The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1889-01-01
JANUARY l, 1889.
WHERE Is HENRY NJ. STANLEY ?

News from the heroic explorer is still
waited for. Now that his lot is so close
" linked with that OF the brave and
faithful Emin Pasha, Germany and Eng
land. as well as America, wait for intelli-
genee with an anxious interest, unequal
led since Gordon's fate hung on Wolse-
lev's belated expedition to khartoum.
Stanley left Yambuya, his last camp on
the Congo navigation, on the 2Sth OF
June, 1887. He had to traverse an I'M
known region to Wadelai on lake Albert
Nvanza. This was five hundred miles
distant in straight line. The last word
from HIM was dated Jnly 18th, three
weeks later. For seventeen months the
outer world has had no word from him.
But neither has any intelligence come
from Emin since November ID, 1887.
The depths OF the Dark Continent are
not given to transmitting intelligence.
Sir Samuel Baker was not heard from
lOI thcull -llluc lnOilluc, anu hO hhu
four steamers with him on the Nile
branches.
Two uncertain reports had TRANSFERRED,
however. The latest and most definite
was by Arab traders who are said to
have encountered SANKEY'S rear guard
in November, 1887, some two hundred
and twenty miles west OF Wadelai. He
was said TO have two hundred and fifty
men remaining out OF the four hundred
with which he started from Yambuya,
and to be confident OF getting through
in short time The other report came
by way of khartoum on the Nile. A
White Pasha " was known by general
report throughout the Nile basin, to be
fighting his way down the Bahr-el-Gazal.
Nearly all the best authorities agree in
the belief that such report could arise
from nothing else than the progress OF
SANKEY'S powerful force through the in
terror The name "White Pasha" would
the more naturally be given TO the COM
mander of fifty white men.
In the December number OF the North
American Review, is a symposium OF
four articles upon SANKEY'S whereabouts,
written by Lord Wolseley and three
other specialists upon African matters.
They show a remarkable coincidence OF
opinion. They all agree that Stanley is
the White Pasha ;" all think that he
probably joined hands with Emin early
in the present year, and all consider his
return and communications to be seri
ously impeded He must lack force and
means Tor returning over the difficult
Congo route. The Dervish lower on the
Nile route must be too formidable for
any attack in which Emin and Stanley
can unite. The remaining route to the
Eastern coast has for year been
blocked by hostile tribes, and lately the
whole interior OF that coast has broken
into violent hostilities in consequence OF
German aggression.
There appears therefore to be cause for
almost as much anxiety as to how STAN
ley is to emerge from the interior, as
even to learn how he Jared in reaching
Emin. The latter, resolute chief OF the
Soudan that he is, repels all thought OF
forsaking his post. Stanley is rich in
experience and resource. Unless his
rare skill and courage now fail to bring
his wonted good fortune, we shall in due
time hail his temperance with fresh
chapter OF great adventures hardly sur
passed by his immortal transit down the
Congo.
Since the above was written, the Ma
Tiposa brings an apparently reliable re-
port that Emin has been defeated and
made captive by the Mahdi, and with
him traveller who is probably Stanley.
The latter would, OF course, have stood
by Emin, and have shared his fate. The
calamitous condition OF those two heroes
appeals loudly to the Christian nations
for succor. What can be done for them,
and what will be done, are questions Tor
whose answer we must anxiously wait.