New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-12-06
STANLEY'S OWN STORY.
THE MODEST RECORD OF AN IMMORTAL
ENTERPRISE

PRAISE FOE HIS FOLLOWERS, BOTH D"N0"
WHITE. AND THANKS To GOD Fof'hNT
80, ,,c woxpFRFUL ACHIEVEMENTS
r,o fo,lovine characteristic letter from "r'
H. NJ STANLEY is taken from The New-iorN
uoroid y to which paper it was forwarueu u"'0
d,,o Of Msnwah. East Africa November 'o
aTo the Editor Of The New-fork Hcrau ,,,,,rr
~.Tb. Herald correspondent who found US uui'"s
me. n 'a,, =, Mnvah. five days from the coast,
~ - ., n point that / should write to YOU
hw Won 10 believe that l should be most Willie 80
an 60 did ] know what subject would De psrH0u''
attvinp 70 YOU: but as The Herald correspondent
cannot suggest a subject you VIII perhaps '
,at 4, would be scarcely fair 10 expect me 10 h"o"
matters YOUR readers would be most Interested i"'
." find It then most convenient 10 ihldE''" wv
.hlo IN toll my friends much that should ike ~ say
to tbem First Of all ! am in perfect hea''" anu
feel like q laborer of saturday evening re'"''"e
home with his weeks work done, his week We
in his pocket and glad that tomorrow Is the SsoOa'
Inst about thee years ago, while recurring !"
Now Fpgland a message came from under the sea
bidding me 70 hasten and take commission u re-
uevc Fmin Pacha at Wadelai; but, as people gen
orally do with faithful pack horses, numbers Oh n''io
tiGes odds and ends are piled on over anu "o'No
th, proner burden. Twenty various little commits
sions were added TO the principal one ea"h fVq""s
due care and thought. Well looking BACK over "na'
has been ACCOMPLISHED reason for any hearts
discomfort. We we shirked no Idsh' all"
that GOOD WILL aided by steady EFFORT enapleu us 10
complete every little job as we'll as circumstances per
mittcd.
"Over and above the happy ending OF orr appointed
duties we have not been unfortunate in geographic
discoveries The Aruwim is now known from its
source 10 Us bourne The great Congo forest covering
A. large an area France and the Ibcran Peninsula
we can now certify 10 be absolute fact The Noun
,sns Of the Moon this time, beyond the least doubt
rhssf
robed in eternal snow. has been seen and its TANKS
explored and some of its shoulders assembled, Mounts
Gordon Bennett and Mackinnon being but giant
sentiIe warding off the approach of the inner area OF
The Cloud King
"On the southeast OF the range the connection ne
tween Albert Edward Nyanza and the Albert Nyanza
has been discovered and the extent of the former lake
is now known for the inst time Range after range OF
mountains has been aversed separated by such tracts
Of pasture lands as would make your cowboys out West
with envy.
And right under the burning equator we have fed
on backberries bberies and quenchcd our thirst
with crystal water fresh from snow beds We have
also been able 10 add nearly six thousand square miles
OF water Victoria Nyanza
Our naturalist will eXpatiate upon the new species
of animals, birds and plants he has discovered our
surgeon will tell what he knows OF the climate ana us
amenities It Will take all We know how to say
what rev stores of knowledge have been gathered nom
this unexpected field of discoveries
Il always suspected thai in the central regions be
tween the equatorial lakes something worth seeing
would be found but not prepared for such haf
vest of new facts
This has certainly been the most extraordinary eX
pedition | have ever led into Africa veritable
divinity seems to have hedged us while we journeyed
| say it with all reverence. 1t has impelled us
whittier Il would, effected Its VIII, but neveIthe
less guided ard protected us.
what can you make Of this, for instance? On
August IL 1857, all the officers Of the rear column
are united At Yambuya. They have my letter of in
trctons before them but instead Of preparing for The
morrow's march, to follow track, they decide 10
wait az Yambuya which decision initiates the most
awful season any community OF men ever endured 10
Africa elsewhere.
1.-THE results are that thTeequarterS of their force
die of slow poison. Their commander is murdered aud
the second officer dies after of sickness and grief
Another officer is wasted TO a skeleton and obliged
TO return home. fourth Is sent TO wander aimeSsly
up and down the Congo and the survivor is found
in such fearful posthOe that We dare not describe
its horrors
~on the same date. $50 miles away. the officer of
the day leads 33 of the advanced column into the
bush loses the path and all consciousness OF his
whereabouts, and every sicp he takes only leads him
further asiray. His people become frantic bis white
companions veXed and irritated by the of the
evil around them, cannot devise any eXpedient 70
relieve him. They are surrounded by cannlbalS and
poison tipped arrows thin their numbers.
Meantime l. in command of the river column
anxously searching mp and down the river in four
different directions through forests my scouts are
seeking for them, bat not until the sixth day was
succcs sful in finding them.
Taking the month and the same date, in
Ia8e year later August Il. listen, horror
struck The tale of the last surviving officer of the
column at Banalya, and am told of nothing but
death and disaster, disaster and death, death and
disaster. nothing but horrible forms of men
smitten with disease, boacd disGgured and AIRED,
while the in the camp, infamous for the murder
OF poor Bartteot barely four weeks before is simply
sickening
"on the same day, 600 miles west Of this camp,
jameson worn out with fatigue, sickness and soTOw
breatheS his last.
ON the next day. August IS, 600 miles east, Emin
Pacha and my officer Jephson. suddenly surrounded
by infr'stcd rebels, who menace them with loaded
rifles and instant death, but fortunately they relent
and only make them prisoners, be delivered to the
Mahdists
Having saved Bonny out Of the jaws Of death.
arrive a second time at Albert Nyauza, to lind Emin
Pscha and Jephson prisoners IN daily expectation Of
their doom.
"Jephson's own letters Will describe his anxiety.
Not until both were in my camp and the Egyptian
fugitives under prOtec ton id begin 10 see that
/ was only carrying out higher plan Than mine.
My own designs were constantly frustrated by un-
happy circums ances. l cndeavored my
course as direct possible, mt there was an UNI
accountable influence al the helm.
. gave much goodwill my duties the
stIictest honor Womb compel My faith that the
purity OF my motive deserved success was finn, but
] have been conscious thai the Of every effort
wele liz other hands.
." Not officer who was with viii forget the
miserieS he has endured. set every that started
from his home destined 10 march with the advance
column and share its wonderful adventure, is here
to-day safe, sound and well, and The Herald
lespoSdeDt may interview them his hearts content
ms Is not due 10 me. Lieutenant Stains
med ike ntlot htfo IA
died, and he lives. The poisoned Zip came from
uhuer MS heart eighteen months after he pierced
Jephson was four months prisoner with guards with
loaded rifles around him. That they did NOT murder
him i not due 10 me.
These officers have had TO wade through As many