New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-11-26
vrIyIEyS RESCUING MARCH.

STANLEYS RESCUING DAhoH'
Another most thrilling chapter has been
,aded 70 the wonderful story Of Stanley's latest
oC-,ievenent but there are many others EVIL
IDENTIFY more thrilling still yet to be receiveu
before it is possible to understand the refer
onces in his personal letter to Mr.. Marston ana
in the brief account given in the dispatches OF
En,in,s letter to DR.. Schweinfurth. Both these
letters were written later than Stanleys report
Of August to Mr. Mackinnon. In that report
Stanley takes up the thread OF his nafrau'e az
the no;nt where il was broken off in SEPTEMBER,
1888. He had then met Emin at Wadci@' anu
had returned to his stations along the Afu"iHi
10 bring up the stores left there. so httle mas
been told of what really occurred between olah-
lev and Emin when they first met, ana so
numerous are the gaps in all this wild taie Oh
hardship battle and adventure, as to renueI
the conclusion irresistible either that the Rehei
Committee for reasons of it's own, has sup
nrassed much of the news it has received, or
that many of SANKEY'S reports have Deen iiiV0'
cepted We know that Emin was unwllIihs "
leave his beleagured capital and that ooanic'
left him to 90 back after his stores WIN ueeP
anxietv and some vexation, for Emin's sell
confidence and obstinate purpose not to give
IN were incomprehensibe to the man who had
hit lately been watching Equatorial events
from the outside, and who knew that no prop
able occurrence could stay the progress oi "i"o
dominion.
Having picked up his supplies and the camps
that had been guarding them, Stanley lho'eu
eastward for Emin's province once again anu
met upon his march with many dreadful OK
noriences. Famine and disease were as reent-
less rs the fierce Manyema, and did even more
than his human foes to destroy his forces. No
sorrier picture of want could be drawn tnan thaO
afforded by his shocking stories OF StarVauoh
Canp but at last, seven months after his part
inc with Emin, he reached Fort Bodo and was
soon among the tribes whom he had subdued
mon his first advance, and who were now glad
70 he his friends and allies He found himself
master of vast and popuous country, and was
proceeding peacefully and rapidly toward Lake
Albert when he was stopped by letters from
MIR. Jephson whom he had left with Emin at
Wadelai 1t was now January, 1888. The
first of Jephson's letters was written in August,
1888. the second November "a, and the third
December 10, or only three weeks before stan
lev received the whole of them. They con-
tanned the story of the rebellion oil Ennn
officers, of Emins and Jephson's imprisonment
Of the advance Of the Mahdist forces upon Lado
of their victory over Emin's men, of their fur
Their advance and repulse at Dutile, and OF the
profound need in which the Pacha and Jephson
stood for SANKEY'S immediate presence. Jeph-
sons letters afford the first and only definite
information the world has yet received Of Emn's
Ieverses and m>fOrtuneS.
The narrative closes, and most unsatis-
factorily, with Emin's letter to Stanley, an
nouncing his arrival in the near nelghbor-
hood of Stanley's camp. This Is the
end of the tale and even in so much OF 1t
as has been told with anything approaching
fulness there are blurs and lapses which are
left to the Imagination. Some may be due TO
the failure of Stanleys messengers to reach the
coast. others to the inscrutable discretion OF
! Mr.. Mackinnon and his associates. Beyond
what is thus told we know from fragmentary
dispatches and from SANKEY'S letter to Mr.
Maston that he obtained supremacy over
Emin's rebclKous army for he speaks of dis
( covering, trying and hanging the leader OF the
conspiracy and of the happy influence that re-
strained him (me) from destroying all those
concerned in it," We know that sOmebo dy
whipped the Mahdists, that Emin and Jephson
were rescued, and that with Stanley they de-
scended to the Victoria Nyanza. There Stanley
was taken desperately i'll, and for full month
I lay helpless and suffering, and now we know
that he and Emin and their joint forces are Sc
near Bagamoyo that tidingS may come at any
hour of their arrival at the coast We know
that they have made many wonderful discover
les of rare geographical and scientific interest
The details of all these events are, however, re-
served either by fate or by Mr.. Mackinnon.
What magnificent triumph Stanley has
won What superhuman powers, moral as wei
as physical this hero possesses 1t is now
three years since his hurried departure from
this city to enter upon his greatest adventure
1t would seem as if no experience had been
omitted from those three years of surprising
trial and peril to entitle him to the admiration