Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-12-05

| now known from its source to its bourne. The
| great Congo forest, covering large an area
as France and the Iberian peninsula, we can
now certify to be an absolute fact. The Noun
| tains OF the Noon this time beyond the least
| doubt have been located, and Ruwenzori, The
| Cloud King robed in eternal snow, has been
seen and its TANKS explored and some of its
| shoulders assembled, Mounts Gordon Bennett
and Mackinnon Cones being but great sentries
warding off the approach to the inner area of
| The Cloud King
| THE EXTENT OF THE ALBERT NYANzA.
"On the southeast of the range the connec-
ton 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 noun
/ talns has been traversed, separated by such
/ tracts of pasture lands as would make your
| COW boys out west mad with envy. And right
! under the burning equator we have fed on
\ blackberries and biberres and quenched our
| thirst with crystal water fresh from snow beds
| We have also been able to add nearly six thou
sand square miles of water to Victoria Nyanza.
| Our naturalist will expatiate upon the new
| species OF animals, birds and plants he has dis
| covered. Our surgeon will tell what he knows
OF the climate and its amenities. 1t will take
| US all we know how to say what new store of
| knowledge has been gathered from this unex-
| pected field of discoveries. 1 always sus-
| pected that in the central regions between the
| equatorial lakes something worth seeing would
! be found, but was not prepared for such a
| harvest of new facts.
| FRUITFUL EXPEDITION.
| "This has certainly been the most extraordi-
| nary expedition l have ever led into Africa. A
veritabe divinity seems to have hedged us
| while we journeyed say it with all rever-
| ence. 1t has impeled us whittier it would
| effected its own will. but nevertheless guided
| and protected us. What can you make of this,
| for instances: On August II, 1897 all the Off
| GERS OF the rear column are united at Yambuga.
| They have my letter of instructions before
them, but instead of preparing for the NOR
| rows march to follow our track they decide to
! wait at Yambuga, which decision initiates the
| most awful season any community of men ever
| endured i'll Africa or elsewhere.
1.-THE results are that three-quarters of their
| force die of slow poison. Their commander is
| murdered and the second officer dies soon after
OF sickness and grief. Another officer is wasted
| to skeleton and obliged to return home A
| fourth is sent TO wander aimlessly up and down
| the Congo and the survivor is found in such
! fearful pest hole that We dare not describe its
| horrors. On the same date, $50 miles away
| the officer of the day leads 1893 men of the ad-
yanced column into the bush. loses the path
| and all consciousness of his whereabouts and
| every step he takes only leads him further
astray.
BEsET BY sAvAGEs.
ellis people become frantic, his white COM
panions, vexed and irritated by the sense of
evil around them, cannot devise any expedient
to relieve him. They are surrounded by can
nibals and poison-tipped arrows thin their
numbers Meantime l, in command of the
river column, am anxiously searching up and
down the river in four different directions.
Through forests my scouts are seeking for them,
| but not until the sixth day am successful in
/ finding them.
Taking the same month and the same date
IN 1888, year later, on August II, listen hor-
ror-struck to the tale of the last surviving Off
Ger OF the rear column at Banalya and am told
OF nothing but death and Observation-Disclosures and
| death. see nothing but horrible forms Of
| men smitten with disease-bloated, disfigured
and scarred-while the scene in the camp-in-
| famous for the murder of poor Barttelot barely
| four weeks before-is simply sckening. On
| the same day, 600 miles west of this camp
| Jameson, worn out with fatigue, sickness and
| sorrow, breathed his last.
| ESIIN BEsIEGED.
| "On the next day, August IS, 600 miles east
Emin Pasha and my officer. Jephson, are sud-
| denly surrounded by Infatuated rebels, who
menaced them with loaded rifles and instant
death. But fortunately they relent and only
| make them prisoners to be delivered to the
| mahdists. Having saved Bonncy out of the
| jaws OF death we arrive a second time at Albert
| Nyanza to find Emin Pasha and Jephson pris-
soners, in daily expectation of their doom.
| Jephson's own letters will describe his anxiety.
|
| Egyptian fuSltives under our protection did
| begin to sec that / was only carrying out q
| higher plan than mine. My own designs were
constantly frustrated by unhappy circum-
stances. l endeavored to steer my course as
direct as possible, but there was an unaccountn-
| bic influence at the helm. l gave as much
| goodwill to my duties the strictest honor
would compel. My faith that the purity of NV
| motive deserved success Was firm, but have
been conscious that the issues of every effort
were i'll other hands.
| RECORD OF MIsERIEs.
"NOt one officer who was with me will forget
the miseries he has endured, etevery one that
started from his homo destined to march with
| the advance column and share its wonderful
| adventures is here today safe. sound and well,
| and the Ht7'lH correspondent NAV interview
| them to his hearts content. This is not due to
| me. Lieut.. Stairs was pierced with a poisoned
| arrow like others, but others died and he lives
| The poisoned tip came out from under his
| heart eighteen months after he was pierced
| Jephson was four months prisoner, with guards
| with loaded rifles around him. That they did
not murder him is not due to me-
.'Ihese officers have had to wade through as
| many seventeen streams and broad cxpanses
OF mud and swamp in a day. They have en-
dured a sun that scorched whatever it touched.
multitude of impediments have rutfled their
| tempefs and harrassed their hours They have
| been maddened with the agonies of fierce
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mosphere that medical authority declared to
be deadly. They have faced dangers every
day, and their diet has been all through what
| legal serfs would have declared to be infamous
and abominable, and yet they live
NOT HIS WORK
| ''This is not due to me any more than the
| courage with which they have borne all that
was imposed upon them by their surroundings
| or the CHEEKY energy which they bestowed
ON their work, or the hopeful voices which rang
| In the ears OF deafcning multitude of black
and urged the poor souls on to their goal. The
vulgar will call this luck; unbelievers will call
it chance, but deep down in each heart re-
mains the feeling that Of verify there are
more things in heaven and earth than are
| dreamed of in common philosophy.
| Il must be brief. Numbers of scenes crowd
my memory, and could one but sum them into
pic ture it would have grand interest The
accomplishing heroism of our dark followers,
the brave manhood latent in such uncouth dis
guise, the tenderness We have seen issuing
from nameless entities, the great love animat-
| ing the ignoble, the sacrifice made by the un
| fortunate for one more unfortunate. the reyer-
| ence we have noted in barbarians who even as
ourselves, were inspired with nobleness and in
centives to duty-of all these we could speak if
| we would.
But leave that to the Heralds correspon-
dent who, If he has eyes to see, will see much
for himself, and who, with his gifts of compost
ton, may present a very taking outline of what
/ ha hear nd IL