Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1889-12-13

fair to expect me 10 know matters your
readers would be most Interested in.
| find il, then, most convenient TO imsg
inc you able 10 tell my friends much that |
should like to say 10 them. First Of all |
am in perfect health, aud feel like labor
er of IA Saturday evening returning home
with his weeks work done, his weeks
yysgas in his uocket and glad that to-mor-
Lo Sabbath
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ing ~ New England, message caile iIoui
under the sea, bidding me to hasten and
take commission To relieve Emin Pacha
.t Wsdal.i. hpt as peoule generally do with
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lal'hIui Pa'N no's hu'"D0 "
Hes, odds ana ENDS, are plieu On oNe' anu
above the proper burden. Twenty various
little commissions we're added to the prin
cinsl one eacb reouirinp due care and
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has been accomplished see ho IeuSon io'
any hearts discontent. We can say we
shirked no task, and that good will, aided
hv staadv effort enabled us to complete
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PeIil'''e"'
Over aud above the happy ending oil our
appointed duties, we have not been untor-
tunats i'm yeogrAuhical discoveries. The
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itS bourne lhe srea' Oo"so ''' e''' 49,
ing as large an area as france anu 'he iDo
rian peninsula, we can now certify 10 De
AN absolute fact. The Mountains OF the
| Moon, this time beyond the least doubt,
have been located, and Ruwenzori, the
CLOUD King robed in eternal snow, has
been seen and its Hanks explored anu sOme
of its shoulders assembled, Mounts Gordon
Bennett and Mackmnon cones being but
giant sentries warding of the approach OF
the inner area of the CLOUD King"
| On the southeast Of the range the con
nection 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 uraversed,
separated by such tracts Of pasture lands
rs would make your cowboys out West mad
with envy And under the burning equator
Ue have fed ON blackberries and bllberrles
| and quenched our thirst with crystal wateI
fresh from snow beds. We have also been
able to add nearly 5000 square miles OF wa
ter to Victoria Nyanza
Our naturalist will expatiate upon tbs
new species of animals, birds and plants HI
has discovered. Our surgeon will tell wha
he knows VI the climate and its amenities
II will take us all We know how to sa!
what new stores of knowledge have beei
gathered from this unexpected field of dis
coveries
always suspected that in the central re
gions between the equatorial lakes some
thing worth seeing would lie found, but
was not prepared for such harvest OF ne'
facts.
This has certainly been the most extraoI
dinary expedition ! have ever led into Al
rica A vertable divinity seems to haV
hedged us while We journied. | say 1t wit
all reverence. 1t has impelled us whithe
il would effected its own will, but never
theless guided and protected us
What can you make of this, for instance
On August II, 1887, all the officers of tn
rear column are united at Iambuya. The
have my letter of instructions before then
| but instead of preparing for the morrow
march, to follow our track, they decide
wait at Eambuya, which decision initiate
the most awful season any community
men ever endured in Africa or elsewher
The results are that three quarters OF the
q. force die of slow poison, their commando
is murdered and the second officer dies SOC
after of sickness and grief Another on
Ger is wasted to skeleton and obliged
return home. A fourth is sent to wand
aimlessly up and down the Congo, and Il
survivor Is found in such pest hole IN
we dare not describe its horrors.
On the same date, l3O miles away u
officer of the day leads 1913 men of the a
vanced column into the bush, loses the pa
and all consciousness of his whereabou'
and every step he takes only leads him tu
ther astray. His people become franti
his white companions, vexed and irritat
by the sense Of the evil around them, ca
, not devise any eXpedient TO relieve hi
They are surrounded by cannibals, and p'
son tipped ARROWS thin their numbers
Meantime |, in command of the riv
column. am anxiously searching up a
4 down the river in four different direction
through forests my scouts are seeking
them, but not until the sixth day was | 81
cessful in finding them.
Taking the same month and the sar
. date in 1888, Il year later, ON August Il
7 listen. horror strtck, 10 the tale of the L
surviving officer of the rear column at
nalya, and am told OF nothing but des
and disaster, disaster and death death a
disaster. see nothing but horrible for
of men smitten with disease, bloated, d
figured and Scared while the scene in
= camp, Infamous for the murder OF p'
a. Barttelot barely four weeks before, is 81
ply sickening On the same day, 800 mi
osii west of this camp, Jameson, worn out W
L. fatigue. sickness and sorrow, breathes
"a last.
On the next day August IS, 800 IN
70 miles east, Emn Pacha aud my othC
Jephsom are suddenly surrounded by IN
or rated rebels, who menace them with lo
NJ ed rifles aud instant death, but fortunat
!, they relent and only make them prlsont
v 10 be delivered To the Mahdists.
Having saved Bonny out of the jaw
= death, We arrive second time at All
-- Nyanza, tn find Emin Pacha and Jeph
prisoners, in daily expectation of Il
doom Jephson's own letters will descI
his anxiety. Not until both we're in
ND' camp aud the Egyptian fugitives under
aa Hrn nrotection did | begin to see that | was
tie. iy carving out IA higher plan than m
use. Nv own designs we're constantly frustrt
PPv, PPn; by unhappy circumstances | endeavC
for TO steer my course as direct as possible,
two there was AN unaccountable influence
,ms ans the helm.
ing gave as much good will to my dutie
ID is the strictest honor would compel My {
II that the purity of my motive deserved
cess was firm, but have been consc
that the issues of every effort were in o
hands. Not one officer who was witt
will forget the miseries he endured,
every one that started from his home
> tined 10 march with the advance col
. and share its wonderful adventures is
today, safe, sound and well, and the