The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-04-19

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SsanIey s letter furnishes . definite
h2sis for e1n5<<fares respecting he's
Own nlarxh eastward from Bonalyx
and Esnin's movements The explorer
returned 70 the Congo valley With LII
Of his Original followers. ard MAS able
TO muster only "a recruits IN the
desnorzlized camp. With the 50 men
whosu be had len behind as Fort
Doiow he would hsve had 81 men
under his command remaining from
the force Of ssis men which had landed
On the Arusimi. This remnant,
which did not incsade the escort Of f0f
men furnished by Emin, would have
suftIced 70 enakae him 70 return 70 the
Eyanza. As be vas familiar with the
road and the natives had become &C.
custenIsed 20 the passage Of his celumn
Of porters. IL is reasonable 70 infer
that he reached the MANIA
in eighty-swo days, OF about
November IL. Emin would
hare expected him al that date, and
arrangements for meeting him at the
lake you'd undoubtedly have been
made by Stanley's Own leatcnants.
The explorer confidently expected to
reio:n Enain on the Nyanza, where
pians would be formed for future
action. BY the middle of November
Enlin must have decided either % re-
main In the Equatorial provinces or to
retreat with Stanley 70 Zanzibar II
retreat were the order OF the day II
would not have been necessary TO
transport the Zanxibaris 20 Wadeiai.
They may have halted for season at
the Albert Nyanza, and then have
marched south and east to their Own
country by way OF the southernInosf
mission stafion on the Victoria Ny
anna
There is little in Staniey's account
OF Emin's conversations with him TO
iustifv the conclusion that . general
retreat from the Equatorial provinces
followed his arrival nj the NyanzA.
Emin had forcn of loo well-ssisci-
pinned troops and abundant stores OF
provisions and ammunition. He was
not anxious TO go. but preferred TO
remain and protect the 10000 people
who had Loyalty supported him. He
considered il impracticable 70 remove
q, large a population, and was con-
WINGED that factions would be formed,
and that civil war and anarchy would
enss1e III he were to abandon the prov
inces. He had . hundred Egyptians
whom he wished 10 send away,
since they interfered with his work
and excited iealousies among his
black officers. II Is PROBABLE
that these discontinued officials
and soldiers were allowed to depart
with Stanley early this year But
Enain himself, II we are 10 reason from
| his conversations with Stanley. was
uuprepared last May to march out
with his forces. Before the end of the
wear he may have changed his mind.
During the FIVE months Intervening
between Staniey's departure for Bon
aIva and his return to the Nyanxa the
situation in the Equatorial Provinces
| may have changed, and the two ex-
plorers may now be approaching Zan-
zibar as the latest rumors, not only
from that coast but from Stanley
| Falls as we'll, seem to indicate. But
these rumors, like all the other African
| Intelligence that has been received
during the last two years on the
AUTHORITY of Arab traders, need to be
accepted with caution and reserve.
The remarkable series Of African fic-
lions current at various times within
a fwelvemonth included reports OF
Stanley's death, OF his temperance
lin the Nyam-Nyam country as the
mysterious White Pasha, of his cap
lture with Emin at Lade, and OF com.
paete victory over the Mahdists at Bor
on the border OF the Bahrel- Ghazel
All these sensational details have beer
disproyed save the last, and Stanley 1
own narrative tends to discredit thai
marvellous story OF conquest. While
| II il possible that Emin during Stan
leyis absence took the field against the
Mahdists, returned with his battalions
to Lado, pressed forward to Bor and
completely routed the Mahdists there
the distances 10 be traversed on the
White Nile in such a campaign rem
der the Arab account recently
icarried to Cairo uninteliigiblt
and improbable. Stanley expected
TO find Enin at the Nyanza dur
ing November. The wary goyernol
of the Equatorial provinces may have
been drawn into a campaign against
the Mahdists in the North. but ii i.
more reasonable to infer that he KEPT
his appointment at the lake and re
lopened there his consultations with
Stanley respecting a general retreat
Whether the explorer finally sue
leeeded in convincing him that Cor
Idon's fate inevitably awaited him al
Wadelai, and that motives OF en-
Heightened self-interest required him te
abandon the provinces to their fate
viii he known when Trustworthy news
OF their arrival is received from Zanzi
bar. In the interest OF civilization i
Is 10 be hoped that Stanley's final ar
lgnments on the Nyanza we're success
fully resisted. Emin has been max
ing a desperate stand in Equatoria
Africa against the barbarism o. the
slave traffic. II he has retreafed tho
Mahdists viii have possession OF the
| Nile from khartoum TO the Nyanzas
and the last vestige of the magnificent
work wrought by Sir Samuel Baker
and General Gordon viii have disap
pearsd.