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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2610, 21 May 1877, Page 2

By this mail we hnve received copies of The Daily Telegraph containing further dispatches from Mr H. M. Stanley, the special commissioner of The Daily Telegraph and New York Herald iv Central Africa. Of these letters tlie former journal remarks :—"Mr Stanley has made a complete survey of Lake Tanganyika, and settled the question of Lukuga, -which Commander Cameron supposed to be its outlet.-The re/elations upon

this head are of the ri'ost. curious and complete nature. Mr. Stanley has apparently determined the problems of outlet and level, and made remarkable discoveries besides at the northern end of the lake, where he has found a spacious gulf, henceforth to be known by the name of Captain Burlon, the original discoverer of the Tanganyika, Cameron, as the letters w il' indicate, was both right and wrong in his announcements. In another letter he describes at length the general purport of discoveries at and about the Nyanzas, especially touching that main source of the Nile to which, and its feeding iaVe, he gives the name of Alexandra. in honour of Her Royal Highness the Pri \cess of Wales. His last letter, dated Ujiji, August 13, reports, unfortunately, a deplorable outbreak of small-pox and /ever in that station, which obliged him to prepare for an early departure. The indomitable explorer proposed to cross the country to Nyangwe, and there to determine his final course. Mr Stanley and his English attendant, Frank Pocock —whom ho most warmly praises—had both suffered from illness, but were much better." Theso letters are full of interesi/icg details, and will be perused with avidity by those who have read the former contributions of the intrepid explorer. They will be published in these columns at early, dates, and the accompanying maps can be inspected by those who take a closer interest in Mr Stanley's discoveries.