The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-12-05
A LETTER FROM STANLEY.
FIRST OF ALL, HE SAYS He IS IN
PERFECT HEALTH

Peninsula The Mountains OF the
Moon With the Snow-Capped Cloud
King-A Graphic Story of Horrors
and Sufferings.
NEW YORK, Dec. 4.-The Herald has a
letter from Henry NJ. Stanley, dated
Msuwan, Nov. so, which was written to the
editor at the request Of a Herald corre-
spondent, who is now with the explorer.
Stanley says: First of all, am in perfect
health, and feel Ikea laborer of Saturday
evening returning home with his weeks
work dona his weeks wages in his pocket,
and glad that tomorrow is the Sabbath.
Just about three years. ago, while lectur-
ing in New England, a 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 pack horses, number of little
trifes, odds and ends are piled on over
and above the proper burden. Twenty
various little commissions were added
to the principal, each requiring due care
and thought. Well, looking back over
what has been accomplished, see no reason
for any hearts discomfort We can say we
shirked no task, and that good will, aided
by steady effort, enabled us to complete
every little job as well as circumstances
permitted. Over and above the happy end
ing OF our appointed duties, we have not
been unfortunate in geographical dis
coveries The Aruwimi is now known from
its source to its bourn.
THE GREAT CONGO FOREST.
"The great Congo forest, covering as
large an area as France and the Iberian
peninsula, we can now certify to be an alb
SOluta
this time, beyond the least doubt, have been
located, and Ruwenzori, the Cloud King
robed in eternal snow, has been seen and it's
flanks explored and some of its shoulders
assembled, Mounts Gordon Bennett and
Mackinnon Cohes being but giant sentinels
warding off the approach to the inner area
of the Cloud King
ION the southeast of the range connec-
tion between Albert Edward Nyanza and
Albert Nyanza has been discovered and the
extent of the former lake is now known for
the first time. Range after range of noun
tains has been traversed, 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
blackberries and bilberries, and quenched
our thirst with crystal water fresh from
snow beds. We have also been able to add
nearly 5000 square miles Of water to Vic
toria Nyanza.
"Our naturalist will expatiate upon new
species OF animals, birds and plants he has
discovered.
sour surgeon will tell what he knows of
the climate and its amenities. 1t will take
us all we know how to say what new store
| OF knowledge has been gathered from this
unsearched field of discovery. / always
| suspected that in the central regions be-
tween the equatorial lakes something worth
seeing would be found, but was not pre-
pared for such harvest of new facts.
ECLIPsED ALL HIS PAST EXPERIENCE.
"This has certainly been the most extraor-
dinary expedition l have ever led into
Africa, A veritable divinity seems to have
hedged us while we journeyed. l say it
with all reverence. 1t has impelled us
whittier it would, effected its own will, but
nevertheless guided and protected US. What
can you maze of this, for instance? On
Aug. II, 1887, all the officers of the rear
column are united at Yambuya They have
my letter of instructions before
them, but instead of preparing for the
morrow's march to follow our trail, they
decide to wait at Yambuya, which deci-
sion was made during the most awful
season any community of men ever en-
dured in Africa or elsewhere. The results
are that three-quarters of their force die of
slow poison. Their commander is murdered
and the second officer dies soon after of
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
On the same date, fifteen miles
away, the officer of the day leads
thirty-three men of the advanced column
into the bush, loses mis- path, and all con-
sciousness of his whereabouts, and every
step he takes only leads him further astray.
His people become frantic, his white COM
panions, vexed and irritated by sense of
the evil around them, cannot devise any
expedient to relieve him.
SURROUNDED BY CANNIBALs.
"They are surrounded by cannibals, and
poison typhoid arrows thin their number.
Meantime, lin command of the river
column, am anxiously searching up and
down the river in four different directions,
though at first my scouts are seeking for
them, but not until the sixth day was
successful in finding them.
Taking the same month and the same date
in 1888, year later, on Aug H. listen
horror-struck to the tale Of the last sur
viving officer Of the rear column at |
Banalya and am told of nothing but death |
and disaster, disaster and death. l see |
nothing but horrible forms of men smitten |
with disease. bloated, disfigured and |
Scared, WQltD bQ6 SC6u0 III Un6 camp,
famous for the murder Of poor Bartellotte |
barely four weeks before, is simply sicken- |
ing. On the same day, 600 miles west OF |
this camp Jameson, worn out with fatigue, |
sickness and sorrow, breathes his last.
"On the next day Aug. Is, 600 miles east, |
Emin Pasha and my Officer Jephson, are |
suddenly surrounded by infuriated re bells, |
who menace them with loaded rifles and |
instant death, but fortunately they relent |
and only make them prisoners to be deliv- |
cred to the Mahdists. Having saved |
Bonny out of the jaws of death we arrived |
the second time at Albert Nyanza to find |
Emin Pasha 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 |
Egyptian fugitives under our protection |
did | begin to see that was only carry |
ing out higher plan than mine. Ny own |
designs were consequently frustrated by |
unhappy circumstances. l endeavored to |
steer my course as direct as possible, but |
there was an unaccountable influence at the |
helm. gave as much good will TO my |
duties as the strictest honor would compel. |
Nv faith that the purity Of my nature de- |
served success was firm, but l have been |
conscious that the issues Of every effort |
were Ia other hands.
MIsERIEs OF THE OFFICERS.
"Not one officer who was with me win
for0et the miseries he has endured, yet