Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-11-02

their ''medicinsas A common man b
allowed to die without much disturb
ancs. bat. u chief gets very sick. q
least enc witch must Be hunted out and
poisoned.
Rather the worst station was that q
Bangala, where Stanley had such .
bloody brittle with the natives on his
frst journey. The Bangalas are most
ferocious cannitals; nevertheless. Mr..
Ward, when put In charge Of that sta-
ton, had to form ''blood motherhood"
with their chief, Mata Buiki. The cers-
mony was - follows, They sat side by
side, their arms were cut open ill the
blood flowed freely, the wounds were
then thoroughly rubbed with salt. potash
and powder made Of grain. after which
the two incised arms werO rubbed To-
gether until the blood mingled. There
after they are blood brothers and sworn
TO assist each other.
Mr.. Ward thinks there b no danger Of
the elephant becoming extinct In Africa
certainly for centuries-as there are
millions Of elephants where no hunters
can get to them. Hippopotami In that
section are very large and fierce. and
sometimes make boating dangerous, -
they dive and come up under the boat
There Il plenty Of ivory. iron, copper,
coal and other valuables in the Congo
basin; but what's the use, asks Mr.. Ward.
Of 20 much suffering and death. to say
nothing OF Wholesale massacre and de-
moralixation, to get what can be easily
dispensed with or found in abundance
In some cool climate and safe regioni
From the experience thus far it appears
that nothing but determination Of the
natives will make the region safe, and
a. to the fevers nothing will avail against
them until the whole country 10 under
cultivation.
After three years at the Congo stations
Mr.. Ward went to Stanley Pool and
there joined the Emin Bey relief expedi-
ton, and received from Stanley the COM
mand Of one Of the divisions. The other
officers were Maj. Edmund NJ. Barttelot,
son Of Sir Walter Barttelot, NJ. p, and
Messrs. Jameson, Troup and Bonny. OF
these Barttelot was murdered by ma
tive, Jameson died Of the fever, Troup
got back to Bangola, but in dying con-
dition. The expedition continued as a
body to Bolobo, and there SO many were
broken down that a station was estab-
lished and Mr.. Ward put in command.
Then began the awful struggle Of brave
men. against pestilence, starvation and
savage warfare.
At Yambuya, on the Aruwimi, Stan.
ley located another camp, leaving Jame-
son and Maj. Barttelot with $50 men,
and pushed on to the remote interior.
Smallpox, pestilence and murder rapid
ly reduced the force at both camps FL
nally the second camp was abandoned
and the few survivors foated down the
river, fighting off the swarming canni-
balls, who attacked them at every turn Of
the stream, shouting their war cry Of /,
"yammal yammaw (meat). Jameson;
died just after reaching Ward. Twice
did Ward force his way to the coast and
bring back medicine and supplies, but
ON the last return his legs were masses
Of ulcers. and the force was being 80 rap
idly reduced that the remnant had to
choose between a desperate struggle to
tno COilSt OF uedCu ia tuo WuueTneSS.
Stanley, be it noted. had returned to the
Aruwimi station, taken the supplies left
there, and resumed his marching and
fighting toward the north and east.
The return journey to the coast was
through ever increasing horrors. Reach.
ing the station where forty men had been
left, Wards command found there forty
bleaching skeletons. From their records
1t seemed they had been 30 reduced by
disease that they could not procure food,
and 80 died Of starvation. For twenty.
eight days and nights they Aoated down
the Congo. fighting all the way, then
they reached the settlements and below
that were comparatively safe. "The
cannibals were bolder than BEFORE" says
Mr.. Ward, knowing us to be SO reduced.
Their yells were something horrible;
their spears and arrows were constantly
flying about us, and their fiendish screams
of 'yammal yammar warned us what
would be our fate il we fell into their
hands,"