New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-12-04

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y W.s.re asked to consider the suppose
ION that they were five days searching
/ food, without which they would not return
They were then asked to consider the SUP.
| position that they were five five DAYS search
ing food and then had lost the road, per-
haps, or, having
! NO WHITE LEADER,
| had scattered to loot goats and had entirely
| forgotten their starving friends and broth
! ers in the camp. What would be the state
| ofthe 40 people five days hence? Bonny
offered to stay with ten men in the camp if
prov ded ten days food for each person,
while would set out to search for the
'mlssFlg men. Food to make a light
,cuPfHl OF cruel for ten men for
| ten days was not difficult to procure, but
I'the sick and feeble remaining must starve
.ingly a stone of buttermilk, flour and
nlscults were prepared and handed over to
the charge Of Bonny." In the afternoon of
etse seventh day we mustered everybody, be-
slues the garrison of the camp, ten men
Sadl, Maneya chief surrendered fourteen
| OF his men to their doom. Kibbobora, an
| other chief, abandoned his brother, and
! FUND.-, another Maneya chief, left one of his
wives and her little boy. We left twenty-six
| feeble and sick wretches already past all
| hope unless food could be brought them
within twenty-four hours. In CHEEKY tone,
| though my heart was never heavier; told
| the forty-three hunger-bitten people that I
! was going back to hunt for the missing
men. We travelled nine miles that after
noon, having passed several dead people on
the road and early on the eighth day of
their absence from camp, we
MET THEM MARCHING
IN an easy fashion, but when we were met
the pace was altered, so that in tWentv-six
hours from leaving Starvation camp we
were back with CHEEKY abundance around
US OF cruel and porridge, boiling banauas,
boiling plantains, roasting meat and sim
merlng soup. This had been my nearest
approach to absolute starvation in all nv
African experience Altogether twentv-one
persons succumbed in this dreadful camp.
On Dec. II the Ihuru river was reached in
three hours, and having a prssentiment
where left them, the Ihuru was crossed
the next day, and for the two following
days we steered through the forest regard
less OF paths. We had the good fortune to
strike the western angle of the Fort Bodo
plantations on the Goth, and found
1 Ieat Stairs presen aad the was ,rt ras
We're still at Fort Bodo 81 souls remaining
out of SO. Not a word had been heard of
Emin or of Jephson during the seven
months of my absence. Knowing the lat
ter to be an energetic man. we were left to
conjecture what detained Jephson, even if
affairs of his province had detained Emin.
on Dec. %, the united expedition continued
the march eastward and as we had now to
work by relays, owing to the fifty extra
loads, we did not reach the Ituri ferry,
which was our last camp in the forest re-
glon before emerging on grass land until
Jan. 8. Ny anxiety about Mr.. Jephson and
Emin would not permit me to dawdle on
on the road
MAKING DOUBLE TRIPS
IN this manner. SO, selecting a rich panta-
ton and good camping site east of the
lturu river, left Stairs in command with
l24 people, including Parke and Nelson.
and on Jan. IL continued my march east
ward: The people of the plains, fearing a
repetition rep os Of the Ching of De-
cember, 1887 locked to the camp
their submission, agreeing to the contribu-
TONS and supplies. The blood of brother
hood was made, the exchange of gifts was
made, and a firm friendship established
The huts OF our camp were constr ucted by
natives, and food fuel and water were
brought to the, expedition as soon
as a hating place was decided on.
on Lake Albert from the plain peo-
people until the 10Th at place called Ga
yiras. Messengers from KaValli came with
a packet of letters, with one letter written
on three several dates, with several DAYS
interval between, from Jephson, and two
Jephson's letter. You can but imagine the
intense surprise felt while reading the let
tiers by giving you extracts from them in
SephsOn's own words.
Jephson, in his letter from Duffle, dated
Nov Z, 1888, continued:
When the pasha and were on our way
to Regal two men-one an officer, Abdul
Vaal Efendi, and the other a clerk-went
about and tod the people they had seen
and had not come from Egypt; that the let
ters you brought from the khedive and
Lubar were forgeries; that it was untrue
Khartoum had fallen, and that the pasha
and you had made plot to take them,
their wives and children out of the
country and hand them over as
slaves to the English. Such words in an
ignorant, fanatical country like this acted
like lire among the people, aud the result
was a general rebellion, and we were made
prisoners. The rebels then collected the of
ticers from the different stations and held
large meeting here to determine what
measures they should take, and all those
who did not join the movement were so in
suited and abused that they were obliged for
their own safety to acquiesce in what was
done. The pasta was deposed, and those
officers suspected of being friendly to him
were removed from their posts and those
friendly to the rebels were put in their
places. 1t was decided to take the pasha as
prisoner to Regal, and some of the worst
rebels were even for putting him in irons,
but the officers were afraid to put the plans
into execution. as the soldiers said they
never were to permit any one to lay hand
on him. Plans were laid
TO ENTRAP YOU
when you returned and strip you of all YOU
had. Things were in this condition when
we, were startled by the news that the
Mahdi's people had arrived at Lado with
three steamers and nine Sandals and Mug
gers and had established themselves on the
site of the old station. Omar Sail, their
general, sent up. three peacock dervishes
with letter to the pasha, demanding the
instant surrender of the country. The rebels
prison, and decided on war. After a few
days the Mahdists attacked and captured
Regal, killing five officers and numbers of
soldiers and taking many women and chill
dren prisoners and all the stores