The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-29

were asked to consider the SUPPOSE
uOn that they were five days searching
food, without which they would not return.
They were then asked to consider the sup
position that they were five five days search
ing food and then had lost the road, per-
haps, or, having
NO WHITE LEADER,
had scattered to loot goats and had entirely
forgotten their starving friends and broth
OF the 100 people five days hence? Bonny
offered to stay with ten men in the camp if
l provided ten days food for each person,
while l would set out to search for the
missing men. Food to make a light
cupfnl of cruel for ten men for
ten days was not difficult to procure. but
the sick and feeble remaining must starve
unless met with good fortune, and accord
ingly a stone of buttermilk, flour and
biscuits were prepared and handed over to
the charge of Bonny." In the afternoon of
the seventh day we mustered everybody be-
SIDES the garrison of the camp, ten men.
oadl, Maneya chief surrendered fourteen
OF his men to their doom. Kibbobora, an
other chief, abandoned his brother, and
Fund.-, another Maneya chief, left one of his
wives and her little boy. We left twenty-six
feeble and sick wretches, already past all
hope unless food could be brought them
within twenty-four hours. In CHEEKY tone,
though my heart was never heavier; told
the forty-three hunger-bitten people that l
was going back to hunt for the missing
men. We travelled nine miles that after
noon, having passed several dead people on
the road, and early on the eighth day of
their absence from camp, we
MET THEM MARCHING
in an easy fashion, but when we were met
the pace was altered, so that in twenty-six
hours from leaving Starvation camp we
us Of Cruel and pOrridge, boiling banauas,
boiling plantains, roasting meat and sim
mering soup. This had been my nearest
approach to absolute starvation in all my
African experience. Altogether twenty one
persons succumbed in this dreadful camp.
On Dec. II the Ihuru river was reached in
three hours, and having a pr9sentiment
that the garrison of Fort Bodo were still
where left them, the 1huru was crossed
the next day, and for the two following
days we steered through the forest regard
less of paths. We had the good fortune to
strike the western angle of the Fort Bodo
plantations on the Goth, and found
lieut. my Stairs and the was garrison fGas
were still at Fort Bodo, 81 souls remaining
out of SO. Not word had been heard Of
Emin or of Jephson during the seven
months of my absence Knowing the lat
ter to be an energetic man. we were left to
conjecture what detained Jephson, even if
affairs Of his province had detained Emin.
on Dec. q, the united expedition continued
the march eastward, and as we had now to
work by relays, owing to the fifty extra
loads, we did not reach the Ituri ferry,
which was our last camp in the forest re-
glon before emerging OIL grass land until
Jan: 8. Ny anxiety about Mr.. Jephson and
Emin would not permit me to dawdle on
on the road
MAKING DOUBLE TRIPS
in this manner. so, selecting a rich planta-
ton and good camping site east of the
lturu river, left Stairs in command with
124 people, including Parke and Nelson,
and on Jan. IL continued my march east
ward. The people of the plains, fearing a
repetition of the fghing of De
cember, 1887, focked to the camp
as we advanced and formally rendered
their submission, agreeing to the contribu-
hood was made, the exchange of gifts was
made and a firm friendship established
The huts of our camp were constructed by
natives, and food, fuel and water were
brought to the expedition as soon
as a hating place was decided on.
We heard no news Of white men
on Lake Albert from the plain peo-
viras. Messengers from Kavalli came with
a packet of letters, with one letter written
on three several dates, with several days
interval between, from Jephson, and two
notes from Emin, confirming the news in
Jephson's letter. You can but imagine the
intense surprise felt while reading the let
tiers by giving you extracts from them in
Sephson's own words.
Jephson, in his letter from Duffle. dated
Nov. 7, 1888, continued:
When the pasha and I were on our way
to Regal two men-one an officer, Abdul
Vaal Efendi, and the other a clerk-went
about and told the people they had seen
you, and that you were only all adventurer
and had not come from Egypt; that the let
tiers you brought from the khedive and
Lqbar were forgeeries; that it was untrue
and you had made q plot to take them
their wives and children out of the
country and hand them over as
slaves to the English. Such words in an
ignorant, fanatical country like this acted
like fire among the people, aud the result
was general rebellion, and we were made
prisoners. The rebels then collected the of
ficcrs from the different stations and held a
large meeting here to determine what
measures they should take, and all those
who did not join the movement were so in
suited and abused that they were obliged for
their own safety to acquiesce in what was
done. The pasha was deposed, and those
officers suspected of being friendly to him
were removed from their posts and those
friendly to the rebels were put in their
places. 1t was decided to take the pasta as
a prisoner to Regal, and some of the worst
rebels were even for putting him in irons,
but the officers were afraid to put the plans
into execution. as the soldiers said they
never were to permit any one to lay hand
on him. Plans were laid
TO ENTRAP YOU
when you returned and strip you of all you
had. Things were in this condition when
Mahdi's people had arrived at Lado with
three steamers and nine Sandals and Mug
gers and had established themselves on the
site of the old station. Omar Sail, their
general, sent up three peacock dervishes
with a letter to the pasha demanding the
of course seized them and put them into