River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-11-28

moving rom TINS place. Ten DAYS passed before
we reached another plantation during which
We lost more men than We had lost between
Banaluya and Ugarrowwas. Small pox broke
out among the Manyema and the mortality
was terrible. Our Zanzibaris escaped the pest,
however, owing TO the vaccination they had
undergone on board the Madura. -Four
days later we stumbled across the prin
eipal village oil the district called Andikumu,
There our people, after severe starvation dur
ing fourteen days, goreed themselves 70 such
excess that II contributed greatly 10 lessen Our
numbers. Every twentieth individual suffered
irois sc,ae complaint which entirely incapact-
tated him for duty"
On December 9 Stanley was compelled
"a halt for forage in the middle OF
large forest not moro than two or three
miles from the Itugi river. lie sent $50
rifles fifteen miles back to a settlement
for supplies. After waiting tour days
for their retGrn Stanley began TO de-
spair He says:
ION the fifth day, having distributed all the
stock or -four IN camp and having killed the
only goat we possessed, Twas compelled open
the officers provision boxes and take a pound
pot OF butter with two cupfuls OF my -four 10
make an imitation Cruel. there being nothing
else save teo, coffee, sugar ana O pot Of sage
in the boxes In the afternoon a boy died and
the condition OF majority of the rest was most
disheartenirg. Some could not stand, falling
down ia the C-ort to do so. Before night
Mahdl carrier died. The last of our
Somalis gave signs OF collapse, and the
few SOudanese with Us were scarcely
able 10 move When the morning u
the sixth day dawnea we made broth with the
usual pot Of butter, an abundance Of water, q
pot OF condensed milk ard cupful OF -four for
i0people. The chiefs ard HoDnv were called
10 council. BOnay offered 10 stay with ten
men in the camp II l provided ten
l would set out 10 search for the
missing men. In the afternoon Of the seventh
day we mustered every holy besides the gar
rsou OF the camp-tel men Sa1i, o Manyema
chief, surrendered fourteen OF his men TO their
doom kib6oborn another chief, abandoned
his brother and Fund.-, another Man
yema chief, let one. OF his wives and
her little boy. 80 left tWentv-six
feeble and sick Wrctches, already passed all
hope unless food could be brought them within
twenty -iOur hours. We travelled nine miles
that afternoon. having passed several dead
people On the road, and early on the eighth day
u their absence from camp, met them
marching in an easy fashion, 50 that in twenty
six hours from leaving starvation camp We were
back with CHEEKY abundance around US. This
has been M nearest approach to absolute star
NatioR IN al MY African experience. Aitogeth-
crtventy- ono persons suerunbed IN tins dread
iui eaLnp"
Stanley arrived at Fort Rodo on De-
cember 70, and, finding that nothing had
been heard of Emin or Jephson during
his absence. continued on eastward after
rest Of three days. His anxiety for
Emin increasing, on January II he
established camp on the Itura river,
and leaving Stairs in command Of 12l
people, including Fari,es and Nelson, he
pushed ou with the Remainder Nothing
was heard from Emin till the 10th. when
Stanley met messengers at place called
Gaviras with q packet Of letters from
Emin and Jcphson. The latter, in one
dated Dufile. November Z, 1855, tells
Stanley about tho rebellion In Emin's
camp; how both Sprc taken prison.
rTs, how Emin was complete prisoner,
but lvphson was allowed to 20 about the
etation, his movements being watched.
The rebellion was gotten up by some
halt-dozen Egyptian officers and clerks.
BERLIN. Nov. 25.-The letter which
DIR. Schweinfurih has received from
Emin Pasha i dated Mission Station,
CssGmbrio. Victoria Nyanza. August
Is" Emip expresses the hope that he
will soon he able TO Siyc ar account Of
The military revelation, the imprison-
ment Of himself ard jephson at
Duiile, the arrival Of the Mahdists
at Ladi, the capture and destruction of
Redjaf, tho massacre Of the soldiers and
officers sent against the Mahdists, the
departure from Wadelai and fight to
Tunguru the Nahdsts aitacll on Dufle
and their complete defeat, this final
union with Stanley, and the highly In
tere5ting march, geograp hically and
otherwise, from the Albert Nyanza.