MR. STANLEY ON LAKE VICTORIA NYANZA.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4586, 1 December 1875, Page 2

MR. STANLEY ON LAKE VICTORIA NYANZA.

A paragraph in our English news states : “ After a long silence despatches have been received by the Daily Telegraph from Mr. Stanley in Central Africa. They are not yet published. He has completely surveyed Lake Victoria Nyanza.” The following notes of the explorer’s progress have been received from Zanzibar, from his friend Mr. Sparhawk, who has quoted them from Stanley's letters :—“Lake Victoria Nyanza, village of Kagehyi, March 4—103 days from Bagomogo.—On the march we lost 181 men by desertion, disease, and war. We have still 166 men left. Desertions have been few compared to deaths. By vaccination I have saved the expedition from smallpox. Lady Alice, boat, after a march of 7‘20miles, is in first-rate order, saving us from the furious flood on the Izambu. Young Pocock, an Englishman, died from typhoid fever. The two large mastiffs, one of which was given by Baroness Burdett Coutts, are both dead, also the retriever Nero. In a war with the natives we lost twenty-one men in one day. We killed fifty of the enemy and wounded several others, burnt their village, and stockaded their cattle.”—“Same village, May 15. Circumnavigated Lake Victoria Nyanza. Have had to fight four times. Discovered about 300 rivers, streams, &c., the extent, length, breadth, and depth all determined. All nearly starved, once nearly drowned, and several times nearly killed by savages. Two of the white men are dead. Fred. Baker died from intermittent fever. Three of my best blacks, Zulu Mango, Mabruki Speke, and Frezolia Christie have just had bad fever. Frank Pocock well and hearty. Kalulu and several others down with ulcers. Best here a few days, and then start the expedition again."