Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-04-20

However, the wife Of Ngamsassie. a chief
had told a native ally OF his named Mog,
that she had seen us In NoZambini's country.
He therefore begged me to remain where
was until he could communicate with me.
The rdte was figued ID Eutp,r aud dated
March 70. ID" next da.. Aortl %, Mr.. Jep-
sonNas oi'pat,h BE WIN = r r ny force OF
men, 10 take toe boat To il NAaaza.
On tie % IA the boats crew .ighted Mawa
station, Ia southern Il 81 bti rging TO Emfn
Pasta aod NJ. Jepsun WAS there Hospitality
rec We b,tne ~, ptian garrison. The boats
crew rat That taty were .mhra, ei one by one
atd Ia Il 'htt never bait II h att at ON shown
10 IN "a "a ~ lhase meL, who htici hem as
brothers.
Apri' - We opce aga n r, ached the hivouac
groun Il occupied by us on Dec, moer 10, AMI
at . p. IN II that day | saw the knediye
steaIn'r seven miles away, ualuInG to-
ward Us.
TOGETHER UNTIL MAY.
Soon aHer1p IN. Emin Pasha end 81. nor
Casata Aud Mr.. Jeteou srnved at uur camp.
where tnes were heartily welcouu. Il h, us.
Next dav We moved to n better camP'p4 pace,
about three TITLES above Nyau.a.ti. nd
this spot Emiu Pssha also made h. camp.
We were together uatil May -.
On that day | left him. leaving Mr. j Oh
son, three Soudanese and two Xsnz,hari~ IN
his care. In return he caused to ac,oa4, any
me three OF his irreguiars and 102 Mahdl na-
tives as porters.
sTANLEY LEAVES EMIN.
Fourteen days later he was at Fort y Il :.
AT the Fort were Captain Ne son and H. u
tenant stat q. The IA ter had returned rem
Cgsrros war twenty NO dsys after / had ec'
out Tor toe lake, bringing with him, ala /.
only sixteen m,n out Il f~tty-stX. All III,
rest were "esd. Ny twenty coufiers v huru 4
had sent with letters to Mrjor Barltelot mad
safely left Ugarrowwasf for YAmbuya GA March
10. Fort Bodo was IN a iourishiog state.
Nearly ten acres were under cultivation.
One crop OF Indian corn had been harvested
and was In the granaries. On June 10 | left
Fort Bodo with Ill Ear zibaris aud lOl Of
Emin's people. Lieutenant Stairs was ap-
pointed commandant Of the fort. Captain
Nelson was second In command and Surgeon
Parker was a medical officer. The garrison
consisted Of t~ity-nine rifles. / thus deprived
myself OF all my officers in order not 10 be
encumbered with baggage, provisions ana
medicines, which would have to be taken IL
accompanied by Europeans.
HE ovERTAKEs HIS CoURIERs.
On June "a we reached Kalongo. and on
july - Ugarrowwas. Tn latter station
was deserted. Ug%arrowwa, having gathered
as much ivory as he could obtain from the
district, had proceeded down the river about
three months before. On leaving Fort Bouo
| had loaded every carrier with sixty pounds
OF corn, 60 that We are able TO pass through
the wilderness uDscathed. Passing on down
The river as fast as we could GO, daily expect
ing % meet tue c%ouriers, who had been slim.
uiated to exert themselves for a reward of
40 per head, or the major himself leading
an army or carriers, we INDUCED ourselves In
anticipations as we neared the goal.
On August 10 we overlook Ugarrowwa with
an immense fiotilla Of dfty.seven canoes and.
10 our wonder, our C%ourlers, now reduced to
seventeen, who related an awful story OF hair
breadth escapes and tragic scenes. Three
had been slain, two were still feeble from
wounds, all except five bore on their bodies
the scars OF arrow wounds.
MEETING WITH THE REAR GUARD.
Aweek later, August IL, we met the rear
column OF the expedition ut Bunalya. There
was a white man at the gate OF The stcckade
who at first thought was Mr.. Jameson. A
nearer view reyea,ed the features or Mr..
Bonney, who left the medical service If the
army TO accompany us.
Well, my dear Bonney, where's the ma
jOrF' ! asked.
'He is dead, sir: shot BY q Manyuema
about a month sgo,'' replied Bonney.
Good Godn' | cried, land JamiesoG!"
He has gone to Stanley Falls 10 try 10 get
more men from Tippoo TIb.n
And Troupe
'Troup has gone home invalided.'
"Wen, where Is Wardf"
Ward is at Bapg9la
Heaven alive! Then you are the only
one heret"
"Yes, sir
HOW sTANLEY LOST HIS KIT.
After describing what a wreck he found the
rear column 10 be, Stanley complains OF the
officers AT Yanbuya too readily accepting the
report OF his death ana sending
his personal kit, medicines, etc,
down the Congo, leaving him
stripped OF necessaIies for his return
to Emin. "By accident" he says, "two hats,
a fair pair OF boots and a flannel jacket were
left, a truly African kit with which to re-
turn
The letter then proceeds TO summarize
what had been accomplished. Stanley says:
We were 100 days In the foreet-one conlin-
uous, unbroken, compact forest. The grass
land was traversed by Us In eight days. The
limits OF the forest along the edge Of the
grass land are well marked. We saw 1t ex-
tending northeasterly, with it's curves, bays
and capes, just like a seashore. Southwest
erly it preserved the same character. North
and south the forest area extends from Nyan-
give to the southern border OF Monbuttu.
East and west II embraces all from the
Congo, at the mouth OF the Aruwimi, to about
east longitude 20 degrees, latitude 40 degrees.
no" ldI Ntel DcyoHu tuc SonEO Tue forest
reaches | do not know. The superficial ex-
tent OF the tract described totally covered by
forest is 2i6,C0O square miles. North OF
Congo, between Upoto and Aruwimi, the for
est embraces another 10000 square miles.
AsNow-CAPPED
Between Yambuya and Nyanza we came
across five distinct languages. The land
slopes gently from the crest of the plateau
above The Nvapza down to the Congo river.
from an altitude Of 500 feet to l.4OO feet
above he sea. North and south Of our track
through the grass land the fall OF the land
MAS much broken by groups Of cones or
isolated mountain ridges. To the north we
saw no land higher than 1000 feet above the
sea, but bearing 2l5 degrees magnetic, at a
distance OF fifty miles from our camp on the
Nvanza, we raw a towering mountain, its
summit covered with snow, probably 1900
feet or 1900 feet above the sea. Ii Ia called
RuevepZori, and VIII prove a rival to XIII
manjaro. | am not sure that II may prove 10
be the Gordon Bennett Mountain IN Gam
baragara, but there are two reasons for
doubling II IL be the same. First, II IS a
little too far west for the position OF the lat
ter So given by me In 1876. Second. we saw
no snow on the Gordon Bennett. have me,
only three mattress who have seen the lake
towards the south. They agree that It IL
large, hut not SO large as the Albert Nyanza
ABOUT MIN PAsBA.
Before closing let me touch more largely
upon the subject which brought III here,
viz: Emin Paeha. He has two battal!ons Of
regulars, the first consists Of about $50 rifles,
and the second OF $40 men. Be-ides these
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