The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-12-14
STANLEY'S JOURNEY.
An Interesting Letter from the
Great Explorer
About His Recent EVpcditIon-He Sum-
marlzes Some of the Results and
Recounts the Marvellous Escapes
of tho Various Oficers of His
Command.

The New York Herald of the 5th pub
fishes the following from its CORE
spondent with Stanley:
MsuwAu, Nov. 80, 1880.
!, Mr. Stanley has handed mo the fol
l lowing letter for the Herald:
5 '"The Herald correspondent who foun,
us during our days halt at Msuwah, fiv
. days from the coast, has made it poin
that I should write to you
find 1t most convenient to imagine yo,
; able to tell my friends much that
should like to say to them. First of al
am perfect health and feel like labore
of Saturday evening returning homt
with his weeks work done, his week.
: wages in his pocket, and glad that to
morrow is the Sabbath.
"Just about three years ago, while
lecturing in New England, message
came from under the sea bidding me tc
hasten and take a commission to relieve
Emin Pasha at Wadelai but as people
generally do with faithful pack horses
numbers of little trifles, odds and ends
are added on over and above the proper
burden. Twenty various little commits
sions were added to the principal one,
each requiring due care and thought.
Well, looking back over what has been
accomplished, / see no reason for any
hearts discomfort. We can say we
shirked no task, and that good will,
aided by steady effort, enabled us to
complete every little job as we'll as cir
cumstances permitted.
"Over and above the happy ending of
our appointed duties wo have not been
unfortunate in geographical discoveries
Tho Aruwimi is now known from it's
source to its bourne. The great Congo
forest, covering as large an area as
France and the Iberian peninsula, we
can now certify to be an absolute fact.
The Mountains of the Moon this time,
beyond the least doubt, have been loca-
ted, and Ruwenzori, the Cloud King,
robed in eternal snow, has been seen.
and its flanks explored, and some of it's
shoulders ascended, Mounts Gordon
Bennett and Maclinnon Cones being but
giant sentries warding off the approach
to the inner area of the Cloud King
"On the southeast of the range the
connection between Albert Edward Ny
ANA and the Albert Nyanza has been
discovered and the extent of the former
lake is now known for the first time.
Range after range of mountain has been
traversed separated by such tracts of
pasture land as would make your cow
boys out West mad with envy. And right
under the burning equator we have fed
cn blackberries and bilberries, and
quenched our thirst with crystal water
fresh from snow beds. We have also been
able to add, nearly six thousand square
miles of water to Victoria Nvanza
"Our naturalist will expatiate upon
the new species of animals, birds and
plants he has discovered. Our surgeon
will tell what he knows of the climate |
and Its amenities. 1t will take us all |
we know how to say what new store of |
knowledge has been gathered from this |
unexpected field of discoveries. I al |
ways suspected that in the central re-
gions between the equatorial lakes |
something worth seeing would be found. |
but was not prepared for such har-
vest of new facts. This has certainly |
been the most extraordinary expedition
] have ever led into Africa. A veritable
divinity seems to have hedged us while
we journeyed. j say it with all rever-
once. 1t has impelled us whittier it
would. effected its own will, but never
theless guided and protected us.
"What can you make Of this, for in
stance? On August II, 1889, all the
officers of the rear column are united at
Yambuya. They have my letter Of in
structions before them but instead of
for the morrow's march, to
follow our track, they decide to wait at
Yambuya, which decision initiates the
most awful season any community OF
men ever endured in Africa or else
where. The results arc that three
quarters of their force die of slow
poison Their commander is murdered
and the second officer dies soon after of
sickness and grief. Another officer is
wasted to a skeleton and obliged to re-
turn home. A fourth is sent to wander
up and down the Congo, and
the survivor is found in such fearful
Desthole that we dare not describe it's
horrors.
"On the same date, $50 miles away, tho
officer of the day leads 333 men Of the
ADVANCE column into the bush, loses the ,,
ibouts, and every step he takes only
eads him further away. His people
become frantic; his white companions,
yexed and irritated by tho sense of the
vii around thcm, can not devise any
'xpedient to relieve him. They are
by cannibals and poison
ipped arrows thin their numbers.
"Moantime ], in command of the river !.
olumn, am anxicusly searching up and
lown the river In four different direc- 7
ions; through forests my scouts arc
eeking for them, but not until the sixth
lay was successful in finding them.
Taking the same month and the 1
anne day in 1883, a year lator, on August
Z, listen, horror-s,ric1icn. to the tale
# tho last surviving officer of the rear L
olumn at Banalya, and am told of moth n
ng but death and disaster, disaster and a
cath, death and disaster. / SEQ nothing n
nut horrible forms Of men smitten with n
isease, bloated, disflgurcd and Scared, b
lille the scene in tho camp, infamous II
Or The murder of poor Bartolot barely l.
oui weeks boforc, il simply sickening. "
IN the same day, six hundred miles west II
this camp, Jameson, worn out with o
itigue, sickness and sorrow, breathes Is
is last. tt
"On the next day, August 1S GOO miles a
asst, Emin Pasha and my ofiicor, Jeph- CO
on, are suddenly surrounded by infuri- tl