Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1889-04-03

ammunition. and were alforether do
naoralixed. Perceiving that prayers and
entreaties and mild punishment were Oe
no avail. / then resOrfed 10 visiting upon
the wretches the death penalty. Two OE
the worst cases were taken and
HANGED IL THE PRESENCE or ALL
We halted thirteen days in Ibirwi and
revelled on fowls, goats. bananas, corn,
sweet potatoes. yams. beans, ETC. The
supplies were inexhaustible. The people
glutted themselves The result was that
had 173 sleek and mostly robust men
when set out for lbert-Nyanza on
Nov. "a. One man had been killed by
an arrow.
eve were still 1875 miles from the lake,
but with food such a distance seemed
nothing On Dec. we sighted the open
country from the top Of the ridge, which
was named Mt Pisgah, because IL was
our first view of the land of promise
and plenty. Dec. 5 we emerged on the
plains and the gloomy, deadly forest was
behind u.s. After 100 days continuous
gloom we saw the light Of day making
everything beautiful. We thought we
had never seen grass so green or country
50 lovely. The men leaped for JOY and
ran with their burdens
"At KilengasOngas, on Dec. 8, we came
to the country Of the powerful chief
Mazambona. Our road lay through his
numerous villages. The natives sighted
us and were prepared. We seized hill
as soon as we arrived In the center Of
mass Of villages about p. m. on Dec. Q,
occupied it, and built zariba Of brush
wood rs fast as we could cut il. The
WAR CRIES WERE TERRIBLE
from hill to hill across the village. Peo-
pie gathered by hundreds from all parts
and war horns and drums announced
the struggle. We checked the first adj
vance Of the natives with q little skir-
mish and captured a COW, the first meat
we had tasted since leaving the ocean.
Night passed peacefully. In the morn
ing we opened parley. The natives
were anxious to know who we were and
we were equally anxious TO CLEAN news.
They said Maxamboni only held the
country for Kabborega, who was their
real king, They finally accepted cloth
and brass rods to show Mazamb0ni and
hostiliti3s were suspended until morning,
when MazambOni sent word that we
must be driven from the land. The proc
lamation was greeted in the valley with
deafening cheers Their word kan
wanna signifies peace, and 'kurwana'
war. We hoped we had heard the word
wrongly, therefore, and sent our inter-
prefer nearer to inquire. They responded
'kurwana,' and emphasized it with two
arrows fired at him. Our Hill was be-
TWEEN two valleys. / sent forty men un-
der Lieut.. Stairs to attack the natives in
one valley, and thirty under Mr.. Jepson
into the other valley. Stairs crossed a
deep river in the face of the natives, as
saulted the first village and took it. The
sharpshooters did effective work and
drove the natives back up the opposite
slope until the fight became general.
| Jepson also drove the natives in front Of
him. We marched straight up the val
lev, driving back the people and taking
villages as we went. At p. m. not
native was visible anywhere, except on
one small hill a mile and half west.
ssOn the morning of the 18th we COM
tinued our march. During the day we
had four little fights. On the 18th we
marched straight east and were attacked
by new forces every hour until noon,
when we halted for refreshments. At
p. m. we resumed our march and fifteen
minutes later the word
PREPARE FOR SIGHT OF NYANzA
was passed along. The men mllrmured
and doubted and said why does master
continually talk this wayg Nyanza i'm
deed; is not this plain and can we not
see the mountainsg But fifteen minutes
later and after our four days march the
Albert Nyanza was below them. All
came to kiss my hands in recognition Of
my prophecy. Our position was $500
feet above the sea, the lake over 1900
feet below us. We were then in 1 20
latitude. The south end Of the Nyanza
lay mapped out about six miles south OF
tins position. Right across the eastern
shore was the tributary Lanilika flow
s4s<r fNs,ss, lso cfsf,tl, - net NC do
seconded the natives, 100 feet below,
poured IN ON us, but their primitive
style of fighting did not delay US. The
rear guard fought them till we We're
within 100 feet of the plain where we
camDed. We were attacked during the
night. but we drove the attackers away.
At . o'clock next morning we reached
the village Of Kakongo, but were UNI
able to make friends with the inhabit-
ants. They wouldn't be friendly because,
having
NEVER HEARD or 4 WHITE NAN,
they feared we would scare their cattle
away They wouldn't accept any pre-
sents, or indeed have anything 70 do with
rs. though they were perfectly civil.
They gave us water to drink, but nothing
else. They showed us the path and we
camned half a mile from the lake. Nv
c0uriers from Zanzibar evidently had not
arrived. or Emin Pasha would have ar
rived ut the southeastern shore Of the
lake. NV boat was lO0miles distant, and
there was no tree i'm sight large enough TO
make canoe. We had used nearly all
our remaining ammunition In the five
days fighting on the plain and long fight
must exhaust our stock. There was no
feasible plan except t0 retreat 20 Tbwiri.
build i fort and send for stores and ann