Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1889-12-25
LETTER FROM STANLEY.
His Journey Across Africa and His
Discoveries.
A SERIES OF THRILLING ExPERT-
ENCES

dated Msuwah, November %, which
was written to the editor st the re-
quest Of the Herald correspondent, who
Is now with the explorer. Mr. Stanley
says: "First Of al / am in perfect
health and feel like a laborer of Sat
urday evening returning home with his
weeks work done, his weeks wages In
his pocket and glad thai tomorrow Is
the Sabbath
Just about three years ago, while
lscturing in New England. a message
came from under the sea bidding me
to hasten and take a commission to re-
lieve Emin Pacha at WadelaI; but as
people generally do with faithful pack
horses, numbers of little trifies, odds,
and ends are piled on over and above
the proper burden. Twenty various
little commissions were added To tie
principal one, each requiring due care
and thought Well, looking back over
what has been ACCOMPLISHED, / see no
reason for any lie irt's diScontent. We
can say We shirked no task and that
good wil, aided by steady effort, en-
abled US TO complete every little job as
well as circumstances permitted.
over and above the happy ending OF
our appointed duties we have not been
unfortunate in geographical discover
les The Aruwimi Is now known from
its source To its bourne. The great
Congo forest, covering as large an area
Is France aud the lberian Peninsula,
we can now certify TO be an absolute
fact. The mountains of the Moon this
time, beyond the least doubt, have been
located, and RuwenZori, the CLOUD
King robed in eternal snow, has been
seen and Its fianks explored, and some
~ ffa oh Ill
don Bennett and Mackinnon Cones
being but giant sentries, warding off
the approach to the inner area OF the
Cloud King
ION the southwest OF the range the
connection between Albert Edward
NyanZa and the Albert NyanZa has
been discovered, and the extent of the
former lake IS now known for the first
time. Range after range of mountains
have been traversed, separated by such
tracts or pasture land as would make
YOUR cowboys out West mad with
envy.
And right under the burning equa-
tor we have fed ON blackberries, and
quenched our thirst with crystal water
fresh from snow beds. We have also
Oeen able to add nearly 5000 square
miles of water to Victoria Nyanza.
.'Our naturalist will expatiate upon
the new species of animals, birds and
plants he had discovered. Our surgeon
will tell what he knows of the climate
and its amenities. 1t Will take us all
wc know how 70 say what new store OF
knowledge has been gathered from this
unexpected field of discoveries.
81 always suspected that in the cen
trail regions between the equatorial
lakes something worth seeing would lie
found, but L was not prepared for such
harvest OF new facts
This has certainly been the most
extraordinary expedition L have ever
led into Africa
"a regular divinity seems to have
hedged US while We journeyed. say
il with all reverence. 1t has impelled
Us whittier 1t would, effected its own
Will, but nevertheless guided us and
protected us.
What can you make of this, for in
stance? On August II, 1887, all the
officers of the rear column are united
At Yambuya- They have my letter of
Instructions before them, but instead
( preparing for the morrow's march to
follow our track. they decide to wait at
Yambuya, which decision initiates the
most awful season any community of
men ever endured in Africa OF elS--
where.
The results are that three-quarters
# their force die OF slow poison Their
commander is murdered and the second
officer dies soon after or sickness and
yrIef. Another officer is wasted to a
skeleton and obliged to return home A
fourth is sent to wander aimleSsly up
md down the Congo, and the survivor
is found in such fearful pest hole that
we dare not describe its horrors
s'On the same date, $50 miles away,
the officer of the day leads 333 men OF
the advanced column into the bush,
Inses the path and all consciousness OF
his whereabouts, and every step he
takes only leafls him further astray.
HIS people become frantic; his white
e.orno,,Dioils. NeXei aud IrriLiLed by the
seus,. of the eyil around them, cannot
devise any eXpedient to relieve MN.
They are surrounded by cannibals, and
pui ,ou-tippel arrows thin their num-
bers.
"MeantIme, /, in command OF the
river column, am anNiously searching
up and down the river III four ulntTent
directions; through forests my scouts
are seeking for them. but not until the
sixth day was l successful In hndlng
them
"Taking the same month and the
same date in 1883, year LATER, on
August 1Ih, L listen. horIot'
strtcEen to the tale of the last survlv-
ing officer of the rear column at Dan
aIvs and am told of nothing but death
,nd disaster disaster and death, death
and disaster, 1 see nothing but horri-
HE forms of men smitten with disease,
bI,ated. disfigured and sc rrei, While
the scene in the camp, IN famous ioi
tbe murder of poor Bartelot Barth'
four weeks before, Is simply sicken'
ing. co ,,,,.s vast nj
| ,Ijs camp- Jameson, worn out VIII
| fatIpue. sickness and sorrow, oreaIhe'
his last eof
.On the next day, August Is, oON
mules east. Emin Pacha and my oincei
Jephson are suddenly surrounded oS
infuriatei rebels, who menace theu
with loaded rifles and mstan
| death but fortunately they reieh
| and only make them prisoners, 10 p'
delivered to the Mahdists.
.sUaying saved Bonny out OF th'
;,vs Of death, we arrive a seconc tiih'
~ Albert NyanZa, TO hnd Enlh dc"|
and Jephson prisoners in daily expeil-'
t ons of their doom: IN sosor;b,
"Jephson's own letters VIII descri1' =.
his anxiety. Not until both were u
nv camp and the Egyptian iugltiEe
under our protection, did L begin 70 Sc
that I Was only carrying out higne
man than mine. My own designs "ei'
constantly frustrated by unhappy oIr "a
cumstances. / endeavored 70 s.ee, =.
S 81. airacf a poSsible, but tner