Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1889-04-04
STANLEY'S JOURNEY.

Explorer.
STORY OF HIS MOVEMENTS.
rhe March OF the Expedition Through the
Traciiess Interior u Record of Disas-
Ter. Besertion and Misunderstanding
on Wild Fruits aud Nuts.
LONDON, April :. Sir Francis De
Winton makes public the letter which
he received from Henry M. Stanley. 1t
is dated Burgangetaistand, on the Aru-
wimi, August %, 1888. After con
firming his short dispatch of August Is,
already published, announcing that he
had relieved Emin, Stanley proceeds to
relate the story of his movements from
June 20, 1887. lie says he had estab-
lished a palisaded camp at Yambesi, on
lower Arumyi, just below the first
rapids, and appointed Bartellot com
mander, with Jameson associated with
him. On the arrival of the men and
goods from Stanley Pool and Bolo,
both officers were to report to Bartellot.
but no important action was to be taken
without consulting Messrs. Jameson,
Troup and Ward. Bartellot had 257
men. He was to stay at Yambesi until
the steamer arrived from Stanley Falls
with men and goods, and if Tippoo lib
furnished the carriers promised he was
to march, following the track blazed
out by SANKEY'S advance column. If
the carriers did not arrive Bartell OF
might disregard the directions and be-
gin short journeys until Stanley should
come down to his relief.
SANKEY'S column set out June %,
1887, from Yambesi, with 3S9 officers
and men. On the first day the natives
they met fred their villages and began
fighting. The skirmish lasted only tif-
teen minutes. The natives continued
for five days to impede the advance, but
not a nan of Stanley's party was lost.
On July > they reached the river, and
till Oct. 1S they followed the left bank.
After seventeen days continuous march
ing they halted for rest. On the twenty
fourth day they lost two men by deser-
ton. On Aug. ! the. first death oc-
Cured.
They now entered a wilderness which
took nine days to march through. Suf-
ferings began to increase, and several
deaths occurred. The river helped
them, as the canoes relieved the men of
much Of their burdens. Aug. 13 they
arrived at Airsib. Natives attacked
them, and five men were killed by pois-
oned arrows. Lieut.. Ayers was wound.
ed near the heart, and suffered greatly
for a meath. On Aug. Is
Mr.. johnson, commanding the
land party got too far inland and was
lost. His contingent rejoned the party
on the 2lst. On Aug. 81 the party fell
in with a caravan of Manyema, under
Uledi Ralyus. This was most unfortun-
ate. as Stanley had taken the route he
did in order to avoid the Arabs. AS he
suspected several of his men We're tam
pered with by the Arabs, and within
three days twenty-six deserted.
On Sept. is Stanley arrived at camp,
opposite Ugarrowwas, he could not
rely on friendly relations with the chief
and finally made a trade with him,
leaving fifty-six sick men with him and
S. a month a piece was to be paid for
taking care of them. Three days later
he left Ugarrowwas. and on Oct. iS
reached a settlement belonging to q
Zanzibar slave of Abed Ben Salem, the
fierce old Arab who has made SO mucl
trouble in the Congo. Stanley says:
.'Tlis proved an awful month to us.
Not one member of our expedition
white or black. will forget it. Out o1
the $3.50 men, we lost sixty-six by deser
ton and death between Yambesi anc
U%garrowwas and left tifty-six sick a
the Arab station. On reaching Kill
ingotonga we found we had lost fifty
five more men by starvation and deser
ton. We had lived on wild fruits ant
nuts. Abed Ben Salem's slaves did theil
| utmost, short of open hostilities, to ruiz
the expedition. They induced the mel
| to SEX rifles and clothing SO that til,
men We're beggared and nearly naked
We We're too Weak toacarry the boat ant
seventy loads of goods and we left then
at Kilanagorton under Surgeon Poll
and Capt. Nelson. the latter of whom
was unable to march. After marchin,
twelve days we reached where the Arab
| had devastated the whole country. Gu
suffering from hunger which legal
August. 20 terminated on November II
ourselves and men skeletons, Out of tn
| $3.50 men we now numbered only Ia
and several of these had no hope of lf
left. a halt was ordered for the peopl
to reeuperate. Hitherto they wer
skeptical of what we had told them
The suffering had been so awful, til
calamitiess SO numerous,tb the forest so end
less, that they refused to believe tina
by-and-by we should see plains, and Cal
tie, and the Nyanza, and the white ma
Emin. We felt as though we wer
| dragging them along with a chat
around their necks."
Beyond these hardships," said ]
s'lies a country untouched, where foo
is abundant and where you will forge
yonr miserles. So cheer up, boys: be mer
press ON u little faster. They were doa
to our prayers and entreaties for, drive
by hunger and suffering, they sold thei
rifles and equipments for a few ears {
Indian corn, deserted with the ammt
milton, and were altogether demoralizec
Seeing that prayers and ~entreaties an
mild Punishment were of no avail the
resorted to vesiting upon the wretche
the death penalty. Two of the wors
class were accordingly taken an
hanged in the presence of all.
We halted thirteen days in Iberri an
reveled on fowls, goats. bananas. corr
sweet potatoes, beans, etc. The SUI
plies were inexhaustible. The peopl
glutted themselves. The result WI
that | had ,73 sleek and mostly robu.
men. ] set out for Albert Nyanza o
Nov. 81.
Zone man had been killed by an a
row. We were still 1900 miles frol
the lake, but with food such a distant
seemed nothing. On Eee. we sighte
tbo oman country from, tha ton IF ~