Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-12-02

the monument, completed with stair
case and elevator inside, will be un-
yelled and detached on the anniver-
sary of the battle in 1891.
Letters Received from the Great
Explorer.
London, Nov 24-Mr. Mackin-
non, the chairman of tlfe Emin relief
committee, has received letter from
Stanley, dated Aug. >, and was writ
ten at Kafurro, an Arab settlement
on the Karagwe. 1t begins My last
report was sent by Salim Ben Mo-
hammed in the early part of Septem-
ber, 1888. Over a year full of stir
ring events have taken place since
then. Stanley goes on to account
the arrangements by him to meet
Emin, and after describing how he
hunted up the missing rear column,
continues 81 have already told you
that the rear column was in deplor-
able state: that out of the 102 men
remaining [ doubted whether 80 would
live to reach the lake; but having
collected large number of canoes
the and sick men were transported in
these vessels in such a smooth and
expeditions manner that there were
remarkably few casualties in the rem
nant of the rear column. But wild
natives have repeatedly defeated the
Ugarrowas raiders and by this dis
covered the extent of their own
strength gave considerable trouble
and inflicted considerable loss among
our best men, who had always to
bear the brunt of the fighting and the
fatigue of padding. When progress
by river became too tedious and diff
cult, an order to cast off canoes was
given. This was four days journey
above the Ugarrowas station, or about
800 miles above Banalaya. We de-
cided that as the south bank of the
Itura river was pretty we'll known to
us, it would be best to try the north
bank. We were about 100 miles
from Grassland"
Here the writer describes daily con-
ficts with the Wambntti dwarfs,
which he found very numerous in this
region. The Wambutis clung to the
northeast route, which Stanley want
ed to take. Accordingly he went
southeast and followed elephant
tracks. He says: "But on Dec. 8
we were compelled to halt for forage
in the middle of vast forest at a
spot indicated by my chart to be not
more than two or three miles from
Itura river. While we resided at Fort
Bodo [ sent $50 rifles back to set
Element that was 10 miles back on
the route we had come, while many
Manyema followers also undertook to
follow them / quote from my
journal part of what l wrote on Dec.
IA, the sixth day of the absence of
the forager: Six days have transpired
since our forager left us. For the
first four days the time passed rapid
ly. At the end of the four DAYS
was left to wonder why the large
band Of foragers did not return. On
the fifth day, having distributed all
the stock of flour in camp and having
killed the only goat we possessed, l
was compelled to open the officers
provision boxes and take pound pot
of butter, with two cupfuls of my
-four, to make an imitation cruel,
there being nothing else save tea,
coffee, sugar and a pot of sago in the
boxes. In the afternoon boy died
and the condition of majority of the
rest was most disheartening. Some
could not stand, falling in the effort
to do so. Before night a Mahdi car
rier died. The last of our Somahs
gave signs of collapse, and the few
Soudanese with us were scarcely able
to move.
After holding a council with Bon
ny and chiefs, Bonny offered to stay
with ten men in the camp if | provid-
ed ten days food for each person,
while [ would set out to search for
the missing men. Food TO make
light cupfnl of cruel for 10 men for
10 days was not difficult to procure, but
5he sick and feeble remaining must
starve unless | met with good fortune
In the afternoon of the seventh dav
we mustered everybody besides the
garrison of the camp, 10 men. Sadi,
4 Manyena chief, surrendered 4 of
MS men to their doom. We left 26
feeble and sick wretches. On the
eighth day of their absence from
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