The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-04-04


ago. - replied Bonney.
Bangela.''
Heavenly Father" 1 said, then
you are the only one left.''
The letter then proceeds to summar-
iZe what hao been accomplished.
Stanley says:
1--WE were 100 days in the forest:
one continuous, unbroken, compact for
est; the grass land was traversed by us
in eight days. The limits of the for
est along the edge of the grass land
are all we'll marked. We saw it ex-
tending northeasterly. with its curves,
BAYS and capes, just like seashore.
Southwesterly it presented the same
character: North and south the for
est extended from the southern bor-
ders of Mombutta east and west. It
embraces the Congo at the mouth of
the Aruwhimi to about east lon
gitude % degrees, and latitude
40 degrees. How far to the west
beyond the Congo the forest reaches /
do not know. The superficial extent of
the tract described totally covered by
forest is 246, 900 square miles. North of
the Congo, between Upolo and Aru-
whlmi. the forest embraces an
other 10000 square miles. Between
Yambunga and NyaDza we came across
five distinct languages. The land
slopes gently from the crest of the
plateau about the Nyanza down to the
Congo river from an altitude of 500 to
400 feet above the sea. North and
south of our track through the grass
land the face of the land is much
broken by groups of cones or isolated
mountain ridges. To the north 10 land
is higher than 6 700 feet above sea level,
but bearing 2l5 degrees magnetic at a
distance of five miles. From our camp
on the NyanZa we saw a towering
mountain, its summit covered with
snow, probably II 900 feet or IL, 900 feet
above the sea. 1t is called RuevenZori
and will prove d rival to Keltmaryara.
Before closing let me touch more
largely upon the subject which brought
me here. viz; Emin Pasha. He has
two battaliOns of regulars; the first con
sisting of about $50 rifles and the sec
Ond OF $40 men. Besides these bat
talions he has quite a respectable force
of irregulars, SAILORS, artisans, clerks
and servants.
Altogether" Emin says, IF I cam
not go away from here, We shall have
about 5000 people with us. Were l
in your place 1 would not hesitate a
moment or for second be in doubt
what to do. What you say is in part
true, but we have such a large number
of women and children. How can they
all be brought out of here? We shall
want a number of carriers.
Carriers for what?" asked.
For the women and children, he
replied. You surely would not leave
them, and they cannot travel"
The women must walk. 1t will do
them more good than harm. AS for
the little children, load them on dom
keys; hear you have about 200. Your
people will not travel very far the first
month, but little by little they will get
accustomed to it. Our Zanzibar Wom-
en- crossed Africa on my second expedi-
ton, why cannot your black women do
the same? / have no fear of them.
They will do better than the men,"
They would require a vast amount
of provisions for the road"
Eyes, but you have thousands of
cattle. l believe. They will furnish
beef, and the countries through which
we must pass VIII furnish grain and
vegetable food
well, we will defer further talk I'M
til tomorrow
The conversation with the Pasha
took place May 1st, 1883. The Pasha
came from the steamer next day about
p. m. In a short time we commenced
our conversation again. Many of the
arguments used above were repeated.
He said: What you toll me yesterday
has led me sto think it best that we
should retire from here. The Egyptians
are willing to leave. There are of those
about 100 men besides their women and
children. 1 should be glad to be rid of
them, because they undermine my au-
thority and puliify all my endeavors to
retreat. When / informed them that
Cartoum had fallen and that Said
Pasha was slain they told the Nubians
that it was a cOncocted story and that
we should see steamers ascending the
river for their rescue. But of the reg
ulars / am extremely doubtful. They
have led such free life here that they
would demur at leaving a country where
they have enjoyed luxury.
Day after day have recorded my in
terviews with Emin, but these extracts
are enough for you to judge how he is
situated. Everything else is left until
1 return with the united expedition to
the NyanZa. Within two months the
Pasha proposed To visit Fl. Bodo. TAX
ing Mr.. Jephson with him. AT Fl.
Bodo [ have left instructions to de-
stroy the fort and accompany the
Pasha. hope to get there again and
intend making short cut to the Ny
ANA along new route.
(Signed) HENRY M. STANLEY.