Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-04-03

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towards tie northeast and again reached
the river July 5. From this date tn Oc'
rober Is he followed the left bank Of the
Aruwhimi seventeen days of continuous
marching and the expedition halted for
one days rest. On August l the first
death occurred, the cause being dyseptery.
So far for thirty-four days the course had
now entered a wild country. In their nine
days march through which their SUI
ferings multiplied and several deaths oc-
Cured. On August 10, on arriving
at Airsibba the natives presented bold
front and the party lost five men from
poisoned arrows. Lieutenant Stairs was
wounded below the heart and suffered
greatly. but he recovered.
On August 81 the expedition met party
of Manyem&s and their misfortunes be-
gan on this date. Stanley writes he had
taken the Congo route to avoid Arabs, who
would tempt his men. Within three days
of this unfortunate meeting twety-six men
deserted.
What Stanley describes as an awful
month begins on September IS. Leaving
the station of the Arab chief, Ugarrava,
men. having lost sixty-six by de-
left fifty-six sick with Ugarrava. The
march led to the Arab settlement Of
Kalinga Tonga. The men lived on wild
fruits. fungi and nuts.
Before reaching Kilanga Tonga Stanley
lost fifty-five men through starvation and
desertion. A slave owner at kilinga
Tonga named Abed Salem tried his best to
ruin the expedition short Of open HOSTILE
ties. He insisted upon purchasing rifles,
ammunition and clothing so that the ex-
petition left the station beRgared. The
men We're absolutely naked, and
were so weak they were unable to carry q
boat. Stanley. therefore, was obliged to
leave the boat, together with seventy loads
of goods, at Kilinga Tonga under care of
latter Of whom was unable to March.
After twelve days journey the party on
November IL reached Ibidwiri. The Arab
devastation which had reached within q
few miles of Ibidwiri, was SO thorough that
not native hut was left standing between
Ugarrana and Ibidwiri, What the Arabs
did not destroy the elephants destroyed,
turning the whole region into horrible
wilderness.
Mr. Stanley continues: "Our sufferings
terminated at Ibidwiri. We were beyond
the reach of the destroyers. We were on
virgin soil in populous region Astounding
with food. We, ourselves, were mere skel-
etons. From 2S9 men we now numbered
ia. Several of the party seeming to have
no hope of life left, a halt was therefore
ordered for the purpose of recuperating.
we told them. The suffering had been SO
acute, the calamities so numerous and the
forests SO endless they refused to believe
that by and by we would see plains and
cattle, the nyanza and Emin Pacha. They
had turned a deaf ear to our prayers and
entreaties, for, driven by hunger and suf-
fering, they sold their rifles and
equipments for few ears of Indian
corn, deserted with the ammunition
and became altogether demoralized. Per
ceiving that mild punishment would be of
no avail l resorted to the death penalty,
and two of the worst cases were hanged in
the presence of ALL We halted for thir-
teen days at Ibidwlri, recruiting on fowls,
goats, bananas, corn, yams. etc. The sup
plies were ipexhaustible and people glut-
ted themselves with such effect that we
had 179 sleek, robust men when we started
for Albert Nyanza, November oath. We
were still l26 miles from the lake.
Given food the distance seemed
On December LIST, we sight
ed an open country from the
top of ridge connected with Mt Pisgah,
which was so named from our first view of
the land of promise and plenty. On De-
cember 10 we emerged upon the plains
leaving the deadly and gloomy forest be-
hind US. After 16O days of continuous
gloom we saw the light of broad day shin
ing all around, making all things beau
tiful. We thought we had never seen
grass so green or country SO lovely. The
men literally leaped and yelled with JOY
and raced over the ground with their bur-
dens. All! this was the old spirit of former
expeditions successfully completed and all
suddenlyErevived! woe betide the native
aggressor whom they may meetl How
ever powerful. with such a peril the men
will fling themselves on him like wolves
on sheep. Numbers will not be compared.
1t was the eternal forest that made many
of them the abject, slavish creatures so
plundered by Arab slaves.
AT kihonga Tonga, on the 9th, we en-
tered the country of THE the powerful
were scattered so thickly that no
road except through them could be found.
The natives sighted US, but we were pre-
pared. We seized a hill as soon as we ar
rived in the center of a mess of villages
and built a searaba as fast as hill hooks
could cut the brushwood. The war cries
were terrible from hill to hill, pealing
across the intervening valleys. The people
gathered in hundreds at every point; war
horns and drums announced the struggle
After a slight skirmish. ending in our
capturing a cow, the first beef we had
tasted since we left the ocean, the night
passed peacefully, both sides preparing for
the morrow.
Here Mr.. Stanley narrates how negotia-
lions with the natives failed, Mazambom
declining peace offering, and how a de-
tatchment of forty persons led by Lieuten-
ant Stairs and another thirty under COM
mand of Mr. johnson, with sharpshoot-
ers, left the Sooreeba, halted and driving
the natives into general route. The
march was resumed on the 18th. There
we're constant little fights all along the
route.
ION the afternoon of the 18TH" says Mr..
Stanley, I'VE sighted the uyanza with ka-
Will the objective point of the expedition
Six miles off had told the men to prepare
and doubted, saying: 'why does
the master continually talk this
way? Nyanza, indeedr When they
saw the nyanza below them, many
,ame to kiss my hands We were now at
Ri altitude of {, 800 feet above the sea, with
he Albert Nyauza 200 feet below IN one
iegree twenty minutes. The south end of
he nysnza lay largely mapped for about
SIX miles south OF this position and right
across TO the eastern shore. Every dent in
rs low, fiat shore was visible, and traced
ike silver snake off the dark ground was
the tributary Lauilaki flowing into the
Albert NyanZa from the southwest. After
a short halt TO enjoy the prospect we COM
menced the ragged and stony
descent. Before the rear guard
lad descended 100 feet the natives
rom the plsteau poured after them,
keeping the rear guard busy until within
4 few hundred feet of the pysnza plain.
We camped at the foot of the plateau wall.
The aneroids reading 2500 feet above sea
evel. A light attack was made but sen.
:ries sufticed to drive our assailants off.