Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-01-10
AFRICAN ADVEN pURERS.
To be continued

Who Is Fmin By? -Stanley's Search for Him
Emin Boy, whose real name is DR..
Schnitzier, is an Austrian by birth aad
education. He professed conversation 20
the faith of Islam about 1875, and then
assumed the name be now bears. 1t is
said-bu5 we do not know OIL what evil
dence the story is pported-that he was
one of Midhat Pashs's medical attend
ants at Constantinopie, and on the arrest
of his patron for the murder of Sultan
Abdul Az y he fed for safety to Khar-
toum, disguised as an Arab. He profess.
ed conversation to Northumberland, and
represented himself to be Turk by race
as we'll as religion. Even with Europeans
he seems to have kept up his pretense,
and travellers speak of Emin Effendi as a
man of scientific tastes, really marvel
Gus thing in Turk. He became an off
Ger in the Kheoive's army, and met and
won the friendship of General Gordon
when the latter was Governor General Of
Of the Souian. In 1878 Gordon appoint
ed him Governor of the Equatorial Prov
ince, the southernmost provinces
of the Khedive's possessions. 1t is
said that Enin Pasha was but % years OF
age when he was put in that d ,fficult posi-
tiop, but he there proved himself pos
sessed OF remarkable executive ability.
The finances of the province were IL ap-
parently hopeless confusion; he immedi-
ately made them all straight, and in a
year had converted a deficit OF e39 ,000
into a surplus of SO 600. In 1882 he went
GO to Khartoum and offered his services
to the Egyptian authorities to effect a
peace with. the Mahdi. They declined
his help and advised him to go back to
his province, develop, and perfect his
fHDntiers. He obeyeo, and soon after, by
the spreading of the 1nsurrection, he
found himself wholly cut off from COM
munication with the Egyptian Govern
ment. From that time Emin Pasha
deprived of all outside support, ard
surrounded on all sides by powerful
enemies, and yet he succeeded in keeping
the several millions of Inhabitants OF his
province in subjection. and has tang bit
them 10 wear clothes, make shoes, and
cultivate tobacco. His province is rich
one, ali revenues icing collected in ivory.
After March, 1888, no word was received
from Emin Boy, and there were rumors
OF his death. In November, 1886, two
letters were received, the first bearing
date IN December 1885, the second In
July 1886 One of these letters was
brought by Dr.. William Junker, who bad
visited Emin in 1885, and with much
delay, and at great peril, succeeded in
making his way back through the dis
turbed territories to Zanzibar. The
prinoi pal tenure of the pasha's letters was
30 ask for help and supplies, as the
tribes surrounding his territories had
become hostile and threatened to attack
mis- subjects. Henry Stanley, therefore,
was the man called upon, as the best &C
quainted with central Africa, and the
cargers of the journey to conduct this
relief expedition. The Egyptian govern.
ment contributed toward paying the ex-
penses of the expe dition, and large sums
were also proffered oy wealthy individuals
in Eogland and Germany. King Leo
poId of Belgium, who has been generous
patron OF geographical discovery in AT
RIGA, also interested himself in the plan.
Stanley, who had just b9gun course OF
lectures in this country, gave them up
promptly, cancelled all his engage meuts,
and set sail for Europe. February "a
1887, Stanley started from Zanz bar to GO
by sea to the mouth of the Congo, and up
that river to Emin's territory. Hes esti-
ma1ed that the journey would take over
five months. No reliable news from him
has been received since he left the Amid
river 200 miles north of the equator, in
Central Africa, year or so ago.
A cable dispatch speaks of Osman
Digna as "helf European himself" He
is Frenchman, or of French descent
formerly merchant at Saukim. His
name was Vinet before he ebjured it and
his religion TO marry one of the late
Mahdi's numerous daughters. Re should
not be COMPOUNDED with Oliver Pain, the
ommunistic journalist, whose joining OF
the Arabs and subsequent unex planned
d ati, induced friction between France
III England.