Evening journal., 1889-11-25
STANLEY'S LONG MARCH.
The Explorers Fight for Life
on His Journey
THROUGH THE DARK CONTINENT.

THROUGH THE DARK CONTINENT
Battles with Cannibals, wild Beasts,
Traitors Within Camp and without.
Struggles with Disease aud Death In
Multifarious Forms.
LONDON, Nov 25-The following letter
has been received from Stanley by Mr.. E.
Marston, Of the firm Of Sampson, Low,
Aarston & Co, dated Church Missionary
Societys Station, south end of Victoria
Nyanza, Sept. 8, 1889:
MY DEAR MARsToE--It just now appears
such an age to me since left England.
Ages have gone by since saw you, surely.
Do you know Why's Because a daily thick
ening barrier Of silence has crept between
US during that time and this silence is SC
dense that in vain we yearn to pierce it. On
my side ! may ask, What have you been
doingl On yours you may ask, And what
have you been doingl / can assure myself
now that know you live, that few days
have passed without the special task Of an
enterprising publisher being performed as
wisely and well as possible.
IL Would Make Haggard Blush. Tsa
And, for the time being you can believe
me that one day has followed another in
striving strifefully against all manner Of
obstacles, natural and otherwise. Prom the
day left Yambuya to Aug. 2S 1889, the
day / arrived here, the bare catalogue of
incidents would fill several quires of fools
cap; the catalogue Of skirmishes would be
Of respectable length; the catalogue of ad-
ventures, accidents mortalities, suiferings
from fever, morbid musings over mischances
that meet us daily, would make forinid-
able list. You know that all the stretch Of
country between Yambuya and this place
was an absolute new country except what
may be measured by five ordinary marches.
Man Eating savages.
First there is that dead white Of the map,
now changed to dead black mean that
darkest region Of earth confined between
east longitude 25 degs and east latitude %
degs. 45 mins.-one great, compact, remorse-
lessly sullen forest, the growth of an untold
number of ages, swarming at stated intervals
with immense numbers of vicious, man eat
ing savages and crafty, undersized men, who
were uneeasing in their annoyance. Then
there is that belt of grass land lying between
it and Albert Nyanza, whose people con-
tested every mile Of our advance with spirit,
and made us think that they were the guar
dians of some priceless treasure hidden on
Nyanza shores or at war with Emin Pacha
and his thousands. Sir Percival, in search
of the Holy Grail, could not have met with
hotter opposition.
Emin Was a Prisoner.
'sThree seperate times necessity compelled
us to traverse these unholy regions, with
varying fortunes. Incidents then crowded
fast Emin Pacha was a prisoner, an officer
Of ours was his forced companion, and it
really appeared as though we were to be
added 70 the list. But there is a virtue, you
know, even in striving unyieldingly in hard
ening nerves and facing these everclinging
mischances, without paying too much heed
to reputed danger. One is assisted much by
knowing that there is no other coup and
danger Somehow, nine times out Of ten
the diminished rebels of Emin Pacha's gov
ernment relied ON their craft and OH the
wiles of 'heathen Chinee,' and it is rather
amusing now to look back and note how
punishment has fnllen on them
The Traitor Was Hanged.
''Was it Providence or luckl Let those
who love to analyze such matters reflect on
it. Traitors without the camp and traitors
conspirator was discovered, tried and hanged
Traitors without fell foul of one another and
ruined themselves If not luck, then it is
surely Providence, in answer to good aens
prayers far away Our people, tempted by
extreme wretchedness and misery, sold our
rifles and ammunition to our natural enc
mics, the Manyema Shareholders. True
friends, without the least grace in either
their bodies or souls What happy influence
was it that restrained me from destroying
all those concerned in it,
They Fed Upon One Another.
each time l read the story of Capt. Nell
sons and Surgeon Parkes' sufferings / feel
vexed at my forbearance, and yet again
feel thankful for a higher power than mans
severely afflicted the cold bIooded murder
ers by causing them to feed upon one an
other few weeks after the rescue and re-
lief of Nelson and Parkes. The memory Of
those days alternately hardens and unmans
us. With the rescue of Emin Pacha, poor
old Casati, and those who preferred Egypt's
flesh pots to the coarse plenty of the prov
ince near Nyanza, we returned, and while
we were patiently waiting the doom Of the
rebels was consummated.
The Explorer Dangerously Ill.
''Since that time Of anxiety and unhappy
outlook have been at the point Of death
from a dreadful illness. The strain had
been too much, and for twenty-eight days ]
lay helpless, tended by the kindly and skill
full hand Of Surgeon Parkes. Then little by
little l gathered strength and ordered the
march for home
Discovery After Discovery.
discovery after discovery in this wonder
ful region was made. The snowy ranges of
Ruevenzoni, the Cloud King or Rain
Creator the Semliki river, Albert Edward
Nyanza, the plains of Noongora, the salt
lakes Of Kative, new peoples, Wakonja of
the great mountains, dwellers of the rich
forest region, the Awamba, the fine featured
Wesonyora, the Wanyoro bandits, and then
lake Albert Edward, the tribes and shepherd
races OF the eastern upland, then Waayan-
kori, besides Wanyarnwamba and Wazinja
until at last we came to a church, whose
cross dominated Christian settlement, and
we knew that we had reached the outskirts
Of blessed civilization.
Reason 60 Be Grateful.
I'VE have every reason to be grateful and
may that feeling be ever kept within me.
Our promises as volunteers have been per-
formed as well as though we had been spec
tally commissioned by the government We
have been all volunteers, each devoting his
several gifts abilities and energies to win
successful issue for the enterprise. If there
has been anything that clouds sometimes our
thoughts it has been that we were compelled
by the state of Fmin pacba and his oyvn ,ao-