The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-04-03

arrived at the camp. The next day we
moved to a better camping place, about
three miles above Nyam-Sassie. where Emin
Pasha also made his camp. We were to-
pether until May %, when | left him, leav-
JephsOn, three S0udaneSe anu TWO Aanzi-
baris in his care.
ssIn return, he caused to accompany me
three irregulars and 102 Mahdi natives as
porters. Fourteen days later was at Fort
Bodo. At the fort were Capt. Nelson and
Lieut.. Stacis. The latter returned from
Ugarrowwas % days after / set out for the
lake, bringing only 16 men Of the 56. The
rest were dead. Twenty couriers sent with
letters TO Mai. Barttel0t safely left Ugarrow-
was for Yambouga March. 16. Fort Bod0 was
in fiourishing state. Nearly ten acres were
Bodo with Ill Zanzlbaris and 10l Of Emln's
people. Lieut.. Stacls was appointed com
mander of the fort The garrison consisted
of 50 rifles. deprived myself OF all officers
In order not to be encumbered with the bag
gage, provisions and medicines necessary II
accompanied by Europeans.
On June oath / reached Kilinga L0nga,
and July 10Th the Ugarrowwas station. The
latter was deserted, thea Ugarrowwas having
gathered as much ivory as could be obtained
had proceeded down river three months be-
fore. On leaving Fort Bodo 1 loaded every
every carrier with go pounds Of corn, and we
were able to pass through the wilderness un-
scatched. Passing on down the river as fast
as | could 60, August 10th / overlook the
Ugarrowwas with an immense fotilla Of 81
canoes and our couriers, now reduced to ~.
Three had been slain, and two were still
feeble from wounds. All except FIVE bore on
their bodies the scars Of arrow wounds.
On August 18th / met the rear column Of
the expedition at Bunalya. At the gate
of the stockade was BOnney who left the
us. He said the Major was shot about a
month before, and Jameson had gone TO
Stanley Falls to get more men from Tlppo 0
lib. Troup had gone home inyallded, and
Ward was at Bangala."
Stanley complains OF the officers at am
b0uga accepting the deserters' report Of his
death and sending his personal kit, medi-
cines ETC., down the Congo, leaving him
naked of necessaries for return to Emin.
BY accident, two hats, pair OF boots and a
flannel jacket were left. Stanley says; we
were 100 days in one continuous, unbroken
compact Of forest The grass land was
traversed in eight days. North and South
the forest area extends from Nyangive to the
southern borders Of Monbottu; East and
West, it embraces all from the Congo, at the
mouth Of the Aruwhimi to about east longi-
tnde 20 degrees, latitude 40 degrees.
How far west beyond the Congo It reaches
do not know. The superficial extent OF that
tract described as totally forest is 246,0OO
square miles. North OF the Congo the for
est embraces another 10000 square miles.
Between Yambouga and Nyanza we came
across five distinct languages. The land
slopes gently from the crest of the plateau
above Nyanza down to the Congo river from
an attitude of $500 feet to1400 feet above the
sea. at distance of 80 miles from the camp
on the Nyanza, we saw mountain, its sum
NIT covered with snow, probably 1900 feet
or $4,000 feet above the sea-
The letter concludes: "Emin Pasha pro-
posed to visit Fort Bodo, taking Jephson.
At Fort Bodo have left instructions TO the
officers to destroy the fort and accompany
the Pasha to Nyanza. l hope to meet them
all on Nyanza, as / intend making a short
cut to Nyanza, along a new road"
The letter Is dated at Smuputuri, Sept. 4,
1888, and was written to friend Of Mr..
Stanley in Edinburgh.