Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1889-12-12
nately they relent and only make them
prisoners, to be delivered 10 the

nately they relent and only make thom
prisoners, to be delivered TO the
Mahdists.
Having saved Bonny out OF the jaws
of death we arrive second time OF Albert
Nyanza, to find Emin Pscha and Jephson
prisoners in daily expectation OF their
doom.
"Jephson's own letters will describe
his anxiety. Not until both were in my
camp and the Egyptian fugitiveB under
our protection did | begin to see that
was only carrying out higher plan than
mine. My own designs were constantly
frustrated by unhappy circumstances. l
endeavored to steer my course as direct
as possible, but there was an unacoount-
able influence at the helm.
ACKNOWLEDGES COPS HAND.
~ gave as much good will to my
duties as the strictest honor would COM
pei. My faith that the purity of my
motivs deserved success was firm, but
have been conscious that the issues of
every effort were in other hands.
SAFE, SOUND AND WE'LL
"Not one officer who was with me will
forget the miseries hs has endured, yet
every one that started from his home
destined TO march with the advance
column and share its wonderful adven-
tugeB is Eere to-day, Rafe eound and we'll,
and the Herald correspondent may inter
view them to his hasrt'H content.
stThis is not due to me. Lieutenant
Stairs was pierced with poisoned arrow
like others, but others died, and he lives.
The poisoned tip came out from under
his heart Is months after he was pierced.
Jephson was four months prisoner,
with guards with loaded rifles around
him. That they did not murder him is
not due to me.
"Thess officers have had to wade
through as many as IL streams and broad
expenses of mud and swamp in day.
They have endured a sun that scorched
whatever it touched. A multitude OF
impediments have ruffied their tempers
| and hsrassed their hours.
"They have been maddened with the
egonies OF fierce fevers. They have lived
for months in an atmosphere that medi,
cal authority declared to be deadly.
They have faced dangers every day, and
their dict has heen ali through what legal
ssrts would have declared to be infamous
and abominabie, and yet they live.
NOTHING CLAIMED BY STANLEY.
"This ia not due TO me any more thar
the courage with which they have bornt
all that was imposed upon them by theii
surroundings or the CHEEKY energy whict
they bestowed to their wo.k, or the hope
fuI voices which rang in the ears of {
deafening multitude OF blacks and urged
the poor souls on to their goal.
"The vulgar will call it luck. Unbe
iievers will call it chance, but deep dowr
in each heart remains the feeling, that o.
verify. There are more things in heavtI
and earth than are dreamed Of in com
mon philosophy.
II must be brief. Numbers of scene
crowd the memory.
sCouId one but sum them into pic
ture it would have grand interest. Th
accomplishing heroism OF our dark fol
lowers, the brave manhood latent in suol
uncouth disguise, the tenderness we hay
seen issuink from nameless entities, tn
great love animating the ignoble, the sac
rifice made by the unfortunate for on
more unfortunate, the reverence we hav
noted ia barbarians who, even as out
selves, were inspired with nobleness on
sneak if we would, but leave that to tn
Herald correspondent, who, il he ha
eyes to see, will see much for himself
and who, with his gifts OF compo itior
may present very taking outline G
what has been done, and is now near enc
ing. thanks be 10 God forever and ever
Yours faithfully,
HENRY II. STANLEY"