| Show LECTURE ON THE NILE after an adjournment of two weeks the students society convened last friday evening evening at the social hall instructor J J walton presiding after singing by the college male glee club a selection entitled hall silent night Nigh tand aad the invocation a piano solo entitled I 1 caprice Hon grois was rendered by miss cumorah smith mr 0 B R savage then gave his on the solution of the nile mystery the speaker referred to the mystery which anciently involved the sources of the nile also to the tradition that that large volume of water originated in some of the mountains existing in the moon A general topographical outline of africa was then given and brief reference made to the most important explorers of the dark continent the great adventurer stud and explorer dr david livingston was hopken of as a god fearing kanand of his bis being inspired by an heavenly influence to perform the work which he did his character a brief sketch of his life his travels and his discoveries co in africa were delineated and of his being lost to the world during the years 1869 70 71 while in the hearton africa investigating the sources of the congo mention was made of the anxiety which prevailed the world over concerning the sudden disappearance of livingston and of the proposition made to mr henry M stanley by mr james gordon bennett of the new york herald to go to africa and find him mr stanley accepted the proposition ro tion and said 1 I will find him god being my helper the life and character of stanley were laconically treated upon the lecturer mentioning the principal events of his life at the age of fifteen years he became a school teacher worked his p passage across the atlantic as a cabin boy to new orleans his return to england his account of the Ablai abyssinian nian aarand the part taken under general wolseley in the ashantee war attention was wan next drawn to the natives of africa of their vast number there being south of loo north latitude of their secluded condition their ignorance and their wild and barbaric state zanzibar was referred to as possessing semi ng the scum and the of the whole continent as well as all elements necessary for the production of a hades in very deed it was h here that stanley landed and with natives and with three or four white men proceeded towards the interior in search march of livingston lii in three months he be reached with 31 the others having died along the route from here traveled westward to lake tanganyika and upon the banks of this lake he found the object of his search david livingston stanley endeavored to persuade the old gentleman to return to england but it was of no avail he livingston had an object in view that of solving the mystery of the nile after the two adventurers had bad explored lake tanganyika stanley returned home leaving the lh old gentleman to continue his explorations pl orations the death of livingston was referred to he having died while in the attitude of prayer the drying of his bis body and its burial in the westminster abbey andoe and of stanley being one of his pall bearers the second call upon stanley to go and finish the work of livingston Livin griton was made by the publishers of the new york herald and the london times aines irrespective of the cost ot such an undertaking stanley once more set out for the dark continent and procuring men at zanzibar marched towards the interior he circumnavigated circum navigated lake victoria and was in sight eight of the mountains of the moon but did not see them because of their being covered with clouds a peculiarity characteristic of those mountains from lake victoria he retraced his steps westward to the rt river ver which is the head waters of the congo and upon whose waters he had sailed down to Ona nyema falls before he be marched westward to lake victoria not knowing this to be the congo he was undecided as to whether he could continue his course down dow n the river or return and go up again agai u however after considerable deliberation b be 0 determined at all hazards to go down and explore the river the dangers which he had to encounter were spoken of and the loss of of his men through the privations and sufferings which they had to benjure finally after going many miles down the river he was told that it was the congo his joy was great and he forthwith continued his journey to the mouth having the conciliation and honor of being the first to trace the congo from its ite bead waters to its mouth a distance of miles and of making several other ether very important discoveries disco he returned home but was soon called U upon n a again ain t to 0 go to the relief of eruin P pasha h abbo who w wae as held captive at K khartoum bar the egyptian government sustaining sustaining half the cost and furnishing men and theother the other halaby half by some private english noblemen his route was along the congo he having with him a body of meu men plenty of food ammunition and everything necessary for the accomplishment of his work he found emin who was dufferin suf suffering ferin very much being held captive by bis is own men stanley released him and returned home having accomplished successfully his third mission to the african continent the chairman in behalf of the society thanked brother savage for his bis lecture and also all those who had taken part iu in the evenings exercises |
