Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-04-03
HENRY N. STANLEY.
Describes His Experience in a
Long Letter.
The Natives Use Every Art TO
Molest and Impede His
Advance.
Some Hard Battles ere Fought With
lUCW.
Death, DeSertiOn and Sickness Thin the
Ranks Of the Expedition.
tarYatiOn Adds Its Horrors to The
Difficulties That BeSet Them.
N Interesting Story Powerfully and
Graphically Told. /
Death, DeSertiOn and Sickness Thin the
Ranks Of the Expedition.
Starvation Adds Its Horrors 10 The
Difficulties That BeSet Them.
An Interesting Story Powerfully and
Graphically Told.


LONDON, April 2.
In long letter Henry NJ stanley saws hi.
expedition consisted of 3s9 officers and men
which started from Yambunga June rs,
1887. During the first six days the exprdi-
ton marched inland in an easterly direction
through densely populated district. The
natives used every art known to them 10
modest and impede the advance of the party
Several contiicts took place. Stanley did
not lose man. Stanley struck out toward
the northeast and reached a river July ).
Until October Is he followed the left bank
Of the Aru. .hiwi. After seventeen day. of
continuous marching the expedition halted
for one days rest. August the first death
occurred; cause, dysentery. The party en-
tered wild country Several deaths oc-
Cured. August Is at Airsibba tie natives
presented bold front and the party lost five
men from poisoned arrows. Lieut. Stairs
was wounded below the heart and suffered
greatly but recovered. August 81 the expe
dltion met party of many emas. Their
misfortunes began within three days of this
meeting. Twenty-six men deserted Sept
Is the party lett the station Of the Arab
chief Ugarrava The expedition numbered
263 men, having lost &C by deserton and
de ith and left 56 sick witt Urgarrava The
Longa. The men lived on Wild fruits, fungi
and nuts.
Before reaching kalinga, Congo, Stanley
lost 80 men through starvation and desef-
ton. A slave owner at kalinga, Congo, did
his utmost to ruin the expedition, short of
open hostility and insisted upon purchasing
rifles, ammunition and clothing. The exp
dition left the station beggared, the men be.
ing absolutely naked and 20 weak they Sere
unable to carry the boat. Stanley was obg-
shfa. eas Ssv vtiisO 9a' l,.uh 10l"od.et0s 70 ae
and Capt. Nelson, tie lIt.er b ing unable to
march.
November II, reached Ibwiri. The Arab
devastation wh ch reached within 4 few
miles of Ibwiri was so thorough there was
not hut left standing between Ugarraya and
Ibsri. What the Arabs did not destroy the
elephants destroyed turning the whole region
into a horrible wilderness.
Stanley continues The sufferIngs termi-
mated at ibwisi. beyond reach of the destroy
ers. On virgin soil, in populous region,
abounding with food were mere skeletons Ia
persons remaining out of 2sJ. A halt was
ordered for the purpose OF reeupefating. The
sufferngs had been so awful, the fIrests so
endless, the people refused to believe they
would see the plains AMI cattle, the Nyanza
and Emln Pasha. Driven by hunger and
suffering they sold rifles and equipments for
a few ears of Indian corn, and deserte with
the ammunition, becoming demOralized Per-
ceivng that mild punishment would be of no
avail two of the worst cases were hanged in
tho presence of all.
W. ha,,;,,c:Ii thirteen DAYS at Ibwiri, rercl-
ling on fowls, goats, bananas, corn, yans,
etc The supplies were iuexhaustbl' and
the people glutted themselves with such ef-
feet that had l73 sleek and robust men.
One had been killed with an arrow.
When we started for Albert Nyanza, Nov.
"a, we were 1876 miles from the lake. Dec.
lst we sighted the open country from the top
of the ridge connected with Mount Plsgah,
so named from the first view of the lane of
promise and plenty.
Dec. We emerged on the plains, leaving
the deadly and gloomy forests behind. On
the ninth we eutered the country of the pow
erfu chief Mazamboni. Villages were scat
tered so thckly that no road, except through
them. could be found
The natives sighted US. We were pre-
pared. and seized the hill. As soon as we
arrived in the center of the mass of villages
| we bull, a zareba as fast as the bill hooks
could cut the brush rood. Their war crie'
were terrible, peaing across the intervenn.
valleys. People gathered in hundreds a
every point, with war horns and drums an
nouncing the struggle After a slight sklr
mish, ending in our capturiuga COW, the frs
beef we had tasted since we left the ocean
the night passed peaceably,
Stanley narrates that his negotiations will
the natives faileb, Mazambon declining tn
peace offering.
A detachment of forty persons, led b,
Lieut. stairs and another of thirty under tn
command of Jephson, with sharpshooters
left the zeraba and assaulted and carried tn
villages, driving the natives into genera
rout
The march was resumed on the twelfth
1 There were constant little fights all along tn
route On the afternoon of the thirteent
We sighted Nyanza. with Kavalli the objec
tive point of the expedition.
After short halt to enjoy the prospet
we commenced a ragged and stony descen
Before the rear guard descended one hun
dred feet natives from the plateau poure
upon them keeping them busy until within
few feet of Nysnza plain. We clmped at th
feot of the plateau; wall of aeroid
reschi z 900 feet above the sea level
night att ok was ade but the sentries su
/
preached the village of Kskongo, situate
three miles southwest of Garner Albe
Lake, and spent three hours attempting
' make friends but signally failed Tn,
would not allow US to 20 to the lake because y
| nj ght frighten the cattle. They would n
exchange the blood of brotherhood, becau
they had never heard of any good peop
coming from the west side of the lax
They would not accept any present from
because they did not know who We were b
would give us water TO drink ard show
/, the road up TO Nyanza Slssic- We learns
that there vas white man at Tnymore b
they had never heard of any white men BEN
on the west side, nor tad they seen al
-, steamers on the lake.
The people were civil enough but did n
| want Is near them. We were shown I
3 path ard followed it for miles. The be
:. was at Kshn2a |. riga. lli miles dlstaI
, and no canoe vs- UbfainaDle. There We
, no trees anywhere of a size sufficient to ma
:. canoes | had used FIVE cases of cartridg
4 in 1--WE days lighting upon the plain anc
month of such fighting must exhaust
stock. | decided to retreat 10 ibwiri, ou
:, a fort and send a party back TO kalings Lo
\ "a for the boat aud store up in the fort eve
;, load not conveyable and leave
!, garrison in the fort to hold it and mar
back to Albert lake, and send the boat
!. search of Emin Pa.hs. On the 18th be 9
the night march and at 10 A. NJ. on the /.
I gained the crest of a plateau. kasont
natives having followed US to the slope
the plateau. Had one man killed and {
wounded Jan. in Ibxiri. After few d.
" rest, Lieut.. Stairs with leo men was sent
o Kalinga Lon2a to bring the boat and goo
re Also sent Surgeon Parke and Capt. Nelst
2. Out of 80 sick men in their charge o.