The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-12-17
sTANLEY's STORY.

following news from the renowned ex-
plorer, Stanley.
MBIKI, Dec 1.-Noon.- Stanley's ex-
petition, accompanied by the force sent
out by the Herald, arrived here safely |
to-day. All the Europeans connected |
with the caravan are we'll, with the ex
ception of Thomas Stevens, who has
been struck down with fever and lies in |
my tent very i'll. Stanley is bringing |
with him 286 of Emin Pasha's people.
Many of these persons are aged, decrepit
or sick, and they are all being carried
down to the coast by SANKEY'S Zanzibar
men.
MI YAH, Nov. 30-Mr. Stanley has
handed me the following letter, directed
to the editor of the New York Herald:
The Herald correspondent, who found
us during our days halt at MsuWah, five
days from the coast, has made it point
that l should write to you. l beg you to
believe that [ should be most willing to
do so did | know what subject would be
particularly gratifying to you, but as the
correspondent cannot suggest subject
you will perhaps consider that 1t would
be scarcely fair to expect me to know
what matters your readers would be most
interested ID.
The Aruwini is now known from its
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 wilder
ness. The Mountains of the Moon this
time, beyond the least doubt have been
located, and Ruvenzori, the cloud king,
| robed in eternal snow, has been seen
and it's flank explored and some of its
shoulders assembled, Mounts Gordon
| Bennett and Mackinon domes being out
| great sentries warding off the approach
| to the inner area of the cloud king.
| On the southeast of the range the
connection between Albert Edward
| Nyanza 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 mountains 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 on backberries ar dquench-
ed our thirst with crystal water fresh
from beds of snow. We have also been
able to add nearly 5000 square miles of
water to the Victoria Nyanza.
This has certainly been the most
extraordinary expedition have ever led
into Africa A veritable divinity seems
to have hedged US while we journeyed
l say it with all reverence. 1t has i'm PEELED
us whittier it would, effected it's own
will, but nevertheless guided and pro-
tected US.
What can you make of this, for in
stance: On August IL, 1887, all the Off
GERS of the rear column are united al
Yambuya. They have my letter of in
structions before them, but instead oil
preparing for the morrow's march to fol
low our track, they decide to wait al
Yambuya, which decision initiates
the most awful season any community
of men ever endured in Africa or else
where.
The results are that three-quarters OF
their force die of slow poison, their com
mander is murdered, the second Officer
dies soon after of sickness and grief
another officer is wasted to a skeleton
and obliged to return home, fourth is
sent to wander aimlessly up and down
the Congo, and the survivor is found in
such fearful pesthole that we dare not
describe its horror.
On the same Gate, $50 miles away, the
officer Of the day leads 333 men of the
advanced column into the bush, loses
the path and all consciousness of his
whereabouts, and every step he takes
only leads him farther astray. His peo-
pie become frantic; his white com.
panions, vexed and irritated by the
sense of the evil around them, cannot
devise any expedient to relieve him
They are surrounded by cannibals anC
| ~.
Meanwhile l, in command of the river
column, am anxiously searching up and
down the river in four different direc
tions. Through forests my scouts are
, seeking for them, but not until the sixth
day was l successful in finding them.
Taking the same month and the same
date in 1888, year later, on Aug. 18th
listen, horror-struck, to the tale of the
last surviving officer of the rear column
at Banolya, and am told of nothing but
: death and disaster, disaster and death
[ see nothing but horrible forms of men
smitten with disease, bloated, disfgured
and SCARED, while the scene in camp,
infamous for the murder of poor Bartte.
lot, barely four weeks before, is simply
shocking.
On the same day, 400 miles west Of
this camp, Jameson, worn out with fati
que, sickness and sorrow, breathes his
last On the next day, Aug. 18th, 600
miles east, Emin Pasha and my officer
Jephson, are suddenly surrounded by
Infatuated rebels, who menace them with
loaded rifles and instant death, but for
tunately they relent and only make
them prisoners to be delivered to the
! Mahdists.
Having saved Bonny out of the Jaws
of death, we arrive a second time al
Albert Nyanza to find Emin Pasha and
: Jephson prisoners in daily expectation
of their dooms. Jephson's own letters
will describe his anxiety. Not until
both were in my camp and the Egyptian
fugitives under our protection did begin
to see that | was only carrying out a
higher plan than mine.
Not one officer who was with me will
forget the miseries he has endured. Yet
every one that started from his home
destined to march with the advance col
umn and share its wonderful adventures,
is here to-day, safe, sound and well.
} This is not due to me. Lieutenant
Stairs was pierced with poisoned arrow
like others, but the others died and he
lives. The poisoned tip came out from
under his heart eighteen months after he
was pierced. Jephson, was four months
, a prisoner, with guards and loaded rifles
around him. That they did not murder
; him is not due to me. These officers
have had to wade through as many az