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After completing this work, Stanley started with a force of 140 
porters for Nyangwa, the farthest northern point attained by Liv- 
ingston or Cameron, carrying his boat, the Lady Alice, with him — 
in sections. Stanley reached this place in November, 1876, after 
a journey of about 350 miles in forty days; in itself, a remark- 
quently the most sagacious conclusions, founded upon what 
seemed to be the most trustworthy information, have not only 
been attended by failure, but with the most disastrous results, can 
fully appreciate what Stanley undertook, and the hazard he ran in- 
determining to follow the Lualaba river in its northerly course. 
The river ran to the north, apparently in the direction of the 
sources of the Nile. He had Livingstone’s conviction that it 
was the remote source of that river. To follow the river, how- 
ever, in its northerly course, might lead him, if his theory shoul 
not be verified, into the interior of Northern Africa, where he 
would be, with a large body of followers, without supplies, and 
in a state of utter destitution. He appreciated the great risk he 
ran, but after fully considering it, he came to the bold determina- 
accordingly started to follow the river to the north. He reached — 
the Atlantic coast in August, 1877, having made a journey from 
Uyangwa down the river to its mouth, a distance of about 1,800 — 
miles, passing on the way fifty-seven cataracts. ee 
Nhen we saw Mr. Stanley here in the society, his hair was — 
black; it is now said to be entirely white. Of the 350 men with 
whom he left Zanzibar, in 1874, only 115 reached the Atlantic 
coast, and 60 of these, when at the journey’s end, were suffering 
from dysentery, scurvy and dropsy. He was on the Congo trom 
fovember 1, 1876, to August 11, 1877,—a period of over mine — 
months; so that his promise to the native followers was fulfilled, 
that he would reach the sea before the close of the year. ee 
It remains only to refer to the geographical knowledge which 
has been obtained by this remarkable exploration. The entire — 
by Livingstone, who discovered it, Bangwelo. Descending be- 
yond 17° E. longitude, the Congo spreads out into an enormous — 
breadth, and then slowly contracts between hills, when 1t thunders s 
down, steep after steep, for 180 miles, and then flows as the ma- 
