The Osceola times. [volume] (Osceola, Ark.) 1870-current, 1888-07-28
THE WHITE PASHA.

The Specuistions Concerning the white
rsshs OF Bahr n GhaEei Point to stan
ley as the Myste.lous Individual : OnicisI
| News Can Not Long he Delayed, and IL
Anxiousiy Awaited.
LONDON. July e3-sir Francis De-
Winter, president OF the Emin Bey relief
association, in an interview regarding
the statement Of Sir Richard Burton, the
African explorer, that the white pasha
who has arrived in the Bahr ell Ghazel
province is Emin Boy and not Henry NJ.
Stanley, said: "The last authoritative
news we received stated that Emin Bey
was at the wadelai on the Nile, and we
know that Stanley left the Congo on his
march toward Emin. just year ago, and
in few days Stanley had vanished
from the sight OF the civilized world.
Stanley hoped to be in commune alton
with Emin Bey the 18th OF last August.
In letter dated November2 2, Emin stated
that up to that date he had heard nothing
whatever Of Stanley or his exped ,tion.
Recently, certain Arabs, returning from
the mountainous region Of the Upper
Aruwimi. told the commander at the
camp of Yambunga that they had met de-
serters from the expedition, among them
being two Soudenese, who formed part of
the escort Other information Is said to
have reached YamDunga from deserters,
of whom one had returned to a village
only a few leagues distant from the
camp. But in neither case have the des.
erts themselves been seen, and it may be
taken for granted that the Arabs. who
want to reserve Central Africa exclusive
| ly for themselves as a kind of human
Il -. II.
opportunity Of spreading exaggerated i'll
news about the fate OF the expedition.
Stanley undoubtedly intended, il he met
with no serious obstacle, to relieve Emin
Bey first and then proceed to
Khartoum to rescue the unfortunate
European prisoners there. Now, unless
this 'whi,e pasha" story is an absolute
fgment, the ''white pasha" can be no one
but Stanley, hut IL it be Stanley, some-
thing extraordinary has happened.
Stanley set ont from Aruwimi last June
for the Albert Nyanza. When he got
there, he meant to put his steel whaling
boat together and to set out northward by
water for Wadelai. Now he has turned
up in province some hundreds of miles
to the northward OF that place, and in
stead of marching Ave hundred miles, he
must have marched something like a
| thousand What has happened,
| When the bearers OF the last
authentic news from Stanley left the
exp sdition last August he was swamped
within eight days march of the Mabode
country. and advancing directly towards
the western shore of the Albert Nyanza
He was only about two hundred miles
from that lake nearly year ago. The
lake was his goal, and now we hear Of
him In the Bahr f. GhazsL We can only
suppose that he found the country be-
tween the Upper Aruwimi and the Albert
Nyanza nothing but vast morass, and
absolutely impossible. Last summer
Emin sent two parties of ten men
each TO the Albert Nyanza to
get news Of Stanley. They have
found none, or Emin would have given it.
II looks, therefore, as If Stanley had been
obliged to change his object altogether,
and had turned northwest from the Ma
bode country, instead OF following the
line he had previously taken, and press
ing on towards the East What facts
are known, therefore, point to the gem
eral conclusion that, after pushing east
northeast from Yambunga for some two
or three hundred miles, Stanley found
further progress impossible along that
line, and set his face northwards. In
stead of coming upon Emin from the
south, he will come upon him from the
north, but if h does in the long run come
upon him somehow, that will not mat
ter"
Further information from Banana re-
ceived late this afternoon tends to con-
firm the report that Stanley is really on
his way to Khartoum. 1t also appears
that Emin Bey has left tho neighbour
hood of the Albert Nyanza and is advance
ing to meet Stanley. The probability OF
the success OF Stanley in relieving Khar-
toum is regarded with downright jealousy
in military circles Lord Charles Beres-
ford, who took part in the disastrous Nile
expedition, admits the possibility of the
white pasha beirfg Stanley, and in giving
his reasons why an undisciplined body,
chiefly composed OF natives, should be
able to accomplish feat which proved
too much for the Nile expedition, said !;
at must be borne in mind that since that
expedition great changes have come over
the state OF Africa. Then the whole sur
rounding country was frantically devoted
to the Mahdi. Now, IL we are TO believe
the reports which have recently reached
Cairo from the European cap
tives ard from Information de-
rived from other sources, great
dissatisfaction against the false
prophet prevails, and at the first approach
of hostile force his followers are said TO
be prepared TO go over to the enemy. In
my opinion, IL the white pasha Is really
Stanley he has undoubtedly some time
since captured Khartoum and Official
q oh, I..,,g la,
delayed.