The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1889-01-01
WHERE is HENRY M. STANLEY =?

News from the heroic explorer is still
waited for. Now that his lot is so close
ly linked with that OF the brave and
faithful Emin Pasha, Germany and Eng
land, as well as America, wait for intelli-
gence with an anxious interest, unequal
led since Gordon's fate hung on Wolse-
ley's belated expedition to Khartoum.
Stanley left Yambuya, his last camp on
the Congo navigation, on the 2Sth OF
June, 1887. He had to traverse an un-
known region to Wadelai on lake Albert
Nyanza. This was FIVE hundred miles
distant in straight line. The last word
from him was dated Jnly 18th, three
weeks later. For seventeen months the
OTTER world has had no word from him.
But neither has any intelligence come
from Emin since November I'd; 1887.
The depths of the Dark Continent are
not given to transmitting intelligence
Sir Samuel Baker was not heard from
for twenty-nine months, and he had
four steamers with him on the Nile
branches.
Two uncertain reports had transpired,
however. The latest and most definite
was by Arab traders who are said to
have encountered Stanley's rear guard
in November, 1887, some two hundred
and twenty miles west of Wadelai. He
was said to have two hundred and fifty
men remaining out OF the four hundred
with which he started from Yambuya,
and to be confident of getting through
in short time. The other report came
by way of Khartoum on the Nile. A
" White Pasha - was known by general
report throughout the Nile basin, to be
fighting his way down the Bahr-el- -Gazal.
Nearly all the best authorities agree in
the belief that such a report could arise
from nothing else than the progress of
Stanley's powerful force through the in
terror. The name "White Pasha" would
the more naturally be given to the COM
mander Of fifty white men.
In the December number of the North
American Review, is a symposium of
four articles upon Stanley's whereabouts,
written by Lord Wolseley and three
other specialists upon African matters.
They show remarkable coincidence of |
opinion. They all agree that Stanley is
the White Pasha -; all think that he
probably joined hands with Emin early
in the present year, and all consider his
return and communications to be seri-
ously impeded. He must lack force and
means for returning over the difficult
Congo route. The Dervish power on the
Nile route must be too formidable for
any attack in which Emin and Stanley
can unite. The remaining route to the
Eastern coast has for a year been
blocked by hostile tribes, and lately the
whole interior of that coast has broken
nto violent hostiities in consequence of
Jerman aggression.
There appears therefore to be cause for
Ilmost as much anxiety as to how STAN
ey is to emerge from the interior, as
wen to learn how he Jared in reaching
Emin. The latter, resolute chief of the
'oudan that he is, repels all thought of
his post. Stanley is rich in
experience and resource. Unless his
are skill and courage now fail to bring
lis wonted good fortune, we shall in due
ime hail his reappearance with fresh
hapter of great adventures hardly sur
'assed by his immortal transit down the
,ongo.
Since the above was written, the Ma
iposa brings an apparently reliable re-
ort that Emin has been defeated and {
ladc captive by the Mahdi, and with
i'm traveller who is probably Stanley. 6
he latter would, of course, have stood {
Y Emin, and have shared his fate The
llamitous condition OF those two heroes 6
ppeals loudly to the Christian nations
II succor What can be done for them, c
nd what will be done, are questions for
hose answer we must anxiously wait. I
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