The Congo Administration state positively that Mr. H. M. -Stanley,
after a long stay with Emin Pasha on the Eastern shore of the Victoria Nyanza, left his comrade on the Lake, and began forcing his way towards Mombassa, which he is expected to reach about the end of October next. The march will be a terrible one, but, if it is accomplished, we shall at least thoroughly know the route from the Lake to the coast, and Mr. Mackenzie, at Mombassa, will be able to join hands with Emin Pasha, and perhaps, in conjunction with him, to set up some kind of dominion in the interior which will protect the construction of our first necessity, a practicable and safe road from the coast to the Lake. Once established there, steam and the rifle will soon do their educative work, and reduce the country from Mombassa to the Nile to endurable order. Mr. Stanley is the greatest of African ex- plorers, but even he has not solved in the least the problem of establishing communications. He goes into space, and comes back out of the blue.
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