MR. STANLEY’S AFRICAN EXPEDITION.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4302, 5 January 1875, Page 3

MR. STANLEY’S AFRICAN EXPEDITION.

(From the New York Herald, Oot. 20.) Mr. Stanley, chief of the Herald expedition, organised and equipped for the purpose of completing the unfinished explorations of Hr. Livingstone, will now soon be again in the heart of Africa. Having reached Zanzibar, and having, with his official corps, been accorded a friendly reception by the Sultan, ho will meet with no difficulties in obtaining the needful men, mules and supplies for his expedition. His valuable knowledge, obtained from his first adventure to Ujiji, will serve him well in tiiis campaign. He will know accurately what is wanted in the way of animals, drivers, carriers, pioneers, equipments, provisions and merchandise for purposes of trade with the natives. He will know the road and its dangers and difficulties, and how best to avoid or overcome them. He will know how to secure the friendship and co-operation of the African chiefs era route, and the chief and his people of Ujiji will receive their good friend

Captain Stanley with a hearty welcome. Ujiji will be his second or interior base of operations. Prom this point he will set out for the real work before him, the exploration of the region lying between that system of interior rivers and lakes explored by Livingstone and the established drainage of the wonderful Nile. Stanley believes, as Livingstone believed, that the whole interior system of lakes and rivers, from the seventh degree south latitude, with their general outflow to the northward, are drained into the Nile. Others think that Livingstone’s great interior basin is tributary to the Congo, which flows west into the Atlantic. Sir Samuel Baker, from his last expedition to the great equatorial lakes of the Nile, came away with the information from native traders of the region that the Albert Lake has a navigable connection with Lake Tanganyika, on which Ujiji is situated. These two questions—the drainage of Livingstone’s interior basin, and whether the Tanganyika is or is not to be added to the great equatorial lakes of the Nile—we hope will be settled by Mr. Stanley in the explorations he has undertaken. He goes out with the advantage of many experience from his various African expeditions. He knows the requirements of his present enterprise ; he is qualified and equipped to meet them, and we are 'confident that he will return crowned with complete success.