Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-04-03

IL were Drought TO the fort. the rest died or
were deserted On the return of Stairs with
the beat and goods, he was sent 10 Asurrow
to bring up the eonyalescent. Soon after
MS departure | was attacked by gastritis
and abscess on the arm. After months Of
careful nursing recovered and set out again
for Albert MAMA, April >, accompanied bv
Jephson and Parker Nelson was appointed
commander of the fort a, Bodo. with IS
men and boys April 26th, We arrived in
Nozambini's eouary again. After solicita-
ton Nozambini decided TO make blood
brotherhood with me. The example was
followed by all chiefs. As far as Nyanza
the food was supplied gratis.
When one days Tarch from Nyanza. na-
tives came from Hawaii and said that v hite
man named Malejja had given their chief
black packet to give me.
The next days march brough: US TO Chief
hsvolie, who handed me note from Emin
K Pashs, covered with strip Of black Ameri-
can oil cloth. Ia the note he said he had
zone TO the south end OF the lake in search
oi The white man seen there, and begged me
to remain until he could communicate with
me the next day
April 23 Jephson va. dispatched with
strong force 10 take the boat 10 MAMA
On the 26th the boats crew sighted Nawa
station the southernmost post belonging 10
Emln Pssha. Jephson WAS Hospitality re.
ceiyed by the Egyptian garrison April 20. !
We again reached the oivouac ground, occu |
pied December l6, at Z. NJ. We saw the |
hhedlves steamer about seven miles away
steamlng towards US, and soon after T. NJ.
Emln Pasha, Signor Cosati and Jephson ar
rived at the camp. 1he next day We moved
to better camping place, about three miles
above Nyam Sassic, where Emin Pssha also
made his camp
We've together until May 2j when lef,
him, leaving Jephson 3 Souianese and 2
ZaEzibaris in his care, and taking in return
) lrregulars and l02 Mahdi natives as por-
tiers. Fourteen days later was at Fort Ba-
do, where were Capt. Nelson and Lieut.
Stairs The later returned from Ugarrow-
was % days after | set out for the lake
bringing only Is men OF 5G,lhe rest dead. 20
couriers were sent siih letter. TO Mai Bart
ettot with safety. We left ugarrowwas for
Y amauga March l6. Fort BaIo was in
iourishlng condition, near y ten acres under
cultivation.
June IL we left For, Bado with III Zanzi.
paris and l0l of Emins people. Lieut. A
stairs was appointed commander of the fort,
he garrison consisting of ff,y-nine rifles
deprived myself of all off ;ers in order not
o be encumbered with baggage. provisions,
md medicines necessary if accompanied BY +
europeans.
On June oath we reached k.lnga and on
uly 18th, Ugarrowwas. The latter station
vas deserted, garrowwa having gathered
$ much ivory as he could obtain had pro-
eeded down the river three months before
IN leaving Fort Baio We loaded every II
arrier with sixty pounds of corn We were C.
bic to pass through the wilderness un- v
EaI i tk,, =,
'e could 20 we overlook tgarrowawa, on u
Iugust 10Th, with an immense hotlla of 81 II
anoes. Our couriers were now re luced to a.
eventeen, three having been slain, two still G.
eeble from wounds and all, except five, eI
ore on their bodies scars from arrow
'onnds. ON August 18th, we met the rear
olumn of our expedition at Auraiya. At
he gate of the stockade was Bonney, who
1T the medical service Of the army to ac- Z
ompany US.
He said the major was shot by Manguema
bout month before. Jameson had gone
} Stanley Falls to get more men from Tip
90 lib, and after his tramp had gone home
iyalided. Ward was at Bsngo "a
Stanley complains of the officers at Yam -
ua accepting the deserters report of his "
cath ami sending his personal kit of meii- y
ines, etc, down the Congo, leaving him u, "a
aked of the necessares for return to VI
min. By accident two hats a pair of boos 81 Z.
nd flannel jacket were left.
Stanley says We were one hundred and u'
act forest. Ihe grass land was traversed
/ eight days North and south of the for
st the area extends from Nyangye to the e,
lu;hern borders Vt Monbattu, East and :"
est it embraces all from the Congo at the
louth Of the Aruwmi to about east longi
lde ~ degrees and latitude forty degrees.
How far west hey yond the Congo it reaches,
do not know. The superficial extent of er
he tract described totally covered by the al
crest is 2i6 900 square miles, North of the 7
'ongo, the forest embraces another 10000 re
quare miles Between the iamburya and s.
le Nyanza We came across fl se distnc Ian O,
uages. The land slopes gently from the OF
rest of the plateau above the Nyanza down tt
0 the Congo river, from an altitude of $500 ia
eet down 10 400 above the sea. At a DIS
ince of fifty miles from our camp on the
,yauza,vRs u mountain summit covered with
now. probably Il 900 or 10 900 feet above
he sea, @ illed HueyenzOrl. | am not sure
ut that II may not be the Gordon Bennet:
mountain in Gambaragua. The letter con-
uies "Emin Pasha proposed to visit Fort
30 10, taking Jephson at Fort Bodo. Have t,
EFT instructions to the officers to destroy the $
ort and accompany Pasha to Nyanza. y
ioped ia meet them all on Nyanza, as in n
end making short cut to Nyanza along the A
lew road v