HOW THE JOURNEY WAS MADE.

The expedition started from Zanzibar November 12, 1875. It consisted of Mr. Stanley, three white men from England, and a great number of guides, porters, women, and children, amounting in all to 356 souls. This large company was rendered necessary not only for defense in case of attack but to carry what passes for money in that land. Silver and gold, and bank bills, are of no value in the heart of Africa. What the people there want is cloth and glass beads and brass wire, and a great many porters were needed to carry enough to purchase supplies along the way. The company, when on the march, stretched along the path for nearly half a mile. You can trace on the map below the course taken. From Baga

moyo, on the main-land opposite the island of Zanzibar, they went to

Mpwapwa, and then northwest to the Lake Victoria Nyanza, which is the great source of the River Nile. Mr. Stanley sailed around the shores of this lake, which, though it is three times as large as the State of Massachu

setts, had been discovered by white men only seven years before. On the northern shore of the Victoria Nyanza is Uganda, whose Emperor, Mtesa, welcomed Stanley and entertained him for many weeks. Unlike most of the natives of Central Africa, the people of Uganda wear considerable

clothing, never appearing naked in the presence of the Emperor. But alas they are deceitful, thievish, and quite regardless of human life. Their Emperor keeps them under control only by fear.

MTESA, THE EMPEROR.,

This Emperor is a remarkable man and a great admirer of white men, of whom he had seen three or four before Mr. Stanley went to Uganda. He has built him a new capitol recently, of which a picture is given on the opposite page. The council-house, or audience-hall, represented below, stands on the corner of the hill, up which a fine avenue has been cut through the rich growth of plantains, and bananas, and fig trees. This

council-house is built of poles and straw, and here Mtesa meets his chiefs. He is a cruel man, and often sends a chief "to eat up," or destroy, some one who has offended him. And yet he seemed greatly interested in what Mr. Stanley told him about Jesus Christ. He asked to hear more about this Saviour, and Mr. Stanley translated a large part of the gospel of Luke into the language of Uganda. Mtesa was so much touched by the story of the Lord who came to earth, that he professed to become a Christian. But he afterwards showed, as a great many not living in Africa do, that though he admired the Lord Jesus he was not disposed to follow him. Yet Mr. Stanley was so much impressed with the possibility of bringing this Emperor and his people to rece've the Christian religion that he sent home an appeal to the philanthropists and pious people of England. "Here, gentlemen, is your opportunity embrace it! The people on the shores of the Nyanza call upon you. Obey your own generous instincts and listen to them; and I assure you that in one year you will have more converts to Christianity than all other missionaries united can number." The English Church Missionary Society answered this call at once, and its missionaries are already in Uganda. It is to be hoped that Mtesa will

live many years, for under another Emperor the missionaries might have a different reception from that given Mr. Stanley.

When the expedition was ready to move on from Uganda, Mtesa fur

nished a large body of natives, numbering 2,100, to accompany Mr. Stanley westward to Lake Muta Nzigè. But the people at this lake were so warlike that Stanley's escort refused to stand by him, and he was obliged

to turn southward, passing through various tribes until he reached Ujiji, on Lake Tanganyika. On his way he met many of the Watuta tribe, a fierce and thievish race, who seem to have no permanent home anywhere. They assault and rob whomever they think they can conquer. These people ap

parently came from the southern part of Africa, and are able to understand the Zulu language

as spoken by our missionaries in Natal. The Watuta are for Africa just what the wandering Bedawin are in Palestine and Arabia.

Since Stanley was at Ujiji, the missionaries of the London Missionary Society have established a station at that place. They expect to be able to reach a great many people who live on the borders of Lake Tanganyika. This is

one of the regions that the missionary Living

stone explored, and it has been visited by several white men. Stanley, after sailing around this lake in the boat which he brought all the way from England, marched on westward till he reached the Lualaba River.

Some of the tribes through which Stanley passed in this section of Africa are cannibals, though they do not kill men for the purpose of eating them. They could not understand why Stanley and his company should care to pass that way. Kassanga, Chief of Ruanda, was reported to have said: "How can the white men be good when they come for no trade, whose feet one never sees, who always go covered from head to foot with clothes. Do not tell me they are good and friendly. There is something very mysterious about them: perhaps wicked." In another place, Uhombo, the people, naked and without shame, gathered about the white strangers, staring at them as if they were creatures from another world. After long gazing they turned away and were heard to say, Yes, these white creatures are men!" Why have they not as much right to question whether we are men as we have to question whether they are?

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THE LIVINGSTONE RIVER.

But the most remarkable thing accomplished by Mr. Stanley in this expedition was his discovery that the Lualaba River, to which he gave the