Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-07-09
sM,h seY's EMPIRE
Ono Of the ,tost Unique communities"
Founded in THIS Ceatury.

Ono of the ft0st Unique
Founded in THIS Ceatury'
Originally German jew devoted !"
science aud investigation, he mas oe-
come in reality an independent SOW
areien, and having turned Mussuiinan
ne rules the great region intrusteu 10
him with absolute authority. HIS thir-
seen hundred black regulars nave SET
lied and married in the land ana VIII
never, he says, return To ESSP ny
their consent He himself lives IKE
an Asiatic, which, no doubt, by blooa
he Ia. aud he has formed negro army
40 we'll disciplined that it has defeat
adj even the fanatic soldiers sent
from Khartoum. He has herds OF cat
lie and tlocks of sheep, his supplies VI
rr,,in arr. more than ample. and he Is
accommodating stock OF ivory whicn'
! If the road to the northward over
opens, may bring him great wealth. III
the European sense lie Is. III truth,
AN 4 rrican sovereign. and rs his au-
thoritv consolidatcs itself, aud that OF
the Nahdi dios ava under the blows
! it is sustaining from the westward ne
may hope to stretch his dominion lf"h
the Aiber, Nyanza northward to khar-
toum. Having renowned judaism
md Quilted civilization for years he
| .a, be little tempted Ia quit tha' po-
| si,ion and return to ih. less varied llie
! Of An almost ponniless student OF nat
nral history in Berlin. There Is no
reason 10 doubt his statement that ne
will never desert his followers. ana
that il he leaves his kiUgdom he Will
carry with him 500 souls, thousands
nj them women and children 10
march SOUTHWARK with that cavalcade.
through tho awful forest of the Aru-
whimi TO the Congo, or eastward 10
The Zanzibar coast. would be des-
perate attempt, nor ii there any thing
to be expected from the settlement
which. if he retreats. he must form III
some new region. To draw him from
iIhe banks of the Nile. where he is Il
Prince, and whence he may
in time communicate easily with
Germany by the Sual>im route
European journalists, in discussing
such personage, are apt to assume
that cultivated European must al
ways be longing for Europe, aud this
wa- clearly SANKEY'S own idea; but w
|, loub, if that is always the case. AL
most all Europeans detest the tropics
but ever now and then, in India. IL
Cambodia. in China aud in tropica
t America, European Is to be fount
whom nothing would induce TO return
3 to the tanner life OF Europe, and wht
) finds in the society of the inferior
races never-ending charm. A natur
9 alist has always occupation for his in
strong minds, aud Emin Pasha, though
> if We may trust biography which ha
$ every sign of truth. he has joined thu
< long list of renegadas from a higher u
a lower faith--for though Judaism i
q not Christianity, it is a loftier fait)
e than lstam-may feel that in partl
, civiizing great African kingdom h
E is doing great work. That is the in
i preston we derive from his own az
n count in the latest letters published
$ and there is no reason why 1t shout
not b., true. We are not all alike @
+ all convinced that fifty years of Europ
i il better than a cycle of Cathay; an
O to found a dynasty on the Upper Nil
may seem to Emin rasha far more Il
traciive work than TO lecture in II un
versity which has forgotten him o
e tropical beasts and birds. AnyhOv
l. he had. whom Stanley left him, electe
to stay where he is. one of the mo-
d noteworthy figures which even tn
@ age of separate personages has pre-
:. duccd Savauts are common enough
is and savants with love of exploration
j. but the adventurer who obtains
), crown. or the power OF a crowne
}, head over IA defined territory, is rare.
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