 

 his march across Africa. 



" Rightly conceiving therefore that it was his duty to employ the leisure 

 time at Ujiji in correcting or confirming the statement made by that gallant 

 officer about the outlet of the Tanganyika, and having in his excellent little 

 vessel a command of the water which no native canoe could give, Mr. Stanley 

 lost no time in launching for the voyage, and spent part of June and all 

 July of last summer in thoroughly exploring the coasts of the lake. It has 

 now at last, and now only, been completely circumnavigated; for the traveller 

 started southwards from Ujiji, and not only searched every bay and sailed to 

 the very end of the basin — instead of, as Cameron did, crossing the bights 

 and missing the Liemba termination of nineteen miles — but, sailing north- 

 wards along Uguha and Ugoma, he visited and settled the question of the 

 Lukuga, and finally came round at the northern extremity to the point which 

 he had reached in 1871 with Dr. Livingstone, in the voyage from Ujiji, thus 

 securing for himself the indisputable distinction of having been the first to 

 coast the entire body of water. 



" Among many other interesting discoveries, Mr. Stanley has found that 

 Ubwari in the north is no island, but a peninsula enclosing a deep and splen- 

 did bay, which, with great propriety, he has named after the distinguished 

 explorer who with Speke first saw and reported this African fresh-water sea. 

 Our Commissioner had already given the name of ' Speke Gulf to the very 

 similar inlet of the Victoria Nyanza which runs under the island of Ukerewe. 

 It is creditable to him, and a great pleasure to ourselves, thus to have the 

 names of famous Englishmen imperishably connected with the results of 

 their labours ; and in the second despatch, which we shall have the satisfac- 

 tion of publishing on Thursday next, it will be found that our Commissioner 

 lays in a like spirit at the feet of Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales 



