St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-12-05
he SHIRKED NO TASK.
Explorer Stanley Writes Of
the Results Of His Expe-
dition.
Resume of His Three Years
Journey Through the Dark
Continent.
A Veritable Divinity Seems
to Have Hedged the Gal
liant Band.
Many Discoveries Made That
Will Astonish the Civil
lied World.

mdSuWdIl, NOV. ~, ISSJ.-Alrs cLduley
has handed me the following letter:
"To the Editor of the New York
Herald: The Herald correspondent
who found US during our halt at MaSu-
wah, five days from the coast, has made
1t point that | should write to you. l
beg you to believe that 1 should be most
willing to do so did / know what
subject would be particularly crafty
ing to you; but as the Herald CORE
spOndent cannot suggest subject. you
will perhaps consider that it would be
scarcely fair to expect me to know
matters your readers would be most
interested in. l find it, then, most
convenient to imagine you able to tell
my friends much that / should like to
say to them. First of all,
AM IN PERFECT HEALTH
and feel like a labOrer of Saturday
evening returning home with his weeks
work done, his weeks wages in his
pocket and glad tomorrow is
the Sabbath. Just about three
years ago, while lecturing in New
England, message came from under
the sea bidding me to hasten and take
commission to relieve Emin Pasha at
Wadelai, but, as people generally do
with faithful packhorses, numbers of
little trifes, odds and ends are
piled on over and above the proper bur-
den. Twenty various little commissions
were added to the principal one, each
requiring due care and thought. Well.
looking back over what has been
for any hearts discomfort. We can say
we shirk no task. and that good
will, aided by steady effort. en-
abled us to complete every little job
as we'll as circumstances permitted.
Over and above the happy ending of our
appointed duties We have not been I'M
fortunate in geographical discoveries.
The AruWimi now known from its
SOURCE TO ITS BOURNE.
The great Congo forest, covering as
large an area as France and the her
ian peninsula, we can now certify to be
an absolute fact. The mountains
of the Moon, this time bevond
the least doubt. have been located
and Ruwenzori, the Cloud King robed
in eternal snow. has been seen and its
TANKS explored and some of its shoulders
assembled, Mounts Gordon Bennett
and Mackinon cones being but
giant sentries warding off the APP
proach to the inner area of 'The Cloud
King On the southeast of the range
tIlC UClNCCu AIUC1G 1Io " OIL u
NyanZa and the Albert NyanZa
has been discovered, and the extent
of the former lake is now known
for the first time. Range after range of
mountains has been sed.separated
by such tracts of pasture land as would
make your cowboys out West mad
with envy. And right under the
burning equator we have fed on
blaekberrieS and bilberrieS. and
quenched our thirst with crystal water
from the snow beds. We have also
been able to add nearly 6,000 square
miles of water TO Victoria
NyanZa. Our naturalist will
expatiate upon the new species
of animals, birds and plants he has dis
covered. Our surgeon will tell what he
knows of the climate and its amenities.
1t will take US all we know how
to say what new stores OF knowledge
have been gathered from this unex-
pected field of discoveries. always
suspected that in the central regions be-
tween the equatorial lakes
SOMETHING WORTH SEEING
would be found. butt was not prepared
for such harvest of new facts. This
has certainly been the most eXtraOrdI-
nary expedition l have ever led into
Africa. A veritable divinity seems to
have hedged US while we journeyed.
say it with all reverence. 1t has i'm
PEELED US whittier it would, effected its
own will, but nevertheless guided and
protected us. What can you make of
this. for instance? On Aug. 1t, 1887, all
the officers of the rear column are united
and my officer. JephSon, are suddenly
surrounded by Infatuated rebels, who
menace them with loaded rifles and in
slant death, but fortunately they relent
and only make them prisoners to be
DELIVERED TO THE MAHDISTS.
s'Having saved Bonny out of the jaws
of death we arrive a second time at
Albert NyanZa to find Emin Pacha and
JephSon prisoners, in daily expectation
of their doom. JephsOn's own let
tiers will describe his anxiety. Not
Yambuya. They have my letter of IN
structiOns before them, but instead OF
preparing for the morrow'S march to
follow our track they decide to wait at
Yambuya. which decision initiates the
most awful season any community
of men ever endured in Africa or else
where. The results are that three
quarters of their force die of slow
poison. Their commander is muir
dered anu the second officer dies
soon after of sickness and grief.
Another officer is wasted to skeleton
and obliged to return home. A fourth
is sent to wander aimlessly up and
down the Congo, and the survivor is
found in such a fearful pest hole that
we dare
NOT DESCRIBE ITS HORRORS.
son the same date, $50 miles away.
the officer of the day leads 333 men of
the advanced column into the bush,
loses the path and consciousness of his
and every step he
takes only leads him further aStray.
His people became frantic. His white
companions. veXed aud irritated by the
sense of the evil around them, cannot
devise any expedient to relieve him.
They are surrounded by cannibals, and
tipped arrows thin their numbers.
Meantime /, in command of the river
am anXiously searching up and
down the river in four different direc |
tons; through forests my scouts are |
seeking for them, but until the sixth day |
was we successful in finding them. |
"Taking the same month and the |
same date in 1888, year later, on Aug. |
IL. listen, horror-struck, to the tale of |
the last surviving officer of the rear |
column at Banalya, and am told |
Of nothing but death and disas |
ter, disaster and death, death and dis |
aster. see nothing but horrible forms |
of men smitten with disease, bloated, |
dlsigured and Scared, while the
scene in the camp. infamous for
the murder of poor Barttelot barely |
four weeks before, is simply sick |
ening. On the same day, 600 miles
west of this camp. Jameson, worn out |
with fatigue, sickness and sorrow,
brpathpd his last On the NEXT day
Aug. Is, COO miles east, Emin Pasha |
until both we're in my camp. and the |
Egyptian fugitives under our prrotec-
ton. did begin to see that | was only |
out a higher plan than mine.
My own designs were constantly frus- |
trated by unhappy circumstances. | !
to steer my course as direct |
as possible, but there was an unaccount- |
able influence at the helm. l gave as |
much good will to my duties as the |
honor would compel. |
My faith that the purity of my
motive deserved success was firm, but |
hot no re /