Smyrna times., 1889-04-10
Stanley's March to the Relief
of Emin Bey.

Stanley has been at last heard from
alter his perilOus march through the
Wllds Of Africa The following is q
summary Of what he went through:
lie started on his expedition early in
1887, going by Way of the Congo. and
on June % OF that year, with $50 Off
GERS and men, left Yambunga, on the
| Aruwhimi, an affluent of the Congo on
his long march. The Albert Nyanza
was his objective point, where he ex-
Pected 10 communicate with Emin
Fasha. Till August 81 all went wei
enough, but after that date there was
continual fighting for months. For 100
Gays the route lay through an un-
broken forest, the gloom and dangers
Oh winch were indescribable. There
was besides, lack of food, so that, what
with toll, famine, poisoned arrows and
assertions, the force under Stanlev's
command was reduced by November 70
TO ia, and these were mere skeletons.
AT Ibwlri more open country was en-
countered, and there halt was made
TO recuperate and fatten upon the
abundance the place supplied. A por-
IiOh OF the expedition, together with
the boat and seventy loads of goods
mad been left at Kalinga Longa twelve
days before Ibwiri was reached The
10 miles from the latter place to the
Albert Nyanza were covered with COM
paratlVe ease, though executions of re-
OelIlous members of the expedition and
numerous battles with hostile natives
We're found necessary if progress was to
De made. On December I3 the lake
was sighted, and later the lake was
reached, but the unfriendliness of the
natives and want of a boat caused a
long and dangerous delay. The expi-
dltl0n had to go back to Ibwiri, build a
Tort, fetch the boat left at Kalinga
Tonga, and then return to the lake. or
Albert NyanZa as it is called. To
make matters worse Stanley fell sick
and was dangerously i'll for over a
month. At length on April 26. 1883.
Gne Olv0uac ground occupied on the
Io'h OF December was again reached
and the same day Emin Pasha arrived
on the steamer Khedive. The Pasha
was not, it appears, very desirous OF
Oelng rescued, but was quite Willing
that Stanley should take awav his
Nu0lan regulars to hold the country.
lhe results of the expedition from
scientific point of view are likely. if
seems, to be valuable. The land Stones
gently from the crest Of the plateau
ABOVE the Albert Nyanza to the Coppo
river, from an altitude of $500 feet To
!, ,4OO teet above the sea level. The
'whole country traversed was more or
less productive, and much of it was of
loveliness and fertility. A
SnoW-clad mountain of a height of
lo,OOO feet was discovered, and infor-
nation was obtained of another lake
smaller than the Albert Nyauza. The
AfuWhlml Was found to have no less
.hah SIX names at different parts of its |
long course. AS Stanley announces |
5ne purpose Of making a short cut to |
5he Nyanza by new route. il is TO he |
expected that he will add materially ia |
our knowledge of the PROMISING
country about the headwaters of the |
congo and in the basin of the upner |
Nile. America is destined. we doubl |
lot, to ind in the fertile region now
)elhg opened up to industrial and com
nercial \ enterprise in the interior of
AirIca a serious rival. Being in easv
S"OH Vi europe, ltS grains, its fruits, |
Is mines must, by the end of the next
rival ours in the European
market, If by that time we do not need
III we can produce for our own use
lhat competition will be the African
question with which our grandchildren
will have to deal.
AND EMIN ON THE MARCH.
Adyices received from Stanley Fall,
tate that Arabs who arrived there re-
'ort that Henry NJ. Stanley and En-.
lln Pshaw were heard from in Febru-
aIy. Ihey were marching toward
with several thousand men
'omen and children. Thev also bad
900 tusks of ivory. The Arabs who
rought news of Stanley and Emin ar
wed at Stanley Falls in Februrarv
he5y claimed to have seen Stanley sew
raj months before that time.