Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-11-06
EMIN IN THE MAHDPS HANDS.
Stanley's Timely Rescue of the Daring
Explorer.

From the New York Sun.
On August H. last year. Stanley wrote to
Tippu lib from his camp near the Aruwimi
river:
1T is now eighty-two days since left Emin
Pasha on the Nyanza. He has ivory in abun-
dance, thousands of cattle and sheep, goats and
fowls and food of all kinds 1 found him
very good and kind man. His liberality could
not be excelled. His soldiers blessed our black
men for their kindness in coming SO far to
show them the way. Many of them were
ready to follow me out of the country, but
asked them to stay quiet a few months, that
might return and fetch the other men and
goods left at Yambuga."
We now know that twenty four hours after
this letter was penned Emin WAS imprisoned
by his troops, who had risen in revolt. Stan
iey's letter containing this astonishing news is
wholly deficient in details, but it is entirely
reasonable to conjecture that this affront upon
their commander was perpetrated, not by the
main body of his troops but by the 200 or 300
Egyptian soldiers committed to him by Cor
don, to whom he had added native force of
about 1000 men, enlisted on the Upper Nile re-
gion.
my people," he wrote two years ago. '.are,
notwithstanding all their hardships. brave and
good with the exception of the Egyptians"
Long before SANKEY'S advent the Egyptians,
chafing under their prolonged and enforced 30
journ on the Upper Nile, had given Emin con-
siderable trouble by their spirit of insubordi-
nation. If they had possessed any resources
with which to make their way through the
country they would doubtless long ago have
abandoned the Upper Nile. 1t is not likely that
the people who, as Stanley wrote, ''were ready
to follow me out of the country were Emin's
negro soldiers, who were in their own land, but
they were the homesick Egyptian troops
Emin's cup of misfortune was then filled to
Overlooking by the sudden appearance of the
mahdists, into whose hands fell about q dozen
stations north of Wadelai, nearly all the posts
that had been originally intrusted to the brave
governor by Gen. Gordon; and then the terror
stricken natives joined the invader. as Emin no
longer had power to protect them. 1t was
these Of whom he wrote a while ago: THAT
have won the confidence of the natives is
proven by the fact that l and my handful of
followers have held our own up to the present
day in the midst of many thousands Of these
natives"
In Emin's dire need, surrounded as he was
by his own rebeliious soldiers and threatened
by implacable foes from Khartoum, Stanley
again appeared upon the scene in time to save
the life of the devoted governor and pilot him
and his Egyptians safely to the coast. 1t turns
out at last that, with all his misfortunes STAN
ley's enterprise was as truly and effectually
relief expedition as that which, under Schley's
command rescued the remnant of the Greedy
party at Cape Sabine. Emn certainly owes
his escape from death or long imprisonment to
Stanley's expedition; perhaps also to the fact
that the five cataracts between Lado and Dufle
impeded the mahdist advance up the Nile until
Stanley had again reached the river.
Thus Emin has finally been driven out of the
great region of which he wrote in one of his
latest letters: "Sooner or later bright future
must arise for these countries. For twelve
long years have striven and toled and sown
the seeds for future harvest laid the founda-
ton stone for future buildings, and will not
give IN the work "
But the melancholy end of all his bright
hopes and heroic self-sacrifice did not retard
the progress of geographical knowledge. and in
the same letter recording his great disaster
Stanley gives the solution of one of the few
big problems of African discovery still remains
ing for explorers to solve. He says
he travelled along three sides of tie
Nyanza of Usongora. by which he means
the famous Muta NZige, the lake that bor-
ders the southern part of the Usongora district.
He found that its waters flow north into Albert
Nyanza, making this lake the source of the
southwest branch of the Nile, and forever
settling the vexed question Of the Muta Nzige.
1t is less than six months since one African ar-
thorlty IN Europe was stoutly contendiug with
| great array of arguments that Muta NZige
was Congo feeder. Stanley also found that
the big mountain he first saw last year. fully
SO miles away, and which, his men shouted,
was covered with salt, was only one peak of
snow-covered range from which fifty streams
descend to join the outhowing waters of Muta
NZige.
Add these discoveries to the brilliant results
of SANKEY'S journey through 400 miles of I'M
known country between the Congo and the
Nile, and it is seen that his latest travels in
Africa have resulted in rich additions to geo.
graphical knowledge. 1t has been a remark
able expedition, remarkable in its strange
adventures, in its untold sufferings in its rich
| discoveries and in the complete fulfilment of
| It's Humanitarian mission