The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-25
EMIWs THRILLING EXPERIENCE.
He Promises to Put 1t on Paper as
Soon as He Is Able


Pasha is dated Mission Station, Ussambrio
county, Victoria Nyanza, Aug. IS Emin
expresses the hope that he will soon be able
to give an account of the military rsvolu-
tion, Imprisonment of himself and Jophson
at Duhle, the arrival of the Mahdists at
Lado, the capture and destruction of
RedJaf, the massacre of the SOL
dlers and officers sent against
the Mahdists, the departure from
Wadelai and the fight to Lungura, the
Mahdst attack on Dufile and their COM
plete defeat. the final union with Stanley
and the highly interesting march, geo
graphically and otherwise, from Albert
Nyanza. Emin promises TO send some good
specimens of plants which he has collected
on his travels He asks to be remembered
to DIR. Junker and other friends, and in con-
clusion says he will try to write again, but
that his eyes trouble him greatly.
sTANLEY's STORY OF TIE MARCH.
LONDON, Nov. 24-Mr. Mackinnon, ,sscre-
tary of the Emin relief committee, has re-
ceived letter from Stanley. 1t is dated Aug
5, and was written at Kafurro, an Arab
settlement on the Karagwe. 1t begins:
My last report was sent off by Salia Ben
Mohammed, in the cary part of September,
1888. Over year full of stirring events
has passed since then. will endeavor to
you WDaU mas occurred"
Stanley goes on to recount the arrange
ments made by him to meet Emin, and de-
scribes how ne hunted up the missing rear
column.
CARRYING THE SICK.
He then continues: 81 have already told
you that the rear column was in depIora-
BILE state, and that out of 102 members re-
naming doubted whether so would live to
reach the lakes but having collected large
number of canoes, the sick men were trans
ported in these vessels in such a smooth and
expeditions manner that there were re-
markably lfew casualties in the remnant
OF the rear column, but the wild natives
having repeatedly defeated the Ugardow-
was, the raiders by this discovered the ex-
tent of their own strength and gave con-
siderable trouble and inflicted considerable
loss among our best men, who had always
to bear the brunt of the fighting and the
fatigue of padding. However we had no
reason to be dissatisfied with the time we
had.
CAST OFF THE CANOES.
''When progress by the river became too
tedious and difficult an order to cast off the
canoes was given. This was four days
journey above the Ugardowwas station, or
about 800 miles above Sanalaya. We de-
cided that as the south bank of the Itura
be best to try the north bank, although we
should have to traverse for some days de-
spoiled lands which had been a common
center for the Ugardowwas and Kilonga-
lanzas' bands of raiders. We were about
ten miles from the grass land, which
opened up the prospect of future feasts of
beef, veal and mutton, and pleasing vari-
ETY. Of vegetables, as well as oil and butter
for cooking"
FOLLOWING THE ELEPHANT TRACKS.
The Wamdottes clung to the northeast
route, which Stanley wanted to take.
Accordingly he went southeast and fol
lowed the elephant tracks. He says:
"But on Dec 8 we were compelled to halt
for forage in the middle Of vast forest, at
spot indicated by my chart to be not m ore
than two or three miles from the Iturn
river, which many of our people had seen
while we resided. at Fort Bode. I
sent $50 rifles back to a settlement that was
fifteen miles back on the route we had
come, while many Manyeama followers
also undertook to follow them.
AN EXTRACT FROM HIS JOURNAL.
81 quote from my journal, part of which
l wrote on Dec. IA, the sixth day Of the
absence of the foragers. Six days have
transpired since our foragers left us. For
The first four days the time passed rapidly,
1 n!SI S<'J olAio'T tAeaSanoly, pelnR oc-
cupied in recalculating my observations
from Ugardowwas to Lake Albert down TO
date, owing to a few discrepancies here
and there which my second and third visits
and duplicate and triplicate observations
enabled me to correct. My occupation
then ended. I was left to wander why the
large band of foragers did not return.
FOOD RUNNING SHORT.
"'On the fifth day, having distributed all
the stock of flour In camp and having killed
the only goat we possessed, was compelled
to open the officers provision box and take
a pound pot of butter, with two cupfuls Of
my -four to make an imitation cruel, there
being nothing else save tea, coffee, sugar
and pot of sago in the boxes. In the
afternoon boy died, and the condition of
a majority of the rest was most dis
heartening. Some could not stand,
falling down in their efforts
to do so. These constant sights acted on
my nerves until l began to feel not only
moral but physical sympathy, as though
weakness was contagious. Before night a
Mahdi carrier died. The last of our Somalis
gave signs of collapse, and the few
Soudanese with US were scarcely able to
move.
A MoUTHFUL FOR A MULTITUDE.
"'When the morning of the sixth day
of batter and an abundance of water, a pot
of condensed milk and cupful of -four for
130 people. The chiefs and Bonny
were called to council. At my
suggesting reverse to the
foragers Of such nature as to exclude our
men from returning with news of the dis
aster they were altogether unable to com
prehend such possibility. They believed
it possible that these $50 men were
searching food, without which they
would not return. They were
then asked to consider the supposition that
they were five days searching food, and
then had lost the road, or perhaps, having
no white leader, had scattered to loot goats,
and had entirely forgotten their starving
friends and brothers in camp. What would
be TIE state of the 130 people five
days hence? Bonny offered to stay with
ten men in the camp if provided ten days
food for each person, while would set out
to search for the missing men.