New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-11-25
,TANLEY ILL AND HELPLESS.
lying AT THE POINT OF DEATH.
FOR TWENTY. EIGHT DAYS HE SUffhkhD
FROM A DREADFUL ILLNESS

FOR TWENTY. EIGHT DAYS HE SoffhNND
FROM A DREADFUL ILLNESS.
RECOVERY THE HoMEwARD MARCH WAS
BFeUN-THE DOWNFALL OF EMlNs wv
FRSMESr AND THE DOOM OF THE
REBE1s-D1scovERY AFTER DIS
oovERy IN THE HEART OF
ArR1cA-A LETTER TO
FRIEND IN LONDON.
Ionson. Nov. 24.-Mr Marstoh' Oh oainpSoH' % ho"
g. 70 has received q letter from iehrS W. ''dn-
L., do,ed south end Victoria Nyanza' Sep'emoer
. frou which the following extracts were taken
The rebels Of the Emin Government relied upon
,hsir craft and on the wiles of the heather
Chinee and il is amusing now TO look back and
note how punishment has fallen on them. Was 1t
r,ovidence or was il luck? Let those
WIN love to analyze such matters reject
on IL Traitors without camp and traitors within
wore watched and the most active conspirator
WAS discovered, tried and hanged. The traitors
without II foul of one another and ruined
themselves If it is not luck, then it Is surely
Providence in answer 10 good mems prayers.
Far away, our own people, tempted by Their
extreme wretchedness and misery, sold our
rifles and ammunition TO our natural
true friends without the least grace. either of
bodies or souls What happy influence was it
thar restrained me from destroying all concerned
in il? Each time L read the story of Nelson's ana
Parkes's suiferings. l feel vcXed at my forbear-
ance and yet again l feel thankful for hlgher
power than mans, which severely afflicted 'hem
with cold-booded murders by causing them 10
fall up.n one another few weeks aI'er uiio
rescue and relief of Nelson and Parkes Inc ineni'
.1t otn1T har
me.
AT THE OUTSKIRTS OF BLESSED ClNllA AAAIiO.
With the rescue of Emln Pacha, poor olu O''|''-
md those who preferred Egypts tieshpots 10 UIe
coarse plenty of the province near NyahA' We
returned and while we were patiently Waltlhg lDc
doom of the rebels was cOnsummated Slhce un'"
time of anxiety and unhappy outlook nave oecn
Mt the point Of death from dreadful Illness ne
strain had been too much, and for twenty eight
DAYS / lay helpless, tended by the KlhulS anu
skilful hands of Surgeon Parkes. Then httie oy
1t,le gathered strength. and finally gave orders
for the march for home
Discovery after discovery in the wonderful
ngion was made-the snowy ranges of Ruevenzohi'
the Cloud King or Rain Creator, the SemliIn hlNer'
the Albert Edward Nyanza, the plains OF Noon
cora the salt lakes of Kative, the new peoples OF
the Wakonju or Great Mountains, the dwellers
Of the rich forest region, the Awamba'
the fne-featured Wasonyora the wan
voro bandits. and then Lake Albert Edward,
the tribes and shepherd races of the Eastern
uplands. then Wanyakor besides the Wanyar'-
wanda and Wazinja until at last came TO
church, whose cross dominated Christian
settlement and we knew had reached the
outskirts OF bkssed civilization"
ANOTHER LETTER FROM THE ExPLoHkh.
AFR Mackinnon. the chairman of the Emin Re
lief Committee, has received letter from oIihie5
n is dated August and was written at hafurro
an Arab settlement on the Karagwe. 1t begins
NV last report was sent of by Salm Ben
Mahomet in the early part of September. 1888.
Over year full of stirring events has taken
place since then. l will endeavor TO
inform YOU what has occurred" Stanley goes on
10 recount the arrangements made by him to meet
Tmip and after describing how he hunted up the
missing rear column, continues;
Il have already told You that the rear column
was in deporable state; that out
of the 100 members remaining / doubted
whether fifty would live 10 reach the
lake. but having collected a large number Of
canoes the goods and sick men were transported
in these vessels in such smooth and expeditions
manner that there remarkably few casualties
in the remnant Of the rear column. But wild
natives having repeatedly defeated the UgarrOw-
was raiders, and by this discovered
the extent of their own strength gave consider
hble trouble and inflicted considerable loss
among our best men, who had always 10 bear
the brunt of the fighting and the fatigue OF
- padding However, had no reason 10 be
dissatisfied with the time we had made When
progress by river became too tedious and difficult
order cast off canoes given. This was four
days journey above the UgaTOwwas Station. or
about 800 miles above Banalaya. We decided
that as the south bank of the Itura River
wall 10 ho npSf A fry
the north bank, although should have 10
traverse for some days the despoiled lands which
had been a common centre for the Cgarrowwas
and KilCngaangas bands of raiders. We were
about 90 miles from Grassland, which orencd
up prospect Of future feasts of beef, veal and
mutton and pleasing variety of vegetables,
well oil and butter for cooking
WAITING THE RETURN OF THE ToRAGERs.
Here the writer describes daily conflicts with the
Wambutti dwarfs, which he found very numerous
in this region The Wambuttis clung to the
northeast route, which Stanley wanted 20 take
Accordingly, he went southeast and followed ele-
plant tracks lie says Bat Oh December
we were compelled to halt for forage in the mid
die Of vast forest at spot indicated bv my
chart 10 be not than two or three miles
from Ituri River, which many of our people had
zen While we resided at Fort Bodo sent $50
rifes back TO a settlement that fifteen miles
back on the route we had come while many Man
yema followers also undertook 10 follow them
quote from my journal part Of what ] wrole
on December a. the sixth day Of the absence Of
the ioragers:
Six days transpired since our fora9ers left
for the first four days the time passed rapidly,
might say almost pleasantly, being occupied
IN fecaculatng my observations from Ugarrowwa
10 Lake Albert, down 10 date, owing TO a few
discrepancies here and there, which my second