. Stanley and the white heroes in Africa; being an edition from Mr. Stanley's late personal writings on the Emin Pasha relief expedition ... undred and forty-one of their number in this manner. *Out of respect to the first British prince Avho has shoAA^nan interest in African geography, Ave have named the south-ern Nyanza—to distinguish it from the other two Nyanzas—the Albert Edward Nyanza. It is not a very large lake. Com-pared to the Victoria, the Tanganyika, and the Nyassa, it issmall, but its importance and interest lie in the sole fact thatit is the receiver of all the streams at the sou
. Stanley and the white heroes in Africa; being an edition from Mr. Stanley's late personal writings on the Emin Pasha relief expedition ... undred and forty-one of their number in this manner. *Out of respect to the first British prince Avho has shoAA^nan interest in African geography, Ave have named the south-ern Nyanza—to distinguish it from the other two Nyanzas—the Albert Edward Nyanza. It is not a very large lake. Com-pared to the Victoria, the Tanganyika, and the Nyassa, it issmall, but its importance and interest lie in the sole fact thatit is the receiver of all the streams at the southwestern or leftNile basins, and discharges these waters by one river, the Sem-liki, into the Albert Nyanza, in like manner as Lake Victoriareceives all streams from the extremity of the southeastern orright Nile basin, and pours these Av^aters by the Victoria Nileinto the Albert Nyanza. These two Niles, amalgamating inLake Albert, leave this under the well-knoAvn name of WhiteNile. Regarding the punishment Avhich Avas meted out to the treach-erous officers, Mr. Stanley says: * The rebels of Emin Pashas government relied on their. THE KETURN MARCH OF STANLEY AND EMIN. 805 craft and the wiles of the heathen Chinee, and it is ratheramusing now to look back and note how punishment has fall-en on them. Was it Providence or luck? Let those who loveto analyze such matters reflect on it. Traitors without thecamp and traitors within were watched, and the most activeconspirator was discovered, tried, and hanged; the traitorswithout fell afoul of one another, and ruined themselves. Ifnot luck, then it is surely Providence, in answer to good mensprayers far away. * Our own people, tempted by extreme wretchedness and mis-ery, sold our rifles and ammunition to our natural enemies, theManyuema slave-traders true friends, without the least grace ineither their bodies or souls. What happy influence was it thatrestrained me from destroying all those concerned in it? Eachtime I read the sto
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