New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-12-15
TWO HEROIC EXPLORERS.
eoRpoN's SUCCESSOR IN THE EQUATORIAL
PROVINCES


PROVINCES
Enfn is an Austrian by birth. He educated as
a physician and was one Of Mdhats advisers at Con-
stantinople. When the Prime Minister was dismissed
the Of the outbreak of the last RussiaTurksh
war; Emin took refuge in Asia. BY pilgrimage he
reached Suakim and made his way 10 khartoum with
caravan. Reduced to very low circumstances he
was introduced General Gordon. who gave him
billet AS >orekeeper, and afterwaTd appointed him
doctor It in that capacity he was found a Lado
BY a traveller in the Equatorial ProvinccS-August
1877 He afterward became surgeon-in-chef on Cen
eral Gorcon's staff EmiD's time was fully engrossed
during the four years he occupied the lost for not
only was he accumulating great scientific collections
and writing elaborate papers" for societies, but he
was repeatedly sent diplomatic missions 10 Uganda
and Unyoro He is expert hnguist, Turkish. Arabic,
German, French italian and English being familiar
languages 10 him, as well many Of the African
dialects
When General Gordon went TO Khartoum as Cover
norGenera of the Soudan, he sent Emin 10 rule over
the Equatorial Provinces. There he has remained TO
this day. During the first three years of his term he
drove out the ave-traders from populous region.
He converted deficiency of revenues into surplus
He conducted the government on the lines marked out
bv General Gordon and equally modest, disnter-
ested and conscientious. When the Mahdfs rcDelnon
broke out a Governor General of another stamp was
al Khartoum. Emin's warning from the remote South
passed unheeded Hicks's army, recruited from
Arabi's demoralized regiments was rlassacrd; the
Fgvptan garrisons throughout the Soudan we're aban-
doncd to their fate; arocous campaigns Of unneces-
sary bloodsbed fought on the seabOad and Cen
era Gordon was sent Khartoum 10 perish miserably
while waiting for relief expedition that cfawled by
slow stages up the Nile, and too late 10 be OF
practical service During all these years Of stupid
misgovernmcnt and wasted blood, Emn remained at
his post when the death OF General Gordon ana the
retreat Of Lord Woseley's army wiped out the last
vestige Of Egyptian rule In the regions OF the upper
Nile the Equatorial Provinces were cut off, neglected
and forgotten Emin has been dependent upon his
own resources in a region encompassed with hostile
tribes. II had chosen TO leave behind thousands
OF helpless and children and to abandon the
people of the Provinces to the mcrces of barbarous
traders, he could easily have cut his way out
10 the Congo or TO Zanzibar with the best of
his troops lie has not made the Egyptian Govern
ments deSeron of him preext for his own deser
tion Of them.
No continuous narrative Of Emin's hardslips and
adventures in the Equatorial Provinces has been
ceiyed in any quarter 1t is known that he had about
600 troops at the outset; that he organized auxiliary
forces OF native soldiers that he was constantly en-
aaced ia warfare with surrounding tribes; that he gar
risoned dozen river stations lying long distances
apart that his ammunition has run low, and that he
has lacked the money needed for paying his small
army and that I'm the face OF manifold difficulties and
DANGERS he has maintained his position, governed the
country we'll and taught the natives how to raise cot
Ton rice indigo and coffee and also how to weave
cloth and 20 make shoes candles soap ana many
articles Of commerce. He vaccina'ed the natives by
the thousand in order 10 stamp out smallpox; he
opened the first hospital known In that quarter he
established regular post-rou'e Win ior'y ohces nc
made important geographical discoveries fl the basin
of the Albert Lake, and In many ways demonstrated
his capacity for governing barbarOus races by the
methods and standards of European civilization The
last European who visited him before staneys arrival
was Dr. Junker the German traveller WHO parted rom
-. 1.
communications with him have been irregular and IN
freouept Letters written by him In October, 1856,
described his geographical discoveries on the shores OF
Albert Lake lie received udings OF staneys eXpe-
dtop in 1887 and I'm November OF thai year went 10
fhe sEe IN tise hope of meeting his deverer there
The last advices flUm him were dated december z,
1887 at which date be had not been J'heu Dy s'IeS
THE STANLEY EXPEDITION
Henry NJ stanley's first laurcls in Africa were won
u ths successful leadsr Of Al e2Deuuon or2aHi]eo