Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1878-12-07

| eooo OF travel N africa under ~ O0oe
conditions; tAsG 10 70 say. through .
country fairly known, which hes been
visited by white men, and 10 now ira
versed by frequent caravans. Some
times they crossed ''broad and bleak
pssins, where food was scarce and
cloth vanished fast," and sometimes
they eSme to billy countries, where the
people we're civil and hospitable.
Sometime. they were in troublesome
districts; wh-Io there were warning
tribes, where the people were treacher-
Gus or hostile, and then Stanley could
only sleep with his hand on his rife.
There were furious tempests, land
some days nature and man alike
varied against Ms. while on others
both seemed combined 10 bless us."
Other troubles came to the intrepid
commander and his small army,
more especially that potent and
untiring enemy of all African travel
typhus. This vas the enemy who ne.
nAnced Stanley at Zanzibar, and never
left his footsteps until no embarked at
Loands; who followed him night and
day, doing his awful will upon the ex-
petition. And SO from these misfor.
tunes-from famine and fatigue. from
fever and massacre, from mutiny and
death-the little army dwindled away;
and it il q wonder that it did not return,
or ct least content itself with visiting
Livingstone's country and exploring
Victoria N'yansa, and return with the
report which has been brought for 90
many centuries-that Africa continued
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and would not be won. Nor does it
surprise us that, amid all these dis
couragements, the heart of Stanley
should have faltered. 1.-THE expedition
seemed doomed. Promises of reward,
kindness, threats, punishments, had no
effect" But at the same time the
spirit OF the leader was feit.in the COM
mand. 1.-THE white men," he says,
although selected out of the ordinary
class Of Englishmen, did their work
bssvely, heroically. Though suffering
from fever and dysentery, insulted by
natives, marching under the heat and
equatorial transforms, they at all times
proved themselves of noble, manly ma
lures. stout-hearted, brave, and, better
than all, true Christians" These are
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but for them there was no empire but
the memory Of duty we'll done; no
trophy, nc reward, unless what is to
come as the reward for well-doing in
the finsl day of account. Two of them
were to sleep near the banks Of Victoria
N'yansa victims of disease, the other
was to be whirled into eternity over
the rapids of the Congo, when his Jour
ney was almost at an end.
Sometimes Stanley was in the wilder
ness without guides. This, however,
seemed a happiness compared to his
position whom he did have guides who
betrayed him, as happened early in his
expedition in Ukimbu, near the ele.
plant country. In Ukimbu the guides
ran away, and Stanley found himself
on the edge Of wilderness with but
ten days provisions. He had trusted
his guides, and purchased q small
quantity of food. He endeavored to
pierce the wilderness, but his track was
lost in maze of elephant and rhin-
oceros trails. He could only depend
upon his compass. The second day
found . jungle OF acacia and euphor-
bia, through whioh tho mon had -
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under natural tunnels of embracing
shrubbery, cutting the colvolvuli and
creepers, thrusting aside stout thorny
bushes, and by various detours taking
advantage of every slight opening the
Jungle afforded" There was no water.
Overcome with hunger and thirst, the
command began to straggle and faint.
Some managed to reach camp, where
medicines and restoratives brought them
strength. Five never returned. One
of them was found dead in the woods,
and Of the other four it is believed
they hopelessly wandered on until they
also fell down and died." On the fifth
day they came to a village. but the
village comprised only four negroes,
their wives and little ones, and had
no food for such large command.
Stanley learned that there was another
village twenty five miles away, named
Suna, and he sent o picked band of
twenty, the strongest and most endur
ing, to visit Suna and bring food. He
secured the woods for game, but there
was no game. A lions den was found.
In this den were two young lions,
which were killed and skinned. But
OF WQ0C 0V0ll W0r0 Two lOu CuDS 10 an
expedition of starved men? Surely
here was death at last death, defeat.
humiliation; and this proud expedi-
ton which had set out SO gloriously
from Zanzibar, resolved to force the
mystery of continent and fight its way
to the Atlantic, why, all that could
happen to it was to perish in an African
jungle Of lions and elephants, to perish
rs so many had done before, leaving
only the name of Stanley to be added
to the sad. dismal role of martyrs to
African discovery. Returning to
camp" says Stanley, ''from the fruit
less hunt"--nothing in all that wilder
ness but the two lion cubs--"I was so
struck with the pinched faces Of my
poor people that I could have almost
wept. il ! might have done so without
exciting fear Of our fate in their minds.
I resolved to do something toward re-
ieving the pressing needs of fierce
hunger" Stanley had medical stores,
which in such an expedition are 81
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